The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
This past summer when Karl and I were renovating our master bedroom, one of the ideas we came up with was to install hardwired sconces on either side of the bed with a toggle switch on each that we could turn on or off from the bed. Sconces in the bedroom save the limited tabletop […]
Hi all! How’s Winter treating you? Getting projects done despite the cold? We got a head start on our Winter project goals by working to replace our two ugliest light fixtures – woohoo! However, the “look” of the lights we wanted as we shopped around online and in antique stores for beautiful reproduction or even […]
As we draw closer to the end of another year, it’s a time that many of us find ourselves thinking back over everything that happened. For us, it was a year of many “firsts”: our first year in our current beloved foursquare home, first time taking on a restoration of a home, as well as […]
Two weekends ago our front porch was “jacked up” in the most literal sense: both in its bad sinking on one corner, and the jacks we used to support it when work was started to fix it. To bring y’all up to speed, when we bought our home we could see that the one corner […]
Catch up on the renovation progress! Master Plans / Stage 1 / Stage 2-3 / Stage 4 / Stage 5 / Stage 6 / Stage 8 / Stage 9 Dudes, what a week it’s been! I’ve been away staying with family until the dust literally settled with all the floor sanding and staining that’s been going on. I’m home at last now and ready […]
