Things are moving along and we are finally getting to some of the fun stuff! Move-in is less than 3 weeks away! We are installing flooring, finishing up the bathroom, and cabinets are coming next weekend.

What a difference a fresh coat of paint makes!

We installed 4 x 8 subway tile surrounding the tub.

For the floor, we did a wood-look plank tile.

Here's a close up of the grouted tile. I'm in love with the subtle woodgrain!

After looking at all the wood floor options possible, we decided on laminate flooring for all throughout the main floor. We just finished installing it in all the bedrooms. Martin did a great job installing it!

It's going to be a super busy next couple weeks wrapping things up for move in! We are excited to move in but not too excited about finding time to pack and move! Stay tuned for the next update!

Here's a quick update as we are finally seeing some major progress on the house after this weekend, but things definitely continued to get worse before they got better. Electrical has been a much bigger project than expected, but is wrapping up so now we are closing up walls and starting to finish the drywall, which is very exciting!

All the drywall torn out of the kitchen and bathroom was a scary sight!


The completely gutted bathroom!


We built a wall back up between the two bedrooms where previous owners had taken a wall out.

We installed a new deep tub and plumbing and we are almost ready to prep for tile!


What a huge difference drywall makes in the kitchen!


My sisters came into town for the weekend and were a huge help! Since all the walls and ceilings are smoked stained, we have to clean and Kilz the whole house. Thanks to my sisters, we were able to Kilz 3 bedrooms in one day!


The rooms feel so different with the drywall on the new wall!


Starting to finish the drywall!


Until next time!

Between working on the new house and preparing to move out of our apartment, I sure am having a hard time justifying decorating for Christmas this year. So instead I put together a few things I'm loving from this year's Christmas collections. Click the links below to go right to the item. Next Christmas, be ready. I'm going all out. Enjoy!

one / two / three / four / five / six / seven / eight / nine / ten / eleven / twelve / thirteen / fourteen / fifteen

Welcome to our first update! So much has happened in the space in just the past week! We found out that demo starts out fun but eventually gets exhausting. Martin has spent a good amount of time in the attic this week for electrical work and rerouting a plumbing vent. I feel like most of our communication lately has happened while yelling at each other through the ceiling. That's not good for any relationship! I've also had a few power tools dropped on me through holes in the ceiling. But he did clean up the 3 dead squirrels that were hanging out up there so I think we're even!


As you can remember, there was a wall separating the living room from the kitchen and dining room and also a wall between the dining room and kitchen...



Say goodbye! We tore out all the walls to create one big open space!



I spent a good three days last weekend, with the help of my mother-in-law, removing the wallpaper backing from the dining room and living room. NEVER AGAIN. I'm not even a fan of cute wallpaper anymore.



All the flooring is now tore up on the main floor. There was at least two layers of flooring in every room, but the kitchen takes the prize with a total of six layers of flooring!





Not too much has happened in this bathroom as we quickly figured out that much of the drywall will need replaced!



The kitchen is looking cleaner and has some new outlets roughed in for above the counter. Martin has started rerouting the sink plumbing to go under the window, relocated a few light switches, and fixed some switching messes.







My favorite thing so far are these recessed LED lights that we installed in the hallway. We have nine more to install throughout the space so these were our practice. They started out rough but I think we finally outsmarted the light so we are ready to knock out the rest.



Until next time!

We bought a house! Or should I say a major fixer upper? We are so excited and as you can guess, slightly overwhelmed! We are doing the work ourselves and looking forward to learning a lot I can't wait to design everything.

The Exterior

The Entry

The Living Room

The Dining Room

The Kitchen

Upstairs Bathroom

The Bedrooms

The Basement Living Room

The Basement Bathroom