Merry Christmas! Jim kicked me out of the kitchen while he makes our family's traditional Krumkakes, so let's do a Christmas home tour. Come on in, and we'll try to stay out of his way! A couple years ago my best friend…
Well, they're mostly finished. I still have to paint the closet doors in Jim's office. I'm thrilled with how they all look, and I'm loving our bathroom barn door. So much better. Everything looks so much more elegant with a touch of…
I finally started painting our interior doors. It has been on my list of things to do since before we moved in, and I really wish I would have done it sooner, like before we moved in! Better late than never, they…
I cannot believe we've been in our house for one whole year!! Where has the time gone? I remember thinking in January that our house no longer felt "new." It just felt like our house and not our "new" house. I don't…
My "Haunted" Dining Room Table October is only a couple days away, and the internet is alive with "haunted" stories and Halloween decorating ideas. You know what, though? Halloween is not one of my favorite holidays, but I do have a scary…
After SIX months of renovating the 1950s ranch home, we bought last summer, the time has finally come to move in! In honor of this long-awaited occasion, I thought I'd share some pictures of our finished renovation!! I use the word "finished" loosely…
We are finally winding down with our renovations! The electrician and the plumber have both finished up there work, so now we're down to little finishing details. Gone is the 1970's wallpaper and paneling. Gone is all the carpet. Curtains are being…
We finally got to the point where Jim just couldn't continue doing work in the house piece piece after work. So he took the whole week off, and we're getting so much done. Here's some pictures of our progress so far...Once this…
Opening up the wall between the living and dining rooms made a huge difference!
Last month I shared that I had a secret I was itching to share, but that you'd have to wait to find out what it was. Now I can tell you!! Drum roll, please... We bought a new house!! We closed…