Camper to Container Home

Hey guys, sorry it's been forever!  I Love my Kitchen! Our awesome neighbor built our cabinets, and they are very simple, but SOLID like every single other thing this house is. I wanted to try a two tone look, with the cabinets stained, and the doors painted. I lived with them that way for about 2 years, but wasn't in love with the look.  I put shelf paper on the outside of the drawers.😍 The windows are not attached to the containers at all, except with spray foam sealer, they are attached to the framework for the siding. So we sealed the gaps in the container walls, and then attached the trim to the window framing. There are no screws attaching the trim to the containers. I lived without trim for several months.  Added the trim! We also used crates for open shelving. Later my mom helped me put up open shelving using privacy fencing and iron brackets.  The windows are so deep because the siding is build on the pole style framework around the house. Makes for great additional s

 Hey everyone! So, I decided to post one or two update pictures of our foyer. Fall is here and that means we move the wood rack into the house. My son welded up a new one, since the one we got at the (unnamed) farm store only lasted 2 seasons.  I also added a lamp, and it warms up the entryway so nicely.  We found our wood stove in northern Arkansas. From what we can figure out, it was cast in the 1930s. It is not airtight, so the temperature fluctuates quite a bit.  When you walk through the foyer into the great room, the wood stove is on your right.  The dining room is beyond it and the living room area is to your left. I have my grandma's china hutch, along with the dishes we used many years around the Sunday lunch table. I have added my own china as well. Behind the dining table is our bar. I love how it opens up the kitchen area, and makes a nice place for company to sit while I'm finishing up dinner! We have had our dining table since we had a house fire just 2 years afte

Hey there! I know it's been forever! I have so much to share! We have gotten so much done, and I'm so ready to burn my paint brushes! Haha, not really, because I have lots of other projects that I can't wait to get done once I'm finished with our house.  I am going to do a series of posts detailing different rooms with maybe some "before" pictures to remind me how thankful I am of where we've come from! (I didn't do any this time, but I plan to in the future.) I used to be very much a grey walls/stark white trim person. And I still like those colors, but for this house I have gravitated toward the warmer creams and ivory for my walls, along with medium grey for my trim. This color scheme is very rich, cozy and lends itself to my rustic French country (sortof) decorating style that also has a bit of industrial to go along.  Here are our large, beautiful, double front doors. I went with cream for the trim as well, because the exterior trim is the same co

Hey everyone, I want to show you guys some of the framing we have done on the interior and how it came together with some pictures before and after. I'm back tracking a bit because I already shared the concrete with you. For a long time after we cut the holes in the floors and ceilings of the containers we had (a couple of rickety extension) ladders connecting the floors!  Then we got the stairs framed in (not finished though, that just happened a couple of months ago!) The first picture below is looking at the stairwell from my kitchen. The picture below is looking at the stairwell from our master closet. You can see the reading nook window at the top of the picture.  We framed in walls inside the first container (the one with the front doors) to create the laundry room, powder room (complete with extra shower), and our master bath. We put the smaller rooms inside the containers. We used the larger width between the containers for the maste

We got our siding put up!! I already told yall that we wanted the outside of the house to look like a traditional house. We left a lot of the interior "container walls" without drywalling them. So we decided that metal siding was our most economical choice and it has a 30 year warranty on paint.  We attached it to the pole barn style framing I told you guys about. My husband wanted the exterior to be blue and I wanted cream trim. It turned out very nice.