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, [...]

Mom & Audrey’s Ann Taylor dress choices for my wedding! {Video}

To celebrate the fact that today we are exactly 7 months away from July 14, 2012 (that’s the day Brian and I are getting married, of course), I want to share the Ann Taylor dresses Mom and Audrey will be wearing as Mother of the Bride and Matron of Honor, respectively. Last week I decided [...]

My Ann Taylor wedding dress: we have a winner!

Today was such an exciting day… Mom and Audrey tried on and chose their Mother of the Bride and Matron of Honor dresses, respectively, from Ann Taylor. I am going to be putting a video together to show their options and their choices (LOVE them), but first I wanted to share my wedding dress choice! [...]

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. [...]

An Ann Taylor Wedding Dress – the perfect choice for my wedding attire! {Plus Video}

Shortly after I met Brian in August 2009, we started dating. And soon after that, I realized that he would make an amazing husband. In May of this year, Brian proposed to me. I, of course, said yes, and the wedding plans began. We were able to make a decision about the wedding date and [...]

Sanding walls: an unexpectedly fun date night activity

Last night, Brian and I had a two-hour date at the new house. Sure, we were sanding walls while dressed in our working-on-the-house clothes, and wearing safety glasses and dust masks (not exactly typical “date night” apparel)… …but we actually had a great time. With Christmas music playing in the background, we were spending time [...]

Home Renovation Project: Two Rooms Done (and Learning To Compromise On Paint Colors)

If you’re a regular reader, you know I’m crazy about Brian. Like, I love the guy beyond words. But during this home renovation project we’ve got going on, there have been a few times that he’s driven me a little bit crazy. Like when he suggested that we make this room our designated “demo room” [...]

Video Tour of our House’s Second Unit (2nd & 3rd Floors)

Brian and I gave a tour of the first floor of our new home the other day. Let’s be honest – it could’ve used a little more energy. So for the tour of the second unit of our home (second and third floors), I thought I’d include the excitement value that only four brothers can [...]

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