I knew when we decided to buy this house that front porch was going to be perfect for rocking chairs! So I started looking at yard sales, browing Craigslist and facebook yard sale sites, and even watching for clearance deals in stores before we even moved. I wasn’t finding any! After we got the bushes all […]
Beginning work on landscaping at our new house
So if you remember from the last post this is what our house looked like when we bought it. We did some work trimming bushes but realized that the bushes were in too bad of a shape and way too many of them to attempt to save them. So the next step was to pull […]
It’s a jungle out there–and how we tamed it
So excited to start showing you some things we have been busy working on to the outside of our new to us fixer upper house. Here is new house on the day we closed. I seriously have to just laugh when I go back and see these pictures. What in the world were we thinking […]
Our first home before/after pictures
Well, I had hoped to wrap up every room in our old home with lots of before/after pictures each in a separate but to be honest my heart just isn’t there anymore. And my computer time is very limited because of a sweet little baby. 🙂 So I decided to conclude that chapter in our […]
Controlling the garage door with my smartphone
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Chamberlain for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Our new home has introduced another new thing to us – an automatic garage door opener! We didn’t have a garage door opener at our last home when we bought it and never bothered installing […]
Painted Trim in the Living Room plus before to now pictures!
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of FrogTape® for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. So what I didn’t show you in my last post on our paint and flooring update in the living room was that the baseboards weren’t painted. From a distance it didn’t probably seem obvious but in person it […]
Early Fall/Halloween Front Porch with Wood Pallet Pumpkins
This post is sponsored by DecoArt. I am a DecoArt Core blogger for 2016-2017 and enjoy using and sharing some of their products with you. All thoughts, opinions, and styling are all mine. I am so excited to share my first fall post with you! I have been doing a bit of decorating – mostly […]
New flooring and new paint in the living room
I am so excited to share some updates on the new house today! I still have a few rooms left in the old house to share but figured I would take a break this week and show you progress on our living room and even a fall post at the new house and then wrap […]
How to Update a Very Boring Powder Room
I am having so much fun going through old photos and sharing these with you from our old house. I am itching to start sharing stuff from the new house though so I need to get through these so I can start sharing what I have been slowly (oh so slowly it seems with a […]
Playroom/Boys Bedroom
Today I am sharing another room from our old house I don’t think I ever shared on the blog. It’s amazing what you whip into shape when your home goes on the market This was our 3rd bedroom at our old house. It was sort of just a spare bedroom with no purpose and completely […]