The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
It’s hard to get good paint options, especially when you want low-VOC paint that truly is and not simply claiming to be. Up until now our only local paint stores have been Sherwin Williams, Lowes, and Home Depot. As far as our living room goes…they haven’t served us well. (you can review our two previous attempts at […]
You’ve probably noticed on past posts and our ‘about’ page that we refer to our home as an American Foursquare (jump over here for a quick tour). Being the nerd that I am and the fact many of you wonderful peeps are old-house lovers as well, I thought it’d be fun to go a bit […]
We’ve hit another milestone in our restoration of the dining room! Remember those awful 4 layers of wallpaper we had to scrape away and send back to the abyss whence it came? …and then being left with walls of wallpaper glue to wipe off? (learn the method we found worked) Well, if this were a […]
I was hoping we’d have more progress made in our living room since failing for the second time with a paint color, but alas, it is not so (obviously). Thus, up this post goes, and here’s hoping that it’s three times the charm…meanwhile I’ll go bury myself into a good Korean variety show to mellow […]
After all our progress with our floors and then the bit of a break from house projects the holidays provided, this past weekend we were ready to jump back in with the next project: painting our living room. [learn how to prep a room before painting] For the most part, I feel rather confident when […]
