This update has been a long time coming! When we first moved into our home, the formal entry way’s walls and ceiling were a stark and cold white. Before we moved in: Here is our VERY plain entryway a year after we moved in (you can even see the paint sample on the left, hah): […]
Emerald Green Curtains DO exist! Dining Room Update
Someone get me a straight jacket. I GOT THE FANCY CRAP. (a.k.a. the carved curtain rod brackets) You guys are such a bad influence. Or good. Hard to know because we seem to all be in this padded room. Gotta say, I have some of THE MOST AWESOME readers! I posed the question about whether […]
An Antique Oak Ice Box Converted to a Fridge?!
In my ever ongoing quest to find a better fridge than our current behemoth, I’ve been scouring the internet for slim fridges. Somewhere in that search I started getting silly curious and ended up on the far side of the interwebs looking into how an antique ice box works…in the off-chance that we could just […]
Why We’re Fixing Our Stone Foundation with Hydraulic Lime Mortar
We dropped the ball this past summer when it came to fixing up the exterior stone foundation and our front porch. In fact we kicked that ball far, far away. But progress has just been made! In case you’re just now even aware that we have a front porch… …last year the status of our […]
My Favorite Fall 2017 ORC Rooms
If you’re not familiar with it, every Fall and Spring the website Calling it Home hosts what is called the One Room Challenge. Hundreds of gluttons for punishment volunteer bloggers join in to completely transform a whole room in a mere 6 weeks. This year of the Fall 2017 ORC was no small exception for some […]