The ups & downs of living in & restoring our 100+ old Victorian house
Lemme tell ya, restoring an old home or renovating a fixer upper is never a sprint, and always a marathon…unless you’re HGTV of course. Ugh. But our dining room renovation has been a work in progress from the time we moved in over a year-and-a-half ago. Within the first few months after moving in we took […]
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 […]
Hi all! Did you see our awesome news from earlier this week? Well, with that exciting announcement you can see why we have another driving force to get hustling with renovations to our upstairs bedrooms so that they’re more livable. Up till now we have been using the smallest back bedroom for ourselves – the […]
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 […]
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 […]
