Glass and Stone

Wow, so I realized today it has been over a week since I last blogged about anything to do with the house.. SORRY!!!!

We have been crazy busy around the house getting ready for our little one's arrival. With that being said so much work has been done. We are trying to get as much done as we can as the little one could come any day now and getting things done is a lot easier with a toddler that likes to "help" then with a toddler that wants to help and a new born that wants to be held or fed or changed 24/7!

One big thing that still needed to be done was our kitchen backsplash! We had purchased the tile from Lowes back in December about 4 weeks before we closed on the house. We knew exactly the kind of feeling and vibe we wanted in our kitchen and we found the perfect tile!

We bought enough to cover 23sq.ft it cost us about $251.

This bringing our total kitchen update price to about $481!!!! So much better then the $1000's we could have spent!

So for anyone looking for a way to update their kitchen without breaking the bank Chris and I both fully recommend using the Rustoleum Cabinet Transformation and retiling your backsplash! It takes some work and time but so worth it!!

Here is a look at what our kitchen looked like the day we closed on the house....

Before anything was done

Here is the kitchen NOW!

I know we have said it before but we are so grateful to have so many handy people around us, and this project could not have been done without the help of my amazing father in law!

He came up to help and ended up doing most of the work since Chris was trying to fix our still leaking bathtub :(

We are both so pleased with how this turned out, we picked this tile because it looked modern, the glass gave it a little more feminine feel but the stone gave it the masculine feel that Chris wanted. The color also gives it a masculine feeling, and Chris loves to cook so I wanted to make sure he could do that in a space that he enjoyed!

We went with a gray grout, it blends with the tile but also makes the tile stand out, White would have been to much and would have pulled your focus from the tile to the grout.

You have probably noticed a "GRAY" theme in the house, our old house had a lot of brown, which I felt was really hard to match things to or to introduce new colors. Gray gives us the chance to play with fun patterns and other fun bright colors! We can add pops of bright blue, or yellow and it doesn't look at out of place because of the neutral background!

One pop of color you will always find in our kitchen is my orange kettle that Chris got for me our first Christmas as a married couple, and our green and purple mugs that are always by the coffee maker!

We have a busy weekend ahead of us... My parents are in town so we are going to be getting the guest room all set up! Well the bed at least! I have decided on colors or anything for that room and I am not rushing into it! I have a feeling I will be doing a fun accent wall, like in our master bedroom, but only time will tell!