The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
Hi all! How’s Winter treating you? Getting projects done despite the cold? We got a head start on our Winter project goals by working to replace our two ugliest light fixtures – woohoo! However, the “look” of the lights we wanted as we shopped around online and in antique stores for beautiful reproduction or even […]
Can you believe it, folks?! Fall (and Fall decor) is officially upon us!…which I’m excited about because it is hands-down my favorite season! Fall has the perfect-temperature weather, blue skies, colorful leaves, lots of Autumn festivals (and auctions, hehe)…not to mention my birthday is in the Fall! ;) Just as we’re trading our blouses for […]
So much change has happened in our master bedroom these last few months! We started with a medium-sized room with a built-in closet, orange walls, and old red carpeting. It’s been a few months of working nights and weekends, but now we have a fresh coat of white paint on the walls, dark hardwood floors, […]
Hi all! Did you see our awesome news from earlier this week? Well, with that exciting announcement you can see why we have another driving force to get hustling with renovations to our upstairs bedrooms so that they’re more livable. Up till now we have been using the smallest back bedroom for ourselves – the […]
It’s happened! As of last week, we have our first livable, functional, 75% finished living room! Why 75%? …cause although we sanded and stained the floors and painted the walls (3x because of getting the colors wrong), we still have crown molding and picture rail, furniture, and decor to do. However with some more important […]
