The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
Lemme tell ya, restoring an old home or renovating a fixer upper is never a sprint, and always a marathon…unless you’re HGTV of course. Ugh. But our dining room renovation has been a work in progress from the time we moved in over a year-and-a-half ago. Within the first few months after moving in we took […]
As we draw closer to the end of another year, it’s a time that many of us find ourselves thinking back over everything that happened. For us, it was a year of many “firsts”: our first year in our current beloved foursquare home, first time taking on a restoration of a home, as well as […]
Woo boy, have we been busy! So busy that I haven’t even been able to sit down and catch y’all up on how things are going in the master bedroom/closet in a little while! The reality is that we actually moved into our master bedroom/closet nearly two weeks ago! I can’t tell you how wonderful […]
Yes fellow Doctor Who geeks, we went completely Dalek on our built-ins. (go here for “before” pix) Cue the carnage: Karl unbolting the pipe from the 100+ year-old floors me, taking off the hinged radiator covers #ijustwantplaster the radiator is frreeeeeee! Trust me when I say this: it looks SO. MUCH. BETTER. The room feels […]
