Cheers to our new normal!

This past weekend was JAM PACKED (I have a feeling I’m going to be saying that about most weekends these days haha)! Our Saturday was a little crazy, but so much fun! We have officially started making design decisions for the bathrooms and boy is it overwhelming. We met with Someone’s in the Kitchen on Saturday morning for about two hours and started making preliminary layout and design decisions for the first three hotel bathrooms that will be on the second floor! This was the first time since we started to even dream about restoring this hotel that we were able to see a 3D preliminary layout of any room and it was so exciting! Also, I should note that Mark and Bekah from Someone’s in the Kitchen make this process so easy; Dane and I always feel less overwhelmed when we are with them, which is a very rare feeling these days!

However, even though starting to design the bathrooms is exciting, what I have learned is that with each new piece of excitement comes some stress. Picking and choosing bathroom tiles, trying to arrange the best bathroom layout, and deciding on an overarching hotel design theme is so fun… until I went home and started to over analyze every decision! Haha! I have decided that in order to make the hotel feel the most consistent and cohesive, I am going to reach out to an interior designer this week to help me finalize the exact look we are aiming for. 

I LOVE the 1920s art deco look, but I feel as though it can be a little too bold and limiting at times, especially when I want the hotel to feel rich and elegant. Finding a balance between art deco and Victorian elegance is going to be my main design challenge, but I’m up for it! The interior designer that I LOVE and who has been my inspiration for the rooms of the hotel is Carley Page Summers (and if you haven’t checked her out on Instagram or her website, you definitely should – she is truly gifted, and her website is carleysummers.com). I’m excited to schedule some time with her to nail down the hotel theme and then share it with all of you! 🙂

And last, but not least, this past Saturday (right after our meeting with Someone’s in the Kitchen) we continued our demo work on the second floor. It is so exciting to see all the progress and to know that we are SO close to being done with the second floor! Our friends and family have helped us so much and we are forever grateful! We are hoping to be done with the second floor by the end of next week and then we can start the third floor, which has even more lath than the second… woohoo! Wish us luck! We’re going to need it… Haha