Our home featured on Retro Renovation blog today

In case some of you are stopping by for the first time, due to a mention in today's Retro Renovation post titled Design Ideas From 7 Mid Century Living Rooms, I wanted to share a little bit about the Hibbard House with you.

We purchased our home in May of 2005, and it had the word 'renovation' all over it. This wasn't our first home (we still own our 1st home, a 1959 traditional ranch home), 

but this was our first attempt at renovation.

The home was sold to us by the original owner, who bought it in 1963. Our home was built by Allied Construction and the architect was Charles Schreiber. 

The home was fairly original inside, but the home was in very rough shape. Before the house could even be appraised, we had to paint walls, install temporary flooring and clean up the landscaping. Check out our Flickr album with BEFORE photos.

The home was barely habitable during renovation, but we managed to live in the home through it all (and not kill each other).

We did a lot of work to the house over the last 5 years, including new plumbing, new electrical, new roof, new kitchen, new bathrooms, new landscaping, new paint, new flooring, new windows, new doors, new gates, new garage, new additions and a new pool house/casita. We tried to preserve what we could, and if we couldn't, we renovated with 'retro' in mind. We have over 1,200 before, during and after photos of our home on our Hibbard House Collection on Flickr. We restored the exterior color of the home, by taking a paint chip to Home Depot. We used birch plywood to create the new kitchen, matching the same material originally used for the cabinets (My husband, Matt Hibbard, of Hibbard Custom built the kitchen with raw lumber). We took out popcorn ceilings and installed v-grooved birch plywood ceilings. We created a 35' wall of glass, where there used to be block. We did a lot of fun stuff to jazz up the house and keep it retro, but modern.

Mr. Hibbard got real dirty during our renovation

Here is are some before and after shots:

We finally finished the pool house/casita

We decorated the family room

 We built a patio cover

 Here is the patio cover at night

 Finished pool house at night

We've been honored to share our home with Sunset Magazine in the July 2010 issue.

We also opened our home for the Modern Phoenix annual home tour in 2008.

Glad you stopped by to check out HibbardKitchen!

Spring has sprung @ The Hibbard House

The smell of orange, tangelo and grapefruit blossoms was amazing today. We kept all the doors and windows opened today and ate our meals outside on the back patio. This is the truly the best part of living in Arizona. The trees start to bloom, the weather is beautiful and you actually want to spend time outside. Today was the first day of spring and our yard is starting to come to life!

Been working on the house enjoying the start of spring!

We've been busy trying to get some small projects done around the house. We're focusing our attention on the pool house, as it has the most outstanding projects right now. Today we painting some trim, touched up the paint inside and out, framed out the outside of the AC unit, trimmed out the door opening for the barn door and played around with the furniture we have for the space. I ordered a new rug for the pool house, which arrived this afternoon. And, I got a stainless steel utility cart to use for our kitchen area. Next order of business is to install the barn door hardware and the custom birch plywood door Matt is making for me.

Love the new bread box

Love the new bread box
Originally uploaded by Fifilynn

I picked up this up at Target today...good to hide all of Matt's bread.

Framed some prints from The Little Friends of Printmaking for the living room and added yellow accents

Framed some prints from The Little Friends of Printmaking for the living room and added yellow accents
Originally uploaded by Fifilynn

I might be obsessed with citrus. I love citrus flavors, but I also love the colors. I have had my fix of lime and apple green. I have now moved on to yellow in the living room and orange in the kitchen. I now have an orchard assortment of colors throughout the house!