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One Room Challenge Week 2 | The Scary Bathroom

Living & Decor, Maintenance, One Room Challenge, Respectful RenovationOctober 11, 20183KViews 0Likes 22Comments

It's week two, and I am already cutting my losses. I'm either getting smarter, or I am advancing through the stages of One Room Challenge panic at a faster rate than usual. Either way, six hours and only one surface into skim coating the bathroom walls, I had the following thought, I need to pay someone…

Fall 2018 One Room Challenge: Week 1

Living & Decor, One Room Challenge, Respectful RenovationOctober 4, 20184KViews 0Likes 38Comments

Last Friday, I was not sure if we would participate in this round of the One Room Challenge. Our spring project went from bad to worse, and I just wasn't sure I had it in me to tackle another project right now. After a lot of soul-searching, I decided that I like the punishment of…

You Can’t Always Get What You Want

Living & Decor, Respectful RenovationSeptember 11, 20182KViews 0Likes 6Comments

About a month ago, I wrote an update on our upstairs bathroom remodel. To recap: after a couple of disappointing contractor visits and bids, I decided to call Janet, our previous project manager at Lowe's. You may recall that in 2016 we hired Lowe's Remodeling Services for our gut kitchen renovation. After that phone call, I…

The Front Door: I Think We Are Painting It.

Exterior Projects, Living & Decor, Respectful RenovationAugust 21, 20185KViews 1Like 37Comments

Perhaps the title of this post caught your attention. We are painting the front door? Well, maybe. Andy and I have been working on the front door, on-and-off, since the summer of 2015. Probably the most important post that we wrote was how ice dams damaged the door and how we fixed it. That post started the…

The Upstairs Bathroom: What’s Happening?

Living & Decor, Respectful RenovationAugust 9, 20182KViews 0Likes 11Comments

In my day-to-day life, no news almost always mean good news. However, in the home reno world, no news means nothing is happening. At the end of last year, Andy and I considered an easy refresh of the upstairs bathroom. However, once we started dreaming, we decided that maybe moving forward with the full remodel…

Two Years Later: The Kitchen

Living & Decor, Respectful RenovationAugust 2, 2018534Views 0Likes 0Comments

This month, it has been two years since we completed the gut remodel of the kitchen. We still love it. This was our first experience with a remodel of this size, and tackling the entire project on our own was way beyond our skill set. So, after considering a few options for contractors and kitchen…

One Room Challenge Week 2 | The Scary Bathroom

Fall 2018 One Room Challenge: Week 1

You Can’t Always Get What You Want

The Front Door: I Think We Are Painting It.

The Upstairs Bathroom: What’s Happening?

Two Years Later: The Kitchen

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