The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
Catch up on the renovation progress! Master Plans / Stage 1 / Stage 2-3 / Stage 4 / Stage 5 / Stage 7 Hello peeps! Our master bedroom is really beginning to take shape now with a paint color on the walls other than orange and yellow! Here’s a quick before of the bedroom with the drywall up and the former orange walls: […]
Catch up on the renovation progress! Master Plans / Stage 1 / Stage 2-3 / Stage 4 / Stage 6 / Stage 7 Goodness, why does summer go so fast?! How can it be the beginning of July already?! …and will we really get this master bedroom done before baby girl comes? Progress has been steady though. If you’ve been following via […]
Week 4 of the master bedroom and closet renovation! Yipes. Our original estimation for finishing was 4-6 weeks, but something tells me that at our current pace we’ll be lucky to make it in 8 weeks. However, wall demo is done – wooo! With that stage of the process behind us, this past week Karl and […]
A deadline is sometimes the best kick-in-the-butt you need to get something done. Right now we’re kicking it into gear with getting our floor sanding done as we’ve scheduled to have the floors stained on Tuesday. As in, the 22nd. As in…tomorrow. Yikes. Note: This post was intended to go up this past Monday (21st), but […]
After many hour scraping (and aching), it has come to my attention that to remove wallpaper means to be in battle. I feel like I need to give a general PSA about this: if you are considering using wallpaper, for the love of all that is good, DON’T. Those pretty wallpapers that lure you in […]
