It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home
Have you ever wished and wished for something thinking it would never come true? Then it does come true and it’s way better than you could have ever dreamed. Our brand new beautiful wood stairs is that dream for me. I’ve wished for these stairs for years and years and now their all mine!! (and […]
If you’ve been following my blog for any amount of time, you’ve probably read at least one of my ‘Project Goals’ for each New Year. Here is an example if you want to read one from 2017. Here is a before & after picture of the staircase when I painted the rails black after I […]
Do you know the feeling you get when you’ve worked really hard for really long on something and you just completed it and you look back and say, AAAHHHHH!!!! (insert sigh noise) That’s what I’m doing right now. The hallway renovation is finally and completely complete. Let’s look back on all that we’ve done before I […]
Laying the hardwood floors in our upstairs hallway, we’ve learned many do’s and don’t’s. Here are our top 2: #1) Starting with a space with many alcoves and crevices, a boring rectangular shaped room will be a piece of cake! #2) Walls are not square. MEASURE, MEASURE, MEASURE!! This is what we’ve done so far. […]
After two days of working on pulling up the carpet and preparing the base molding and door jambs for the beautiful wood floors, we were aching. We both really looked like 90 year olds walking around the house!! You can see what we did here. The incentive of beautiful wood floors pushed us to continue […]
Happy Very Belated Chinese New Year! My LOML works for a company from China so the week before last was a big holiday for them. SCORE!!! He took off last Friday and Monday so we had four days to rip up carpeting and lay down beautiful wood floors (or so we thought!). DAY #1 The […]