Beach House Renovation: More before and after progress-

 

Back today with some long over due before and afters of our beach house renovation progress!

I think we can all agree that most major house renovations always take longer than we first think they will! In our case this is taking waaay longer.

But, we’re finally getting so close to the finish line on this beach house renovation project!

Fingers crossed, we might even make our tentative move in date for the second week in June!

In the meantime, I wanted to share some of the major changes that have taken place since my last update here.

For starters, the bookcase and fireplace on the first floor are both now finished.

The second coat of paint went up (it’s Benjamin Moore White OC – 151) and I LOVE how it looks.

If you’re at all curious, I also LOVE these white paint colors as well!

 

This is a before photo of this same room. I’m thrilled we found a brick, wood burning fireplace behind the granite electric hearth the prior owners had installed above!

 

round glass knobs

Hardware decisions!

First floor cabinetry hardware:

We found some very pretty round glass cabinet knobs. I love how they look so clean and chic on the white cabinet doors (seen in the image above.)

Door hardware:

I also found these amazing crystal round brass door knobs.

They add a great little pop of modern style to the house. Just what we were hoping for!

Bathroom cabinet hardware:

The house has four full baths, including the one in the finished basement.

The amount of hardware choices out there for the bathroom cabinetry almost had me hit some MAJOR design decision paralysis.

But, after hemming and hawing over various shapes and finishes, I made the decision to keep it simple and went with these round knobs in polished nickel.

It’s not that exciting but I feel great about this choice and sometimes you just need to make one and move on! Right? Right!

Moving on…

 

modern crystal and brass door knobs

 

blue grass cloth wallpaper

 

Wallpaper is going up!

Not only is the hardware going in, but it’s SO satisfying to finally see all the wallpaper selections we made go up!

The blue grass cloth wallpaper looks so perfect in the first floor guest bedroom.

I’m also loving how the gray grass cloth wallpaper looks in the master bedroom!

As for the guest bath, I decided to go with this pretty Serena and Lily wallpaper, the one I first mentioned here!

I ordered Les Touches wallpaper for the first floor bath, hopefully going up today!

I’m so anxious to see how this came out.

gray grass cloth wallpaper

 

 

Big difference, the far wall in this before photo is the same wall in the master bedroom.

As you can see, the wallpaper isn’t the only change.

We took down the window treatments, changed the floors and even reconfigured the lay out of the room, creating a true master suite with a walk in closet.

More on that in a future post!

Carrara Hexagon Marble Mosaic Tile in White

New Tile Floors Going In!

 

classic floor tile in cool white

 

All of the new bathroom tile floors are in!

We kept it simple with white tiles in different shapes and sizes for all the bathrooms.

I love the chevron pattern we decided to go with in the master bath.

We ended up doing a lot of work in the master bath. It’s almost a completely different room.

We added a bath tub and a window and ended up changing out everything!

You can see a glimpse of what used to be there in the “before” photo below.

(Don’t miss these tips for making a small bathroom look larger!)

 

bathroom knobs in polished nickel  //  bath tub  //  bath tub faucet //  white wall subway tiles

 

Master bath before

The staircase progress!

 

 

 

custom lucite stairs hand rail in brass

 

The stair case is almost done!

I love how this is coming out. It’s an important feature as you see these stairs as soon as you open the front door.

We added a wall on the right to give the front area more of a foyer entry feel and it allowed us more room in the living area on the other side to hang a flat screen TV.

I was on the fence about adding ship lap to the right wall.

On the one hand, ship lap in a New England beach house makes perfect sense. I do love the look.

On the other hand, it’s SO trendy right now! I’m afraid it’s going to immediately date the house.

So, after looking at countless options we decided to have our contractor simply paint horizontal stripes on this wall. Brilliant, right?! It’s the perfect solution in my mind.

Painted horizontal stripes will create a ship lap affect, but if we get sick of it in a few years, we can just paint right over it!

 

 

That’s it!

Hope to have maybe just one last update before I can start showing some furniture in the house!

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