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): […]
Emerald Green Curtains DO exist! Dining Room Update
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 […]
An Antique Oak Ice Box Converted to a Fridge?!
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 […]
Why We’re Fixing Our Stone Foundation with Hydraulic Lime Mortar
We dropped the ball this past summer when it came to fixing up the exterior stone foundation and our front porch. In fact we kicked that ball far, far away. But progress has just been made! In case you’re just now even aware that we have a front porch… …last year the status of our […]
Make a Small Kitchen Look Bigger: 5 Design Ideas
We’ve been covering a lot of ground these last few weeks in designing and remodeling your unique kitchen. It’s hard, right? So much ridiculous thought and detail has to go into it that it can make you feel a bit batty if you’re asked to make one more frickin’ decision between brass or copper door […]