The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
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 […]
Our thermostat was dying. Several times over this past winter our heat would kick-off because the thermostat would randomly kick-the-bucket. One morning we woke up to find the heat had gone off sometime in the night and our home was a chilly 52 (Fahrenheit) degrees! We soon learned that in order to restart the heat […]
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 […]
Have you ever gotten to a point where you’ve just had enough with how bad something looks in your house that you one day decide “screw research or planning”, brandish your paint brush and tools and tackle it? That’s what just happened when I declared war on our faux brick chimney. It’s actually where the […]
The first week we lived in our new home was an adventure, and not just in doing floor sanding for the first time. We had gone to settlement with our cars packed with clothes, tools, cleaning supplies, food, bedsheets, pillows, and an air mattress. With the exception of a special haul by Karl’s parents with […]
