I chose this piece not only for it’s visual appeal, but it went with the theme of nature being my artwork. Living Room Design: I went with metallics and and used the colors in the artwork that I found from Pier 1 for my design inspiration. Summer have replaced the old front door and side lights, with brand new custom mahogany double doors with diamond beveled glass.Ĭustom Front Doors: Mahogany with custom stain, Glass is diamond and beveled glass Doors by Creative Millwork in St.
The “ before” photo was taken before they purchased the home. This is a “Before & After” photo of Summer’s foyer. They are alternating Tuscan Round Hammered plain bar, and the double sphere bar.ĭecor:The foyer table is from Z Gallerie, the chair, pillow, table decor, and lamp all from HomeGoods. Stairway Spindles:The iron spindles are from and are from the Tuscan round hammered collection. My goal is to create a home that is just as comfortable and livable is it is beautiful to look at.īlack Staircase Paint: Black Beauty by Benjamin Moore with a high gloss varnish.Īll Trim: Benjamin Moore White in Satin Finish. I love a little bit of Parisian influenced glamour with some vintage and some rustic touches.
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The windows act as artwork, providing different pops of color all year long. Because we live in the Midwest, we get to experience all 4 seasons. We have over 100 windows in our home and I wanted the “color” in my home to come from what shows through them. Style Inspiration: I chose neutrals like gray and shades of white for a chic and calming effect and pops of bold black for some elegant drama. My love for interior design has grown so much that I have turned it into a part time career, helping other people turn their houses into their dream homes!” Although we still have to gut 3 more baths, create my home office, and re-do our exterior, I am constantly trying to perfect what we’ve already done. Since we’ve moved in, we have gutted and completed 3 of the 6 bathrooms, a whole new kitchen, changed flooring, gutted and repainted much of our main floor and some of our second floor, and finished the whole basement. After a lot of convincing, my sweet husband agreed and we began our 3 year journey to turn our house into what it is today. We left the house that day talking about how we didn’t want to renovate our next home, but I couldn’t stop designing this house in my head and picturing my family living in it! With our 2 daughters being 5 and 6 at the time and me being a stay at home mom, something excited me about this project. The footprint of the house was exactly what I was looking for. The whole house had orange stained oak woodwork and floors, some tile floors, ivory carpeting, a red brick fireplace in the family room, some stained glass windows, many oak built-ins, a large kitchen with oak cabinetry and 1980s appliances, bathrooms with huge tub decks, hair dryers in bathrooms that were attached to the walls, and even a bidet.Įven though this house wasn’t “us” in its current state, I saw spaces that could be transformed. The homeowners custom built the house in 1988 and it looked as if it were a time capsule of that year. After talking to the realtor, we found out that the house was for sale for 6 YEARS! The house was a 5,000 sq ft fixer upper with a 2,500 sq ft unfinished basement, that no one wanted. We walked in and my heart immediately sank…the house was in need of a total gut job. We pulled up and got out of the car and I actually said, “I think we may have found the house of our dreams!” Those signs led us to an area that we didn’t even know existed! At the end of a street, alone on a cul-de-sac, sat a stately custom built Georgian house. We saw many homes that were spacious and nice, but nothing seemed like “us.”Īfter a few months of searching, we followed some open house signs about a mile and a half away from our current home. We were hoping to find a completed home that was fairly new. Fast forward to spring of 2013 and we were ready to move again. We got married in 2003, had 2 daughters, and moved twice.
Little did I know that one day, that would change!
I loved our beautiful homes that my parents created, but fashion was more my thing than interior design. “With a self-taught interior designer for a mother, and a very handy father, I grew up living through numerous home renovations. Here, Summer shares the trajectory of transforming a 1980s fixer-upper into a modern dream home: I immediately started to follow her and soon invited her to share her home on the blog. I discovered Summer from Sumhouse_Sumwear, after she tagged me in one of her pictures shared on Instagram.
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I have said before that our new series “Beautiful Homes of Instagram” would be featured bi-weekly, but since what we truly have in life is “now”, I couldn’t wait any longer to share this extraordinary home.
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