I cannot believe it’s been almost a year since I’ve posted here. When I logged in this morning (which I still do to check on any questions and comments), it seemed like it had only been a few months. Nothing to speak of has changed in the house yet. It’s been an adventurous year to […]
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Meet the Prairie House
We are all moved in to the new house! It is quite different from the Victorian. It’s a Frank Lloyd Wright style (and not too far from where he lived and went to school actually). It was designed by an architect for his aunt and uncle and finished in 1961. We just purchased it from their son, so […]
Goodbye to the Victorian…and the Craftsman
The Victorian closed and officially belongs to someone else now. We’re currently living in the big Craftsman as you’ve seen in the last few posts, but things just haven’t worked out like we thought they would, and this month, we’ll be moving…again. We’ll be in the same general area, work is good and we like the […]
Bedroom makeover with just paint and a few second-hand items
The last 5 weeks of the One Room Challenge just flew by. We took another week off the ORC bedroom makeover last week because we were at a point where we’d have to spend money to continue, and when you’re paying for two houses, money isn’t exactly in abundance. (Anybody want to buy a cute Victorian? Please?) We […]
I’m in love with this color combo (ORC week 4)
We had too much going on last week to make any progress on the One Room Challenge bedroom makeover (click here to see our first 2 weeks). I did get the walls and most of the ceiling primed, but that was it. This week, however was much different. Here’s what it looked like a couple weeks […]
How to fill in the grooves of wall paneling
As is often the case in houses with plaster walls, at some point, instead of repairing or replacing them, the previous homeowners put 60s/70s paneling over them. Now, I am not one that blanket hates 1970s paneling. I just believe it belongs in a 1970s house, not a 1920s Craftsman. Thankfully they didn’t do a […]
The 2nd floor “Before” photos
So yesterday I showed you the first floor of our new house. This morning I’m showing you most of the second floor. It’s a quirky floor, and we’re using it in a unique way. Also as mentioned yesterday, after just watching so many rounds of the One Room Challenge, this time I’m joining in. I’m […]
A Big Craftsman
We’ve been here for just over a month already, but our new house still feels like somewhat of a college dorm. We left almost all of our furniture behind at the Victorian to keep the house staged. So here is our fairly bare new house! I’m so excited that there’s a formal entry, and that the […]
Really big home office makeover
But first, an update on our houses: there is no update on the Victorian. Sadly, it still belongs to us. And we are still loving the new house. There is considerably more work to be done than we originally thought, but we’re happy about that; it will be fun. So far, we’ve just done minor things like paint, […]