Molding Inspiration for our New Doorway

March 19, 2012 AT 10:27 am 18 Comments

 

Hello, friends!

I hope you had a great weekend!  Ours was full of basketball games, of course.  AND a trip to the emergency room. 

Adam got a deep cut on the bottom of his foot yesterday afternoon while walking barefoot in a creek. Sad smile

He had to get four shots and three stitches in his foot, and he is hanging out with me today and trying to stay off his foot. 

It was a pretty dramatic scene yesterday, but we are all good today!  Smile

 

Last Friday, I showed you how we tore down a wall to open up the entrance to our new addition.

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Now we have an entryway that we could just cover up with new drywall, or we could use this opportunity to frame out the new entry way with some beautiful molding.

I choose the latter, don’t you?!

So I searched around for some images of what the type of molding that we might be using in our new entryway.

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This one is my favorite.  The top of the doorway is very similar to the trim work we are doing on the windows in our new addition.

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I love this doorway with the transom windows on top.  We are not planning on doing windows in our new doorway, but we do plan to do something like this down the road when we tear down a wall in our kitchen area. 

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This doorway molding is a little more “fancy” than we want, but beautiful!

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The molding in the picture below is the type of molding that we are going to do on all the doorways in our new addition and eventually throughout the house.  (Is that floor gorgeous, or what?!)

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Lots of beautiful molding in the picture below!

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I am working on a post to show you the trim molding my husband installed on our master bedroom windows.  It is absolutely gorgeous, I must say. Smile

 

Have a blessed day!

We Knocked a Wall Down and I LOVE IT!

March 16, 2012 AT 12:03 pm 44 Comments

 

If you guys have been following my blog for a while, you know that we bought a 1970’s 1400 square foot ranch on five acres last June.  We love our location and our property, but the home needed a lot of updating and more space.

 

So last fall, we began adding on to our ranch to create more space for our family of six.

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We wrapped the addition in hardy board siding, and this is what it looks like now…

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Please remember that the exterior of our home will take several years to get it to look like we want it to.

This Spring, we will be painting the entire exterior of our home an off white color.

Eventually, we will be adding a front porch and a two-car garage to the left of the house, both with gabled roofs to match the addition.

 

Now back to the inside of our  home.

This is what our den has looked like for a couple months…

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The place where you see the stairs is where a small bedroom used to be, but now it is the entrance to the upstairs and the master bedroom downstairs.

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Now that the weather is warmer, and we don’t have to worry about the non-heated addition space, we decided to go ahead and tear that wall down.

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So Cy went at it with a hammer this week, and I LOVE how it really opened up the space!

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Now you can see our staircase right when you walk through our front door!

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I know it looks hideous right now ladies, but it’s gonna be fabulous when we are finished!

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Can you picture gorgeous wood stairs with me?

The two doors in the picture below will be removed and patched up with drywall, so we will just have solid walls there.

 

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We are also going to frame out the new opening in the wall with some beautiful thick molding.  It will add a lot of architectural detail.

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Here’s what it looks like if you are standing behind the stairs.  (Ignore my hideous closet, please.) Smile

 

Our den will get an entire new look as well, including the fireplace.  Yay!

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So, here is the difference tearing down the wall made…

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I am thrilled with the results!

 

Have you ever torn down a wall to create a more open feel?

Do you have a wall you would like to tear down?



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