The Lake House Renovation: New Mantel

Our new mantel was installed today.  By the way, I've been spelling mantel wrong my whole life.  Just discovered that about 2 minutes ago.

We used a company that is local, does beautiful work, and met our deadline.  (My friend's shower is this weekend.  Everything has to be finished tomorrow!)

I cannot say enough good things about Burrus and Company.

We met Wade Burrus at a home show back in February.  He is just a super friendly country guy who loves what he does.

We told him that we had this fire place with these weird knobs that we wanted covered rather than holding up the mantel.  It's hard to see in this picture, but the knobs are underneath the old mantel.

Old Mantel

Old Mantel

The main reason we needed them covered was due to us having to put our TV on our fireplace.  The mantel on top of the knobs would have made the TV have to be too high and cause neck strain when watching.

I will say, I've been a major skeptic of putting TVs on fireplaces, but with Wade creating the mantel we needed, I think ours has turned out pretty nice.

He made the mantel where it fits over the existing knobs.  We were able to drop the heigh of the mantel and put the TV where we wanted.

New Mantel

The new mantel is a grown up mantel.  It fits the fireplace so much better.  It also helps to cover the wires.  We are so happy with it.  Though, I'm not happy with watching this Bee Movie for the 18th time.

Have a great weekend!

The Lake House Renovation: Weekend Updates

Time for some more pictures of our latest weekend update!  These rooms are still in progress, but they are starting to come together.  

Guest Bathroom Before

Michael and I debated on what to do about this bathroom.  We considered just removing the wallpaper and painting the walls.  But, I begged and begged to at least consider taking out the tile. Then I begged and begged to at least take the vanity out so they could tile under it.  Then I begged and begged for us to get a new vanity.  Michael agreed, I sold a kidney, and we finally got a new vanity.

We just got it, and they did the tile in February, so for 2 months, we've had nothing in there.  So, guests have to use the bathroom in there and wash their hands in our kitchen.  Can't wait to get it working.  The plumber is coming this week.  Also, it has handles, but they are screwed in on the inside.  I've never seen that before, but seems like smart way to save space in packaging.

I also made a trip to Ikea today and got a shower curtain.  We removed the glass sliding shower door. Unfortunately, there is still damage to the tile bath tile from those, but at least it's covered by the curtain.  If you are ever at my house, you are not allowed to look behind the curtain.  Imagine a perfectly beautiful bathtub.

New Vanity!

Shower Curtain from Ikea

The vanity will not stick out this far.
The back of the vanity needs to be cut for a pipe, so we can't move it any further back right now.  

This was the second bedroom on the main floor.  Presley actually liked the color and was not super happy when she found out her room was changing to a gray color.  She just saw pink.  I saw a shade slightly dimmer than Pepto.  

The room was painted and floored several months ago, but we just now got her a new bed.  

My hope is to paint an old set of chest of drawers a beautiful color to give this room a pop.  Most of her toys are downstairs, so this is more of just the sleeping room.  

This is the color scheme I am thinking might work well.   Something along these lines.  Presley's room will be much more kid friendly, but I like the idea.