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The 2018 renovation of one bathroom, laundry room and mudroom

​When I saw Jenna Da Sie’s topic this week, I couldn’t say no to joining! She asked:

If you could renovate one room in your house, which one would it be and why?

If you joined me from Clair Brett, welcome!

One reason I was excited to see this topic is that we are actually in the middle of a minor renovation right now. Well, I call it minor, but I’m not doing any of the work. It is keeping Mr. C busy, though!

Also, I love renovating in general. We’ve lived in our current home twenty-five years, and we have renovated all the bathrooms (one of them twice!), the family room (three times), and the kitchen. And I’m not just talking paint and new flooring (we’ve done that in every room of the house more than once). I’m talking taking walls down and putting them back up in new places. For some reason, the chaos and clutter of renovating doesn’t bother me at all, and the results are always worth it. Luckily, Mr. C and his brother love this kind of hands on work—and they are good at it—so we don’t have to hire people other than for some of the more specialized tasks.

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To answer Jenna’s question though –

Because we’ve done so much work around the house already, there isn’t one room that really needs to be renovated. But we redesigned the kitchen about twelve years ago, and I’ve been wanting to update the countertop and backsplash for a little while, so that’s what we’re doing. I still love the cabinets and the layout, and doing these two things should make it look brand new again.

Be sure to hop over to Leslie Hachtel now and see what room she’d like to redo in her home!

Ah, the joy of seeing drywall! No turning back now!

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