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If you’ve been following along with my blog or through my Instagram, you know that we’re currently fixing up an old 1902 Victorian home. My sweet little boy has claimed one little section of wall for...
View ArticleTips for removing wallpaper from plaster walls (without chemicals!)
Thankfully, we have finished stripping every single room of our 1902 Victorian of the dreaded wallpaper. If you’ve been following on Instagram, you’ve seen us through this process (where we’re...
View ArticleMonth 4: Kitchen progress, bedrooms, and getting ready for move-in day!
I am currently writing this post from our “NEW” house – we’ve moved in!! We worked so hard to get to this day, and while the house is most definitely NOT finished, it’s livable, and that’s huge! Hope...
View ArticleFarmhouse Kitchen: Before & After
See all of the details & full source list from this DIY farmhouse kitchen here! It’s been 5 months in the making, but the biggest DIY renovation of our lives is finally finished! I couldn’t be...
View ArticleDIY Farmhouse Kitchen Makeover: All the Details
It was a lot of fun sharing our before & after pictures of our kitchen yesterday – it has truly come such a long way! This kitchen has been a big, long, labor of love. I hope you’re ready for an...
View ArticleHouse Update: Month 3 {painting, kitchen demolition, burst pipe & working...
It’s hard to believe we’re already in month THREE of our house renovations! In case you need a refresher, here’s my update from month one and from month two. This month has been all about painting...
View ArticleMaster Bedroom Makeover
It’s been a little quiet here for the past month, but I’m back from my maternity leave and ready to share with you what we’ve been working on! Between sweet baby snuggles and keeping up with an active...
View ArticleVintage Rustic Nursery
We are finally finished with our sweet little girl’s nursery! She just turned three months old (how did that go so quickly?!), but we were working on finishing up our major kitchen renovation right...
View ArticleOffice Makeover
As a mom who works from home, I spend a lot of time in front of our home computer. About 95% of it is at night, but I still spend a LOT of time in our office. Our office is also one of the major...
View Article5 questions to ask yourself before buying a fixer upper
If you’ve been here for at least 2 minutes, you’ll know that we’re in the middle of our biggest DIY adventure ever – fixing up a 1902 Victorian house into our forever home. Fixing up houses seems to be...
View ArticleFall House Tour 2015
Our house is far from “done” (and I’m realizing that it will probably never be truly done – with how I always have some project I want to tackle!) BUT it’s come such a long way since we started...
View ArticleSmall Bathroom Makeover
This bathroom. Woah. Let me tell you – it’s come a LONG way. Let’s start from the beginning. When we bought our 1902 Victorian, it had a very small and very ugly second bathroom. When I say very...
View ArticleThankful…
I have been hit by feeling so incredibly blessed and thankful lately. Blessed does not mean “perfect”. Actually, I’m really finding how fun it is to enjoy the beauty in imperfection. To just stop my...
View ArticleEASY update: switch out your hardware for a custom look
Super quick post today – I just wanted to remind you that you can easily add more character to your furniture pieces (and your home) by doing the simplest thing – switching out your hardware! It’s an...
View ArticleLiving in 1902: Summer & Fall in our Kitchen
We’ve been living in our house for a little over 6 months now – and I STILL can’t believe how far it’s come! Now, don’t mistake that for the house being DONE, because it’s far from being done! But...
View ArticleVintage Sports Boys Bedroom
Can we begin this post with a big “I can’t believe my baby isn’t a baby anymore?!” It seems like just yesterday I was rocking him in his nursery, and now he’s got a queen sized bed in his room. I’m...
View ArticleRaymour & Flanigan Holiday: $500 giveaway!
I am beyond excited to give one of you the opportunity to win $500 to one of my favorite furniture sources. If you’ve been around my site this past year, you’ve noticed that I’ve had a partnership...
View Article1902 Victorian Christmas House Tour
I am so thankful to Home Decorator’s Collection for sponsoring this house tour. As always, all opinions are 100% my own. Full disclosure here. I am so excited to share my Christmas home with you...
View ArticleThe best of 2015
I think I can honestly say that 2015 has been the craziest year of my life. I feel like we ran a marathon all. year. long. Let’s start at the beginning – we began 2015 by starting our 1902 Victorian...
View ArticleDon’t believe everything you see on social media
I posted a picture on Instagram this afternoon: Yes, I did pause before I hit “share”. Goodness, it’s hard to be vulnerable. But I quickly put my self-doubt aside and thought, “Someone might need to...
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