Jul
14

Removing Our Popcorn Ceilings

As Ashley mentioned in our one-year update, we have begun removing the popcorn ceilings, and smoothing them out. After I finished building the bed, I was trying to come up with a project that took […]

May
13

Surprise King Bed

With our anniversary coming up at the end of May, I decided I wanted to get Ashley a king size bed. We’d been talking about it for a while, especially since our mattress was getting […]

Mar
30

Updating Our Living Room (Part 3)

Having learned a lot from our first cabinet, the second one went in much quicker! In our last post about our living room update, we had just finished one side of the fireplace with cabinets. […]

Mar
29

Updating Our Living Room (Part 2)

Wow! It’s been a while since our last post, but there was a lot that we had to finish this time around. In our last post, we left off after we finished mounting our TV […]

Jan
23

Updating Our Living Room (Part 1)

It’s been some time since we did any real changes to the house, but we’ve been working hard since after Christmas. Our first big project of the year has been updating the living room. We’ve […]

Jan
7

Christmas In Our New Home

Christmas this year was extra special since it was our first Christmas in our new house. We got to decorate our own fireplace and our own yard outside. I couldn’t wait to decorate this year. […]

Sep
2

Our Labor Day Weekend Project

We wanted to do something this Labor Day weekend since we both had a long weekend and had no specific plans leading up to it. On Friday, we decided we’d make the front garden bed […]

Aug
8

Building Our Side Tables

After spending some time looking at coffee tables and side tables, I decided they were too expensive. Usually Ashley would be the one to want to save money, but as we were correcting their wobbly […]

Jul
6

The Before Pictures

Although there isn’t much changed in terms of the after pictures yet, I wanted to post the pictures of what the house looked like when we first moved in, so in the future we have […]

Jul
6

It’s Even More Official

I’ve been checking the online tax records since we closed, and today I was excited to see it finally showed up with our names listed!