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 ...

We left sunny California behind in the middle of January so that Frank could begin at his new job up here in Seattle. All our things were packed up and were being trucked up to Seattle, leaving the three of us with 3 suitcases and ...

For some people, all they want for Christmas are two front teeth, or a hippopotamus, for others, it's an adventure. Put us in the last category. When we sold our house in the spring of (now) last year, we were intending to send th ...

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 ...

Here is a project I just finished for a family I know up in Newport Beach (Mr. and Mrs C). They are fellow homeschoolers  and just recently moved down to Newport Beach from LA. They were four months into their new home w ...

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 ...

During our almost 20 year of marriage, Frank and I have moved a LOT. In fact 8 times in the past 16 years while Frank and I have lived here in the States. We moved here from Denmark in 2000. You would think that I hate to move by ...

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 ...

We have some exciting news to share with you. Something which we have been planning for quite a while - ever since last year in fact - has come to fruition. Oh what could it be. See, now it's exciting for you too. Uhm. Frank and ...

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 ...