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All the Before and Progress Photos from the Cabin

March 25, 2019 - 34 Comments

We had to meet with a builder last week for insurance purposes. One of the things that insurance takes into account after a total loss to fire is the cost to rebuild. So we had to sit down with plans …

Projects

6 Lessons We Learned From Renovating the A-Frame

March 11, 2019 - 31 Comments

Today marks one month since our beloved A-frame caught fire and burned down. I’ll never forget that morning, Chris just got a new truck and was driving Greta to school (as usual) before heading to the gym. It wasn’t five …

Projects

Where Do We Go From Here?

February 26, 2019 - 112 Comments

Last week, when we initially shared that we lost our cabin in a fire, I mentioned we didn’t have any answers. And while we still don’t have answers to many of your most asked questions about the fire, I thought …

Our Life, Projects

A Video Tribute to our A-frame + Paying it forward

February 21, 2019 - 107 Comments

The past few days, I got dressed and ate food and blow-dried my hair. I slept mostly without nightmares. In summary, we’re all doing much better after the fire and loss of our cabin 10 days ago. There has been such …

Our Life, Projects

The loss of our A-frame

February 19, 2019 - 355 Comments

Just over a week ago, Monday, February 11, 2019, our a-frame cabin that we have been renovating for the past year burned to the ground. It’s been a hard week and I thought if I stepped away from everything for …

DIY

The 8 Projects We’re Going to do in 2019

January 17, 2019 - 38 Comments

At the beginning of every year, we love to lay out our project goals, things we’re aiming to check off! At the end of the year, we look back and see how we did (you can see last year’s report …

Decor, Design

The New Cabin Chandeliers + What’s Working and What’s Not!

January 14, 2019 - 72 Comments

Just when everyone was getting used to the bladeless ceiling fans, we go and upgrade them. Previously, there were two ceiling fans here–the blades were removed for painting and we never put them back up because we had already ordered …

Projects

The Craziest 6 Days leading up to Hosting our First time at the Cabin

January 9, 2019 - 13 Comments

6 days before hosting over Christmas, the painting finished. Then countertops went in. I had my mom and sister spend the day up there one day just deep cleaning and then two days before we hosted family for …

Design, DIY

The Easiest Way to Hang a Rug on A Wall

January 8, 2019 - 64 Comments

Right before Christmas, we shared the progress we’ve made in the dark green basement room at the cabin (Side note: we’re 95% sure we’re calling it the forest room with the other two rooms being the lake room and the …

Projects

Painting the Wood Walls and Toning/De-Oranging the Beams at our A-frame

January 7, 2019 - 85 Comments

Right before Christmas, literally a week!, we had the main space in our a-frame painted. We were thinking about it for awhile and then it hit us–as soon as we start moving furniture in (we were hosting family starting the …

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