Sara Aschliman featured on Apartment Therapy

 
Sara Aschliman of dwellbeing was featured on Apartment Therapy for the unbelievable renovation of her Goethe home in Cincinnati! Sara is an architect, originally from my hometown, who has vision, style and design skills that I dream about. She has developed some amazing plans for major renovations to our house that we are still hoping to use someday. 

Check out her company dwellbeing here and the Apartment Therapy feature here.  I’ve been meaning to contact Sara for a while to find out where she got the chandelier in this photo and to if she liked the square white sinks in the master bathroom that sit above the countertop?

Flooring by Flor

I came across this simple, modern and ecofriendly tile carpet company called flor.  The concept is genius! Flor has created a product that is versatile, affordable and is made of recycled materials.  It appears to be a product that will meet both our aesthetic and functional needs for the studio remodeling project.  It will cover the majority of the studio, but still expose the painted hard wood around the edges.

Flor tiles come in hundreds of styles and colors.  You can mix and match, colors and textures to design your own rug.  Flor also sells three 6x6 samples for 5.00.  This makes indecisive remodelers very happy and tends to save us money in the long run.  I’ve ordered several samples and they will be here in 7-10 days.  Check out the Flor blog at www.flor.com/blog.

        

        

2010 Remodeling Project #1

Our house was built in 1855 and was originally an Apostolic church. It’s a work in progress.  We’ve taken a four year break from doing any major projects, but we’re ready to get back in the remodeling mode.  We just finished getting replacement windows. It was time.  Our old windows were very inefficient and opened and closed via ropes and weights.  The tax credit is a bonus and we’re hoping to see financial savings in our heating bill too.

Our first project for 2010 is to bring the circa 1960s room that houses our studio into the 21st century. We are starting by covering the wood paneling with a fresh coat of paint.  We’ve spent the first two days of the new year painting and we like the results so far.

Walls		Trim
On the Rocks		Pearly White

We still need to figure out what to do with all the special features labeled in the “before” pictures below.  We are currently searching for a flooring solution that meets my design/style hopes and Kent’s photography needs.  It’s been a challenge, but I’m hopeful we will find something.  There is painted hard wood floor under the carpet that I’d like to leave exposed around the edges, but we are having trouble finding an area rug big enough that is within our budget.  I’m finding a lot of inspiration from younghouselove.com and decor8blog.com.  I hope to be posting the “after” pictures in a couple few weeks.