Category: New House

  • Living Room: Before and progress

    Living Room: Before and progress

    Our living room has been quite the conundrum for me.  It looks big because of the vaulted ceilings and the vinyl windows, but when you cut out the walkways and the barstool area and the dead space on either side of the fireplace it’s smaller than it looks. When planning your living room design is […]

  • Kitchen: Before and After

    Kitchen: Before and After

    Our kitchen was my least favorite space in this house before we moved in, and I’m a kitchen lover so it was a little hard to envision loving the kitchen in this house.  It was dark, long, and narrow.  The complete opposite of our last kitchen that was bigger and more open.

  • Countertops and painted cabinets, oh my!

    Countertops and painted cabinets, oh my!

    I snuck by the house this morning to take a peak at the cabinets and, to my delight, the caesarstone benchtops were being installed right when we got there!

  • Renovation Update

    Renovation Update

    We’re supposedly 5 days away from renovations being complete!!  I am so ready to see a finished product and move in!  Actually, I’m dreading the move, because who enjoys packing and unpacking?  But still, it will be nice to start settling in to our new normal.  The past few months at my mom’s house has […]

  • The Ironwood House, Pre-Renovation

    The Ironwood House, Pre-Renovation

    You guys– I wrote an entire post last night and somehow deleted it.  I blame Google drive for automatically saving every 2 seconds. I’ve forgotten the need to manually save on WordPress! Anyways, we were under contract on this house 7 days after Cohen was born.  This is where I also had to keep updated […]