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Here’s where we left off yesterday: Down these stairs, is another 1700 square feet, and a cute little girl. To the left, there are four doorways, three bedrooms and a bathroom. The room to the immediate left will be the guest room.  It doesn’t share a wall with all other room and the closet has […]

The tile is finally finished!  The last time you saw it, we had just finished the installation process of our 3×6 Hampton Carrara subway tiles, which took us over 20 hours.  Grouting went faster, but we ran out right before we left for Idaho. It was torture to be so close.  But when we arrived […]

Thank you for all the support with our big announcement yesterday.  Your energy and excitement for us is going to make this process so much easier. I’m sure of it.  With that said, buckle up–it’s been pretty crazy over here since we decided last Friday we were taking the job and moving.  We have a […]

The final shipment of our kitchen tile comes in today and we’re moderately excited about it.  There are just a few last minute things we have on our kitchen to-do list, one being the windowsill above the sink. You see, it looks like this…after a good scrubbing: All of the windowsills on the back of […]

This weekend I brightened things up in our formerly dark gray-brown bedroom.  Now that we are getting settled into our style, we are revisiting rooms that we painted/decorated quickly (and cheaply) when we first moved in and…tweaking–which I actually highly recommend. Yes, you might end up painting a room twice, but when you’re just getting […]

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