I’m meeting with a new potential kitchen designer in a few days. During our initial conversation, it was interesting to reflect on how far this new potential design is from the old one. A world of difference and I love it. This new kitchen placement just feels so much more natural to me. As a…
One of the best features of this house has been sticking around for over 100 years – the stairs. You can’t build stairs like this. Well, you can – but it just would not be the same. I’ve loved these stairs from the beginning. I love the two landings. I love the window at the…
How is it week 8? It feels like it should be both week 3 and week 12 all at once. This was a bit of a slower week with Thursday being a holiday. I haven’t been able to really get back inside the house because all the ladders are actually inside the house and I…
Welcome to our week 7 recap! I’m writing this a few days later since it’s been a busy couple days – which makes it harder to actually remember what happened. But when I look back on the pictures, it has been a pretty crazy week. So much happened and with even more progress. Every time…
Welcome to the Week 6 recap. It feels like a big week of change – but maybe not. When I stand on the lot, it feels like things are really happening. After months of talk about things hypothetically, we are actually seeing the fruition of our conversations and plans. When we did the demo, it…
One of the things that I’m pretty stuck on is not wanting a house that feels new. Thankfully, the bones of this house are 100+ years old. My hope is that even with all the “cosmetic surgery” we are doing, you’ll still feel like the house is super old … but not from poor insulation…
The house has this original 1900s-ish era fireplace. You could see it in a lot of family pictures. But admittedly, there wasn’t much special about it except it’s age and emotional significance. Those are both important factors to be clear, but when making decisions about the future of those house… they don’t necessarily win out.…
Oh Week 5. You were a real gem. We had an ant infestation, beams all the way until the house, and found a lucky penny. All winners – even the ants. There wasn’t a whole ton to describe this week because it could mainly be summarized as: (1) try to fix crooked stuff and (2)…
Everyone loves a good before and after shot right? This project will have probably about a million of those – but the very first one came over the summer. After years of just hanging out, all of the overgrowth on the lot needed to go. I’m a saver / restorer by heart … but even…
Welcome to Week 4! It’s pretty funny to me that one of the contractors I talked to said this was a 4 month project… and while I found that hard to believe then, it’s laughable now. Silly you. This week was really all about telling me how things weren’t perfect. If the first couple weeks…
