Nook Area

We have called this area the Nook, but honestly I am not really sure how this area will be used yet. It's right off the kitchen and the door to the garage. This is what it looked like originally. Giant black iron wood burning stove, lovely brick floor and blue carpet.

I told Chris that the stove and brick floor had to go for sure. It just was something I would never use and seemed like such a hazard with kids. Not to mention that it took up a ton of space in that room. 

Taking out the brick floor proved to be a little more challenging than expected and they ended up using a jack hammer. We had originally planned on just replacing the blue carpet that was there and then the old linoleum in the kitchen but we found a really good deal on some pretty nice laminate at Sams Club so we decided to do everything but the bedrooms which just got new carpet a year ago.

This picture shows the finishing pieces Chris was working on putting on. The door on the left goes to the garage and the door that the wood pieces are bracing against goes outside. The kitchen is to the right and the nook area is facing the outside door.

Chris installed all the flooring and ended up needing to replace the sub flooring where the brick floor had been and a lot of the area around it.

I decided to paint my kitchen yellow but ended up not liking the yellow I picked out once we started painting it on the walls. It just was way too bright. We added a little white to tone it down a little and it looks better. It's still not really the yellow I would have picked but I think it will work just fine. I also had seen on Pinterest that you could whitewash brick so I decided to try it on the wall that was leftover from the stove. There is actually another brick wall on the opposite side of the room but it is the old original brick that it is used on the outside of the house. You don't really see that wall very much so I decided to just leave that one alone.

You can see how depending on the light it looks a little more of a mustard yellow. I think whitewashing the brick helped lighten the tone of the yellow too. It was super messy and I was a little nervous how it would turn out but I like it. I only had to do one coat.

 We patched the hole in the bottom and I finished this on Saturday. We still need to add baseboards, window trim, and crown molding besides switching out the lights and adding some sort of window cover.