Chaos inside chaos
Last night, Shane and I looked at our total spend on this house to date. Let me tell you, the final number made my skin crawl. It was more than my annual income. And the worst part is, that money doesn't equate to value added or improved quality of life...yet. Sure, we've put some more …
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Earlier this year, we decided to start chipping away at replacing our single glazed windows with double glazing. At first, we wanted to retrofit double glazing, so we could keep the original wooden windows with their beautiful lead lights. Unfortunately, the sills were in pretty rough shape, and after getting some specialist advice, we decided …
When we bought this house, I had grand ideas of renovating the living room, putting in a new kitchen, sprucing up the bathroom! Never in my wildest dreams did I think we would be starting with the laundry. The laundry: a room for the sole purpose of doing chores. Nothing good ever happened in the …
(Gosh, I love a good alliteration in the title. It's probably now that I should tell you that in my other life, I'm an English and Classics teacher, so expect a few puns, alliterations and metaphors!) We bought our house in mid-2016. We'd been on the hunt for the right house for a while, but …
Today, I was uploading photos of our home renovations on Facebook and I realized that I had so much to say about each of the projects we'd completed and my photo captions just couldn't do it justice. So, here I am. While my 4 month old is in the bouncer next to me, chewing on …
A Little Family Reno 