StyleBurbia

Hello there! I know.  I know. It's been soooooo long since we last spoke. The new job is kicking my arse.  Luckily I met my first big deadline and I now have time to devote to my 3rd child, StyleBurbia. There has been some progression on the house since we last spoke. So, here we are. Remember the inspiration for my powder room? If not, let's take a lookie. The great thing about inspiration is that you start with an idea and you go with it.  Sometimes you get something really close to your inspiration, but if things happen more organically you end up with something completely different with your personal touches. Ok. This is what the powder room looked like before we bought the house. Nothing wrong with it, but definitely more traditional than our taste.  Anyone want to buy a hand painted sink? Remember how many mosaic tiles I looked at? For a refresher course, take a look { here } and { here }. ...

  Finally!    We moved in last Saturday. It feels great. More unpacking to do. More projects to finish, but at least we are in.   We kept going back and forth on what to do in our powder room.     At first I was going to do a wall with tile like this:       this:      or this:         Let's just say that a small wall with one of those tiles would cost A LOT and though we were fine spending it on this space, our budget was shrinking by the minute.     So we went back to the lovely Aileen at Porcelanosa and came up with other options:     These two options were lovely, but didn't have a wow factor:       We pretty quickly decided on the floor that we liked. It was cool because we brought the floor tile and the tile that resembled our vanity and mixed and matched it with different wall t...

Hello there lovies! Did you have a nice long weekend? So many things to still do and we are coming down to the wire. The kitchen renovation is well on it's way. The walls and ceiling are up, the sub floor is down.  Electrical and plumbing are done.  The hardwood floor is going to be installed this week, so we should be ready to install our kitchen cabinets next week. We still need to: Pick out our granite counter top Pick out our kitchen faucets Figure out what we are doing for the back splash in the kitchen Pick out lighting for above the sink Pick out sconces for the sun room off of the kitchen It would also be nice to figure out what we are doing for the accent wall in the guest bath off of the kitchen and to pick out a tile for the floor and light for that same bathroom. Luckily we have already: Picked out our sinks and.... um.... Oh. Wait. We must have done something. Oh, yes- picked out our appliances, our washer and dryer (our ...

Hello there! I hope you have a lovely weekend. On Friday, I had a long list of things that I wanted to work on for the house this weekend including picking the granite for the kitchen island and counter tops; picking a back splash for the kitchen, picking a vanity for the guest bathroom and figuring out what I was doing for an accent wall for the same bathroom.  I also wanted to pick out a faucet for the kitchen, but that item didn't make it on to the agenda AT ALL and though I was thinking of the granite, we didn't get around to doing that either.  The problem with a lot of design stores for kitchen and bathrooms is that they have limited hours on Saturdays and are usually closed on Sundays.  So you have to jam pack a ton of stuff from 9 am to 3 pm on a Saturday. I wanted to pick the granite counter top and then work from there, but sometimes, what you plan isn't what works out.  So we ended up looking at the back splash and tiles for...