working with your house
Every home has a personality. It might be quirky, conservative, playful, regal, humble, sleek… The home brings something to the table. While there are some homes that need to be stripped to the bones and entirely reworked, most homes just need for you to cooperate with them – let them be what they are and […]
New House Tour | The Front Porch
Everyone knows that the best color to use to make a good first impression is the pale beige that has graced Band Aids for generations. Not really, but that’s what my front door is saying at the moment. I don’t know what is up with this color, but it’s blah and it’s going to change. […]
new house tour | living room
If you missed a tour of my new kitchen earlier this week, you can catch it HERE. In today’s post, I’m going to take you on a tour of the living room. We’ve had some debate about what to call this room – the living room or the family room. I think we’ve settled on […]
new house tour | the kitchen
I must confess that as I looked at this big, empty house, I felt a little intimidated by it. When we bought our PA home, there was a lot of obvious work that needed to be done. This house, though? It’s beautiful. Would my chippy, crusty antiques look like junk? Would my ironstone look completely […]
settling in
The past couple of days have been a whirlwind. We’ve been bringing stuff in from the trucks, cleaning, unpacking boxes, making daily runs to Home Depot, and getting to know the neighbors. We’ve fallen into bed exhausted each night and creaked out of bed each morning, but multiple times a day, we press the pause […]
but first, toilets
Warning: This post contains pictures of toilets that some readers may find disturbing. Reader discretion is advised. If you know me at all, you know I am bursting to break out some paint in this new house! But I’ve learned from a few moves that a place feels more like home once the toilets […]
home
We sat at a table at the title company, signing papers while the boys were occupied with games on the iPads. When we reached the end of the stack, we all stood up and shook hands. “Boys, we just bought our house!” We were all excited and eager to get over to the house. A […]
our welcome to Rochester
I received an e-mail from my great uncle a few days ago. He was letting me know that he couldn’t wait for part four of our moving story. I laughed when I read it, because there isn’t a part four! That’s it. Jeff got the job, we got the house, and we’re moving to Minnesota. […]