A lot has changed since the first attempt at renovating our home. Today I’m going to share our plans and talk through changes we’ve made since we gutted the house.
Details in the living room—nothing too crazy but we’re filling in these small windows! If you told me that we’d be doing that a year ago I would have called you crazy! I am obsessed with natural light but the size of these windows and their placement really bother Shawn and I. Since the cabinets were removed by the previous builder (the renovation update is on previous post) we just didn’t see a purpose for them anymore.
The office has some changes that I’m actually super excited about! We originally wanted all glass sliding barn doors that met at the corner of the room, like this:
That was one of my favorite details that we wanted to invest in on our house. But turns out, there was no possible way we could do them. The previous builder told us it was possible, even though he knew it wasn’t with our budget.. LOL. It’s one of those really funny, yet not funny at all situations…
Anyway. Instead, we will have a tempered glass wall and a glass door that leads into the office, still unique and I’m super excited about it!
The last major update for the first floor (and the rest of the house) is that we will be changing our windows from Andersen 100 Series to Pella Impervia. This might sound a little odd because we have 4 Andersen windows.
Here’s why we’re changing them:
From the get-go Shawn and I really really wanted the Pella Impervia series in all black. Our old builder told us he doesn’t have a Pella contact and then later in the renovation admitted he doesn’t like Pella which is essentially why he didn’t want to order them. One day he randomly told us that he ordered the all black Andersen windows (all black was a separate war we had to battle with him). He never let us pick out grids, never went over the sizes, nothing. They randomly installed 4 of them (there’s like 20+ windows in our house), then they broke one and left the slider in the box.. The window installation was SO BAD on the windows they installed. The size of the windows are huge and the Andersen windows ended up being so wobbly.
We did some investigating and found out where the old builder ordered the windows from. Turns out there were a few windows missing from the order and we knew that at least one window was ordered incorrectly on top of another broken. Since there was no guarantee that this order was correct and we didn’t want to take any chances on paying for the rest of the order. Especially because majority of the things the previous builder did was wrong. So we decided to change to our preferred window instead. Pella Impervia is a much sleeker design compared to the Andersen 100 line and the the windows are much sturdier. We’re going to try to sell the slider on craigslist since its new in box.
Super excited to share more with you guys! I hope you enjoy this update!
Hugs,
Christine
