Can Your Relationship Survive a DIY Home Renovation Project? Yes! Here’s How Ours Did.

Renovating a house with your significant other can be stressful. I know. While overall Brian and I enjoyed the experience of renovating our new house together, there were definitely instances in which we questioned each other’s sanity in regard to design choices. But now that we’re in our new house – and both loving it [...]

“Before” and “Now” Pictures of Our New House!

A reader emailed me yesterday asking for more house renovation photos. I thought I had been doing a good job of sharing our DIY project progress, but then I realized that, while I’ve been updating my renovation album on Facebook often, it has been awhile since I shared photos of our house renovation on the [...]

D-I-Y Done!

In the last month I’ve stripped wallpaper, scraped paint, removed nails and screws and stickers from walls and ceilings, mixed joint compound, spackled walls, sanded walls, primed walls, painted walls, painted trim, dusted, vacuumed, cleaned, dusted, vacuumed, cleaned (yes, again), removed fixtures, become adept at taking down shelves with a crowbar and hammer, sanded floors, [...]

Old House, Vintage Finds

I love history. It’s why I majored in the subject in college. I love discovering things about the past, especially as they pertain to me. So buying a house that was built in 1900 with a lot of things to discover about it has, as you can imagine, been a very exciting experience for me. [...]