Home Renovations - Breakfast Area

First up on our renovation list: The Breakfast Nook

First, let me give you a little background info on our home. 

It was built in 1998.

Cozy but open floor plan on main level.

This was actually the first house we looked at (isn't that always the case?).

When we left the house we didn't want it because it would require WAY more work than we wanted to invest... HA HA. OHH the irony...

BUT in the end we fell in love with the potential, the neighborhood, the school district, and the area in general.

I'm starting with the breakfast nook because when I saw this room of windows online, I knew we HAD to look at this house. So, here it is....

   

 

Just a little different, eh?

This room is right off the kitchen and over looks the yard and pool :)

  

I mean, who doesn't dream of a room full of windows??? In LOVE

OK... we knew we wanted to use this area for our breakfast table because the "designated" area for it was right in the middle of a walkway. HELLO, NOT good for toddlers. Also, we didn't want to use it as a "sitting room" because it's about 5 steps from the living room, which makes no sense to me. You'll see on here that I'm ALL about making your home work for your family.

My husband and I agreed to renovate this house and make it exactly what we wanted. Oh, by "we," I mean our wonderful contractor!

This is my list of problems with this room:

1. paint color

2. FAN

3. GREEN tile?!?!?

I can appreciate the functionality of a fan in a sunroom, but must they be SO ugly? This one especially.

The green tile there's just no excuse for.

A large chunk of the renovation was spent on new wood flooring throughout the entire house, bedrooms included. We wanted it to be seamless and we're on a slab, so we went with an engineered hardwood.

Next, PAINT.

I am horrible about making paint decisions. Embarrassingly, I own almost every shade of gray Sherwin Williams offers in a sample size. We debated paint colors for a while. I wanted to take advantage of all the natural light this house offers and go with a pale gray.

I wanted that "almost white but barely gray but a true gray with no blue or green undertones" GRAY.

Turns out, that's kind of a tall order...

This was super important to me as it was going to be the main paint color throughout the entire house. So after about 20 Sherwin Williams paint samples, we finally settled on a color.

A BEHR color! Ha

Silver Drop by Behr and I haven't regretted it for one second. It looks even lighter in person and helps the house feel super bright! L-O-V-E it

I chose this light fixture from Ballard, found here, because it was open and it uses Edison bulbs!

We used our dining room table from our previous house because it is long and plank which goes with my rustic theme. We also got these chairs at Ballard, found here, to add to the rustic feel.

P.S. Ballard Customer Service = AMAZING

Our first light came shattered and they sent me a new one in no time and were great about it.

I realized when I was writing this post that I didn't have a full finished picture with the table included. I do have this one....

This is what the table usually looks like:

Towels, misc. bags, baby food, high chair, Austin chasing flies with a chainsaw (yes, you read that right), Bruiser eating crumbs from the baby's meal. 

Like I said, this is a real house with 2 boys (3 including my husband).

It's busy.

It's loud.

It's messy.

It's loved.