For months I have known it was coming. When I’d have to move all the stuff I’ve been storing upstairs in our mostly unused two bedrooms and three closets, to the basement while the upstairs gets completely gutted down to the studs. If you are new to this space, here’s the backstory regarding our renovations and us […]
Prepping for major renovations at this old house
It’s official. On June 18 this old house of ours well start the process of a major interior renovation! Exterior renovations were part of phase one. And now the green light is officially on, for phase two and three. A bathroom roof will come off, a mudroom will be built, a new kitchen will transform […]
The BLUE house reveal and repurposed front porch
It was a tough, tough decision for us to take our very dark brown house with classic yellow trim, straight from historic bungalow times, and do anything different to it. We’ve lived here for six years and when our oldest daughter was two-years-old she nicknamed it The Brown House. And that, my friends, was what […]
Renovations update, window restoration in the news
Renovations on our 90-year-old craftsman house continue, as it goes from being the brown house to becoming the blue house. The old layers of paint are getting scraped off and slowly, the blue is going up. The trim is going from yellow to creme and accent colors of a creamy orange well soon go on […]
Renovation update: new doors and picking paint
As I mentioned a few weeks back here, we are doing some long over due renovations to our 90 year-old craftsman house, known as and blogged about as “The Brown House.” We have a green LEED certified contractor who has handcrafted oak carriage doors for our garage, made from wood he harvested himself, on the property […]
Renovations update, an old radiator and a vintage baby buggy up for grabs
This morning the rotted side of our garage was torn down and put in a dumpster by the time I got up, got breakfast and went to the store. Poof, just like that! For a before picture click here. I’m hoping someone will do a drive by looking for scrap metal and pick up that […]
Exciting Renovations starting at our Brown House
Since moving into our 1918 craftsman house six years ago, it’s been lovingly referred to as The Brown House. My oldest daughter named it that when she was two and it stuck. My old blog before this was called the Brown House News. Well, The Brown House is about to start undergoing some much needed […]