Now that demo is over, it’s time to start buckling down and finalizing my design choices. I’ve had a very specific design in my head for my dream kitchen for YEARS and the fact that it could actually become a reality is somewhat mind-blowing to me.
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Demo is officially over…and I for one am super excited about it 🙂 Demo itself was a lot of fun, though quite tedious at times, and walking into your shell of a house has a weird sense of satisfaction and accomplishment knowing that you did it yourself. Here are some before and after pictures to […]
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CALLING ALL HOME DESIGN NERDS, I NEED HELP! It’s just about time for building to start which means that we need to decide on and order windows! This is the first major design decision to get to this phase – and it’s a HUGE one at that! I believe that windows are too often overlooked […]
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If you have never done demo (which we hadn’t) one of the first things you realize is that it is going to take A LONG TIME…and when you have a full time job and can only work on the house (which has no electricity due to demo safety precautions) during daylight hours, it’s going to […]
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So what did you do this Fourth of July weekend? For us, it meant Demo Day was finally here! I had been looking forward to demo day since the day our offer was accepted. There’s something so exciting and inspiring about the idea of demo day – the thought of being able to finally see my […]
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We did it! We officially closed on our Little House on a Hill! The process was long and stressful, and full of frustrating days of unanswered questions, but the day has finally come that that is all over and we are officially homeowners!
Read MoreMortgage. What a word. I (as I’m sure many people do) have such a visceral reaction to that word. Getting a mortgage has been by no means the most fun process of this whole first time home-buyer thing. But I’m sure anyone could tell you that. What I have found most frustrating is the amount […]
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Well, moving weekend was a long, exhausting one…but we did it. We’re officially moved out of our first apartment. The move was bittersweet, it was our first home together, the home we lived in when we got married, and the first place we learned how to blend our styles. We’ve established that Jon has “veto power” […]
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After about a year and 100+ house viewings later…we finally found it. A house that will be the perfect first project. You see, with every house that Jon and I looked at there was always SOMETHING that we would want to change. A door knob here, flooring there, an entire kitchen, no big deal – […]
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Pleasant To Pinewood 