The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
Over the course of the past year we’ve made some good progress on the house and feel relatively confident about tackling the remaining rooms. But the kitchen, for reasons I’ll go into in just a bit, has left us scratching our heads and we know we need expert input and help for this room. Let […]
I’ve been spending most of January catching up from the holidays and reflecting a bit on what I want to focus on for this new year. I’ve also been feeling the strong “urge to purge”. Any one else feeling the need to PURGE ALL THE THINGS in your home this time of year? I get […]
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): […]
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 […]
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 […]
