The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
Happy 2016 y’all! Hope everyone’s year is off to a good start. So far ours has been a gain in square footage – for the first time since we moved into our home 2 months ago, we are able to exist on the main floor! With the exception of our kitchen, we have been living […]
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 […]
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 […]
In the ongoing project of refinishing our floors, there are certain things that we had to decide whether or not they needed to go. One major decision of something to keep or not were these built-ins. Now one may look at them and go, “oh, but those look ok”, “ooo, window seat!” or “shelves are […]
