The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
I never thought it would happen so quickly, but it did! Remember my mood board for our new living room that had some very specific harder-to-find antique furniture? To be precise, see the wood and marble coffee table in the middle? Well now it’s sitting in the middle of our living room! All of this […]
Our thermostat was dying. Several times over this past winter our heat would kick-off because the thermostat would randomly kick-the-bucket. One morning we woke up to find the heat had gone off sometime in the night and our home was a chilly 52 (Fahrenheit) degrees! We soon learned that in order to restart the heat […]
If you’re following along on Instagram you know some other exciting news is that in one evening last week we were able to knock out a project from start to finish: our entryway light! Goodness, do you know how good it feels to get a project done in one evening?! With so many large home projects to tackle, […]
Since posting our review of our England sofa, it has become one of the most popular and still-discussed posts on this blog. The most common question I receive is how well our sofa is holding up with each passing year and if we still recommend England. Therefore, now that 3 years have passed since it […]
Have you ever gotten to a point where you’ve just had enough with how bad something looks in your house that you one day decide “screw research or planning”, brandish your paint brush and tools and tackle it? That’s what just happened when I declared war on our faux brick chimney. It’s actually where the […]
