In our kitchen and our bathroom, there are windows that definitely need something to help block the glare of the sun at certain times of day. But those are two rooms where I really hate to use a traditional curtain. They just attract moisture and mold in the bathroom and grease in the kitchen. So …
Yesterday, a very exciting thing happened: we finally got back our newly reupholstered couch. I won’t say it was cheap, but I will say it was worth the money, and in this post, I’m going to explain why we chose to reupholster an old piece instead of just buying a new couch. We’ve had our …
Hello all! It’s been a while since we posted any renovation-related updates, and I owe you guys a whole bunch of them. The rest of our upstairs is close to finished, I posted a teaser of some kitchen updates that we had to race to finish before hosting Christmas brunch, and we have been installing …
Hello everyone! It’s been way too long since our last post. Between the holiday craziness, finishing the final steps of our kitchen renovation before Christmas brunch (don’t worry, post and pics to come), and Reliant having major surgery on both of his back knees yesterday, it’s been a little hectic. Today I’m just going to …
So it’s been a really really REALLY long time coming, but the upstairs bathroom is finally finished and I am so excited to share it with you guys! If you’ll remember, we essentially stripped the entire 500ish square feet of our upstairs bare to the studs and added this second bathroom from scratch. You can …
As someone who usually thinks of an ugly floral in grandma’s kitchen when I think of wallpaper, you’d pretty much never hear me advocate for its use in your house. As someone who has helped remove wallpaper on several occasions, I certainly wouldn’t recommend it if I ever thought I’d have to take it down. …
Guys, I have the hardest time with bathroom vanities. When I started planning our renovation, it was seriously the bane of my existence. Obviously we aren’t made of money at this stage of life (what’s up student debt?) so we couldn’t afford to spend an obnoxious amount of money on a vanity, but the average …
Just when you thought we were done adding family members for a while, I have to introduce you to a new one: Herbie! Herbie (AKA Herbert Hoover) is our new robotic vacuum, and I am in love with him. Herbie is an ECOVACS DEEBOT N79 Robotic vacuum, and I found him on Amazon. I have …
Today I’m going to talk about “in a pinch” window treatments that work. This post is pretty short because these are pretty easy. Sometimes you have a window or two that needs dressing up without needing a full-blown window treatment. It may be a frosted window in your bathroom. It may be a window that …
When we were renting our house, we had a regular old 40 gallon tank water heater. I’m honestly not sure how old it was at the time. But it drove me nuts, because apparently, I like to take absurdly hot showers. Seth says it’s like I’m trying to burn myself alive. Needless to say, our …
