It took 2 years and 8 months of living with a disgusting kitchen color to finally DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. You never saw proper photos of our kitchen before, because I was embarrassed over the paint color. I would literally apologize to new guests about it. Wait, you saw me stand against one of the walls when I posted my Emery dress a year ago, and I even apologized for the color in that post! I filled it with cute ... Read more »
The Golly Ranch House
A “before before” look at our kitchen
We love our little house, built in 1955. I've really neglected posting about the Golly Ranch (as we lovingly call it sometimes) on my blog. I do get asked questions about it and I'm totally guilty of procrastinating about taking proper photos and sharing some of the things we've done. Nothing nearly as intense as our bathroom remodel, but we've had un-blogged painting and decorating and minor fix-it projects. I thought ... Read more »
So I accidentally bought a vintage sewing machine
A few weeks ago, we went over to our friends Ben and Elisa's house. As it happened, their neighborhood was having a big yard sale earlier in the day that we couldn't attend, but some people still were selling when we got to their house in the late afternoon. Now, a house near them had recently been sold, as the 90+ year old woman who lived there was moving into a nursing home. And Ben and Elisa knew the house hadn't ... Read more »
How does your garden grow?
First, thank you all so much for your wonderful (and sometimes hilarious!) comments on our bathroom renovation! It's been great reading what everyone thinks about it. :) Now let's talk gardening for a little bit, shall we? I'm not a huge gardener. After living in a condo or apartments for pretty much all of my adult life, it wasn't until we bought our house last year that I had a garden of any kind and grew anything ... Read more »
The Golly Ranch bathroom remodel: the big reveal!
I'm back for what you've really been waiting for on the remodeling front, to see the final bathroom. If you missed it, here is yesterday's before and during renovation post. Sorry I split them up (I know that made some of you crazy!), but there was just too much to share. :) As you know, I only had two weeks to plan out nearly every single detail of our bathroom renovation, though the work itself took considerably ... Read more »
The Golly Ranch bathroom remodel: before & during renovation
It's time to talk about a major project that sucked up a lot of our time and energy this spring and early summer! As in, even this post and the upcoming reveal post sucked up a lot of time! Needless to say, I am excited to finally be sharing this all with you. This and the reveal post are "sit down with a drink" posts, so I hope you're in a comfy seat. As you may recall, my dad came to stay with us in May while he ... Read more »