Organization Saves my Sanity.

I am the queen of a clean house and messy closets. Everyone who visits mentions how tidy the house is, but I refuse to let them look in drawers, closets, or even the pantry. I’m a “pick it up and toss it somewhere hidden” kinda gal. It works alright for our family. I try to [...]

House Evolution

The fixing of the house has been a bit slow-going now that Taylor is so busy at work. We have something almsot every weekend with FRG stuff, family events, visitors, and traveling. Though the chaos of our lives is making time fly and creating memories at a rapid fire pace, we are usually so exhausted [...]

Weekend Warriors

It’s been a few weeks since we’ve done much to the house. With the exception of one evening where we painted trim and Taylor cussed at some baseboard, we have been taking a bit of a break. One thing we’ve learned very quickly is that it isn’t too hard to burn out on renovations. We [...]

Perfectly imperfect?

We are learning many, MANY lessons in these first few weeks as homeowners living in the home. Like; Mr. Clean Magic Erasers will remove rogue Vintage Teal paint from white trim. Spiders are a statewide epidemic and apparently rather immune to exterminator spray. Freak me out. Living without a garbage disposal is a time warp. [...]

The never-ending backsplash job.

We headed down to the new house this past weekend with every intention of being super productive. Taylor planned on finishing laying the floors in the rest of the closets and trimming up as much as he could with quarter round. I planned on finished the tile of the backsplash in the kitchen and then [...]

Lights and Tile and Transitions, oh my!

This weekend was a BIG weekend. We left Virginia at about 4:30PM and pulled up to my parents’ house a little past 10:00PM. We got babies in bed by 11:00PM (poor guys) and crashed. At 5:00AM Saturday morning, the alarm rang a bit too loudly. I thought it was a terrible dream at first, but [...]

The end is near (okay, totally not, but humor me).

Our kitchen is thisclose to being liveable. Well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration. There is quite a bit left to go, but we are slowly, but surely, chipping away at it bit by bit. This upcoming weekend, we have plans for it. Big plans. We have a friend/handyman (remember Mark? The cabinet guy? He [...]

Let’s talk about floors, baby.

Taylor here. Sally talked me into writing a blog post, even though in college I did in my power to avoid writing. I love that girl. So, let’s lay some floors, everyone. First thing, get rid of the terrible carpet.  There is no one, easy way to pull up that dog hair and dust riddled piece [...]

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