NAFASI THE BLOG

In the last entry, I searched and found the tiles and cabinetry color that we would be using. Since I now had this information, when I went back home to Rubengera I was able to really put my interior design plan together, so I could make better decisions throughout the rest of the renovation. I knew the ceiling and floors were pretty light, so I had some room to go dark with walls. I also knew that in the Main House I wanted to get a little more sophisticated and neutral (a little more) than our Rubengera home, which was supposed to have a more tropical vacation feel. So I put a board together mostly for the Main House first. Check it out!  The floorplan is very open yet still cozy. And the color palette is more refined. Here is the visualization board for the main room as well. Here you can see in the living room area, I wanted a nice charcoal colored wall anchoring that space, and a very comfortable relaxed feeling sectional. Then in the kitchen using dark cabinetr...

Wow! I need to blog so hard right now. We have been NONstop working on the house for the past 3 weeks, ripping apart everything, and fixing it all back up. We are not completely finished with the renovations yet, but I'll catch you all up here step by step. I'm finally back at home in Rubengera, taking the weekend off of project management, and guess what all I want to do is!? Write and think and talk about our project. 😍 This home renovation is a huge overhaul, and a ton of work. It started off so fast though! Let me show you how in just the first 2 and a half days, knocking down all our walls changed our entire floorplan and opened up the space in both our Main House and the Backyard House. They started on the Backyard House, so I'll walk you through that first. This was it when we first saw it: It is VERY modest, and is meant to be the rooms for guards/cleaners/staff in general to sleep in and use. The landlords call it the 'Boys' Quarters.' This...