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The hallway makeover (and part 2 of stripping the floors)
After stripping the gunk off the hallway floor, it needed to be sanded. I’m very glad I ended up sanding them down a little too, it is so much softer to walk on. The sanding didn’t help much with the...
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Bedroom update
Monday, around lunch time, I posted our platform bed for sale and we had a full-price offer almost immediately, for delivery yesterday. So I went straight to work dismantling it and building the new...
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A small bathroom update and some unfortunate news
Looong absence, huh? I’ve been working on a few small projects, but we’ve just had a really, really busy summer. I finally finished patching and re-painting the bathroom ceiling. For a couple years,...
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A cheap and easy faux heaboard
In my last post about our situation, selling the house was a possibility. Now it’s pretty much a sure thing. I’ll talk more about it in the coming weeks. But for now, I’m going to show you our...
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My fix for a peeling chalkboard
We’ve had this little peel-and-stick chalkboard in the mud room/hallway/weird spot by the kitchen for years, and it was actually used all the time. Every week, when I plan our meals, they get listed...
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Removing paint from vintage hardware
Some of the few original details our Victorian still has are the doors and door hardware. But the door knob plates (I’m sure there’s some proper term for them) in the mud room/hallway/weird spot...
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Turning Moroccan lanterns into hanging bedside lamps
Sometime around 2 years ago, I picked up two pretty little Moroccan lanterns for $15 each from Home Goods. I had visions of them being real, hanging lights instead of just candle holders. I’m not...
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Re-painting the kitchen cabinets
The base cabinets in our kitchen looked horrible. It wasn’t the cabinets themselves, it was the finish. As with much of the house, their paint job was pretty terrible. It was streaky and bumpy,...
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We’re alive! And a bedroom update.
We are still alive. I’ll update you with what’s going on here and intersperse it with some updated photos of our bedroom. We had a vinyl print made of one of the photos we took of the Swiss Alps last...
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We made progress on the kitchen renovation!
We actually have a couple projects to share. In the last couple months, we replaced the kitchen flooring and built a bench over the radiator. Here is where we started over a year ago: The lovely...
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Dining room update & a new project coming soon
I hadn’t realized how much the house had changed since the blog was last updated. I took new photographs of several rooms a few weeks ago, before my family came to visit. Like the last time they...
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Dining room
I’m just going to pretend that loooong break around here didn’t just happen. I love you guys and totally appreciate you sticking around! The website business has been keeping me busy, which is good....
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Giant update, guys!
Story time. (Interspersed with the latest photos of our house.) Back when the Hubs and I met, we lived 750 miles apart in two different states. 9 years and 48 weeks ago, we got married and lived in a...
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