Browsing Category: Our House

Office Color Palette

I’m getting anxious to tackle the office in our house. I have the paint color picked out, but I just need to pick it up. I have the fabric to reupholster my chair, but I need to start that. I see a trend starting… But on the good side, it won’t take a whole lot […]

Dreaming of Slate and Stones…

So about a month ago, right before Christmas, Tim and I decided to kill some time and check out the new Tile Shop not far from the house. Our intentions were to get ideas for the kitchen down the road. Well, we ended up falling in love with some slate tile, and are pretty set […]

Basement Update

There isn’t a whole lot of progress being made right now…but Tim has all of the walls down and is almost done clearing out all of the debris. We pretty much have the new floor plan decided on, but there’s a lot to do before we start thinking about putting walls back up: dry–locking the […]

Simple Christmas Centerpiece

This is our first Christmas in the house, which means very few decorations for the season. I owned a fake [gasp] tree, ornaments, a few other things here and there, but those were all used in a small apartment. Well the house is a bit bigger, and therefore, we needed a few more decorations…especially in […]

One of My Winter Projects

Meet my grandmother’s chair. I’m guessing it’s as old as my parents. I love it. Sure it’s yellow, but not for long. I had mentioned to my grandmother last spring that if ever she decides to get rid of that chair, that I want it. Well, it became mine about two months ago and I […]

Bathroom #2 Is Finished!

So Room #2 is finished, and it also the house’s main bathroom (before you got to see the basement bathroom). When you see the before and after pictures, you may be saying to yourself, “well…it kind of just looks the same.” That’s because we didn’t gut the bathroom or make any drastic changes. Yes, the […]