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On Crazy Ideas & Not Picking Up The Hammer
Obviously I’ve spent a lot more time in the Pink Parlor in the last few days than I have in the last few months, and usually when I spend a lot of time in one space, I start getting ideas. You probably...
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Ways To Amuse Yourself While Waiting To Die From An Aneurism
UPDATE: I’m fine, peeps. It was a glorified headache without the actual ache. — So. The good news is that I did not die from an aneurism this morning. You know what that’s called? Perspective. What did...
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Old Barn Wood, New Basement Door
This one tiny little hallway– literally the smallest space in my house– has officially become the mecca of insomnia fueled awesomeness in my life. It started with this light (that I just barely...
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Things I Didn’t Paint (and yet, there is still paint in my hair)
We’re only two days in, and it’ has already been a week around the Liberty House. I think there has been more impactful progress on the interior house in the last 48 hours than in the last 7 months. I...
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Reckless Enthusiam: It’s Contagious
A current inventory of my life includes: a missing patch of skin from my right forearm, two rooms in my house that look completely different than they did a week ago, a dryer that may or may not be...
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I Think I May Have Decorated Something. Weird.
For the last three years my concept of “decorating” has been limited to compulsively saving things to my Pinterest boards. Because, you know, I’ve been in a constant state of tearing houses apart,...
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Renovation Roadtrip: Things I Learned from Meryl and Chris
Let’s have a moment of truth here, because if nothing else I like to be honest with the entire Internet about my personal strengths (i.e. I own a lot of power tools) and, as we like to say in the biz,...
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Renovation Roadtrip: Master Bath Demo Begins
So, I’ve been talking about tearing the master bathroom out for… how long have I owned this house? Eight months? Yes, so basically every day for the last eight months. I don’t even care so much about...
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A Different Way of Getting Paint on My Face: Pinterest Challenge
Last week the ladies from Ugly Duckling House, Young House Love, Bower Power, and Our Fifth House (just the name of that site exhausts me, since I’m only on house number three) threw down a Pinterest...
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The Parlor: Where Things Stop Getting Pink and Start Getting Finished
The one unequivocal statement that can be made about the parlor is that it’s no longer fifty shades of pink. I mean, it’s completely unfinished. I have a to-do list as long as my arm that needs to be...
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