Having known Weston for a little over two weeks now, a few things are already clear. He’s pretty much the smartest, strongest, cutest baby ever. So his future probably includes male modeling, playing football at the University of Georgia, and a profession in either medicine, law or astrophysics. (We’re going to let him choose which […]
The Nursery, Part 2: Closet Storage System
What’s the number one must-have for babies this season? A tricked-out closet for all your new trendy clothes, that’s what. And if you’re thinking about being born early and your closet looks like this, you’re going to wait around a little longer until your parents have time to fix it up. That means your parents […]
Beginning the Nursery {It Never Did Become a Workout Room…}
Rewind a year and a half. We’re house-hunting when we stumble upon The One. It needs help, but has good bones. The master bedroom is huge, and just across the hall, there’s another bedroom. It is your standard box, plus a solid layer of nasty that matches the rest of the house. Terrified of pregnancy/labor/babies/change, […]
After pics: The Kitchen (Longest Post in History Edition)
I hope you’re sitting in a comfortable chair. Because if you actually read this post, instead of just scrolling through and looking at the pictures – YES, I know you do that. Cheater. – you might be here a while. Bear with me! This was the hardest, most difficult room we renovated, of course! So […]
After Pics: the Dining Room
If I had had the opportunity to invite you to dinner at our home about a year and a half ago, we probably would’ve enjoyed a classic peanut-butter-and-jelly while perched atop five-gallon drums of paint or sheetrock mud in our unfinished living room. If you still wanted to be friends after that experience and you […]
After Pics: the Guest Room
Update: We’ve made some changes to this room which you can see here. Well, some might call it a guest room. My mother-in-law calls it her Georgia bedroom, and I love that. You might remember this room from our first “before” shots. What we knew at the time was that there were mysterious gross things […]
A Bathroom Redo: Before and After
Let’s take a little journey back in time… to a time when first bought our house and you had to use THIS if you wanted to powder your nose downstairs: The brass fixtures were a little less gleaming now than I imagine they were back in their heyday. The cabinet door was broken and falling […]
House Update
Dear mom, (I’m starting this blog that way because I can’t imagine that anyone still checks back – except my mom, and my buds with the Google Reader – since I last posted when Michael Jackson was still alive, we were all still worried about swine flu, and we still thought Pluto was a planet.) […]
Snowy Sunday
Sunday started out cold and rainy, the kind of weather that makes you stay in bed a little longer, and makes pajamas seem like the only attire appropriate for the occasion. We woke slowly, enjoying the long morning. (*Cough* We may or may not have skipped church. *cough*) Then, the snow began to fall – […]
Hi, I'm Kelly. Glad you're here! This little blog is where I chronicle our efforts to fix up our beaten-down home on a tiny budget. We're not there yet, but here's a peek at the view along the way...
