During Thanksgiving break, we tackled re-drywalling the powder bathroom off our entryway. It also became obvious that the flooring was too far gone, so we had to swap it out for a new floor. Here is how that played out: For reaso ...

After moving in, in 2017, I wrote a post about some whole house utility things (link after the jump) that we needed to take care of before diving into the more fun stuff of making over each room in our new home. Let's do an update ...

It is an unbelievably great feeling to have finished the first room makeover in our new home: Our green guest room. We are taking it very slowly and putting lots of thought and effort into every room and makeover and squeezing it ...

Welcome to the first room reveal of our new home. Yes I thought it was going to be the green bath make-over, but that project stalled for a while - a long saga for another time. It is back on track however and will be front and ce ...

You know when you buy a new old home there are actually quite a few 'overall' big decisions you have to make such as oh, do all the utilities work? Do we have the right utilities? What color scheme do we want, what style? Should a ...

So by now you know that we moved to Seattle and found our dream house and moved in. We have now lived here for half a year, we have gotten to know the house really well - tearing down walls for a re-pipe will hurry that process ri ...

Have you missed me? I have missed you! I have been busy over on A Home for Crafts making Christmas decor DIYs for our livingroom. The result - 6 projects that I am really happy about and I can't wait to show you. Be sure to follow ...

Now that we have moved into our temporary apartment while we look for our next adventure, I want to spend the coming months going room by room and talk about how we are making it as homey as possible while keeping within the param ...

As we announced just recently, we have moved. Not only have we moved, but we have drastically down-sized in the process. We moved last Thursday and last night I hung the last artwork and we are officially settled in the new space. ...

Let's talk about our guest / game room. The previous home owners had built an addition to this house adding on a living / dining area below and a master suite above, thereby about doubling the size of the house. When we toured the ...

Today, I am sharing our fourth and final bathroom make-over from our house. Also one of the reasons we are down-sizing. Because 4 bathrooms. Our small family does not need that many bathrooms. Here is how we freshened up the bathr ...

Upstairs we have three bathrooms. The master bathroom, which we recently renovated, and two other bathrooms for the other three bedrooms upstairs. For this bathroom, we just wanted a quick makeover. Let me show you the before. As ...

Our upstairs hallway is ready for its final reveal. Even though it is 'just' a hall way, this space packs a lot of punch in our home. There are several nice storage features and conveniences built in that you may not see at first ...

Home office make-over, oh what a long, drawn out project you have been. But now you can stick a fork in it. It is done. Our office is set up with the desks facing each other to form an island in the middle of the room and then be ...

Here is our finished laundry room nook in the garage. Let's take a minute to see how it started out. Not much to look at, right? Then we built some walls. And added some chevron to the walls. The yellow is Dylan Velvet b ...