Decision Making Madness!

Our Final Master Bathroom choices!

Sorry for the delay in posting, currently we have entered the hardest phase of our remodel.  The work has begun on the original side of the house which means we are in the process of downsizing even more and having much more limited use of that part of the house including the kitchen.  We also have to pack up everything that we stored in the bedroom and kitchen and haul it all over to our already full storage locker, ugh.  Last weekend we had the super fun chore of cleaning out and packing up our driveway storage shed, double ugh.  But, we are getting a brand spanking new & improved shed that will house our new water heater and will be storage for all of our camping gear and surfboards.   

During all of this crazy cleaning & packing madness, we also needed to finalize our electrical plan which was a lot of work but it's done, yippee!  We needed to decide the placement of all of our interior and exterior  lighting  as well as exactly where we wanted all of our light switches and outlets.  We had the hardest time figuring out lighting for our kitchen as we took out the low ceiling and now have a higher one that follows our roofline.  After much debate and some great opinions from our contractor Ron, neighbor Steffani and our electrician John, we finally figured it out!  We just ordered these really cool lights from Sundance for our kitchen.

Meridian Pendant

We ordered 2 to hang over the breakfast bar counter and 1 for over the sink.  I have had these lights in my idea file for over 2 years so it is exciting to finally be able to order them!  In addition, we will have a cable lighting system spanning the length of our ceiling.

We also chose two different sconces for our master bathroom.

This is the Maritime Cage Sconce which will be featured 

over the interior master bedroom/bathroom main doorway.

The next one is called the Modern Sconce which will be above our master bath sinks and one on the wall above the toilet.  Both of these sconces are on sale right now at Restoration Hardware so we snapped them up in a hurry!

These lights were our big splurges, the rest of the house lights will be recycled ones that we used in our house before the remodel as well as cheaper ones from IKEA.  Adam and I will probably be giving each other upgraded light fixtures as gifts for the next few birthdays, anniversaries and xmas holidays!  We actually funded our lighting splurges with the recent sale of two of our favorite things, our vintage stove and Adam's minifish sailboat.  We were sad to see them go but they both went to great homes and we had made the decision to sell them a long time ago.  My friend Karin who has a really neat house full of vintage style ended up purchasing the stove for her future kitchen remodel.  I am so stoked about this as I can still visit my stove and we have already talked about having some baking parties, woohoo!  It was a really difficult decision to sell it after using and loving this stove for 13 years it but it wasn't heat insulated so it was dangerous to have the oven on with a small child in the house.  It also didn't fit in that well with our new plan for a more modern and streamlined kitchen. 

Last year the stove made a great bar for our 4th of July Party!

As for the minifish, Adam bought is several years ago to use during our annual Lake Tahoe summer vacations but it didn't get much use during the rest of the year.  Plus we didn't have a good way of transporting it around so it was time to "get it out".  It was bought by a really nice guy who sails with the Mission Bay Yacht Club so it will be well used.

Mission Bay 2007

Tahoe 2007

Cheers and a fond farewell to the boat and stove!