The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Although white and gray sofas have been trending in the last few years, a brown sofa is also a nice neutral color that you can work with to create just about any color scheme. So even if such a sofa may feel like a dark hole that dictates everything else in the room, it is […]
Some good things have been happening in the dining room since [this post] was made nearly a year ago! Do you all remember this mood board? The mood board for the dining room was based off of the colors found in a peacock feather, along with raw woods and some ‘bling’ brought in using gold and […]
