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. […]

Nov
7

Halloween

Well, this post is a bit late, but we wanted to give everyone a look at our fun Halloween decorations and pumpkin carvings. After seeing a few of the houses in our neighborhood all spooked […]

Sep
28

Three Month Update

It’s been three months since we’ve moved into our first home! I thought it would be nice to give everyone an update on how everything is coming along. We still have a few projects on […]

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
28

One Month

It’s been one whole month since we moved into our first home. Time has flown by, but we’ve gotten a lot done. We finished painting the entire house, unpacked about 80% of our stuff, hung […]

Jul
26

Ask Sherwin-Williams

If Sherwin-Williams told us it would take a month to paint our house, we might have reconsidered. I guess we should have asked. Really though, it took a lot of time – almost a month […]

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!