Happy Holidays 2013

It has been way too long since our last post! We will be finishing up our tutorials and remodeling posts soon, but for now we wanted to wish everyone the Happiest of Holidays! We are so fortunate to have such wonderful family and friends, we can't wait to spend time with you all!

Merry Christmas!

Happy Holidays!

Rock Chalk!

Not everyone was excited to take pictures :)

And since we have done so much work to the house this year, we thought we would dress it up for the holidays. Enjoy :)

A view of the main tree

Dining Room

DIY Wreath

Christmas tree in the main room

Mantle shot

Decorations everywhere :)

Even Tequila has a stocking...and yes, sports are always on at our house :)

I love glass jars

Another view of our main tree

Wedding album

Sara's favorite decoration from her parents/grandparent's house

Had to give the island some love too :)

From our family to yours, lots of love to you and yours. Happy Holidays!

XOXO,

Sara Schorr

Kitchen Island DIY - How we created our dream kitchen island for under $80 (Part 2)

Welcome back to the second half of How we created our dream kitchen island for under $80. I just updated some of the photos because apparently this page was down for awhile, so I apologize for any delays.

We left off with Part 1 where we cut down and started painting the cabinet section of our new island. The next piece of the puzzle was determining how big we wanted the island to be. For me, I wanted the island to be the center and showpiece of our kitchen and our home. We spend so much time in the kitchen and I never have enough counter space. In order to measure out how big we wanted the island to be, I needed to decide what I wanted to do for one or both sides. After looking at several photos online, I decided I wanted some sort of bookshelf on one of the sides to hold cookbooks, photos, kitchen items, etc. and the other side to be pretty open for seating.

Then I stumbled upon Ana White's Modern Craft Table and loved the three sided bookshelves she used as legs. Since I wanted one side of the island open for seating, so we only needed one and figured I could convince Brian that building just one would be a cinch!

Now before we could get building, we had to plot out where the island would go and the best length of the side bookshelf. We had the space to bring it out about 4.5 feet and I figured, go big or go home!