NewlyWoodwards

an unconventional home

Dear cabinets: I think I’m gonna marry you

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The kitchen is probably the room I’m most excited about in the new house. In our last two houses, the kitchen was totally separate from the rest of the home. Which isn’t ideal. It’s not ideal for an extrovert cooking dinner (torture). It’s not ideal for a mom trying to keep an eye on a […]

Getting a hex tile look (with vinyl)

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Remember that one time my husband nearly lost his mind over hexagon floor tile? I wanted that hexagon tile so badly in our last house – but in the end, I really hated that floor. Well, we didn’t need to repeat that fiasco. I’ve already professed my love for sheet vinyl – it’s cheap, it’s quick, it’s easy. […]

Choosing bedroom paint colors

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Painting continues in the new house. Which means it’s looking more and more like a house. Which means I’m getting more and more anxious to move in. Typical. The bedrooms are not huge, but have 12 foot ceilings in some spots. So I’ve been up and down on scaffolding trying to cut in the ceilings. […]

A concrete floor in the laundry closet

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Laundry rooms are a necessary evil. Washing and drying clothes are not my favorite things, but I don’t foresee a time when I’ll have a person who does it for us (darn). We’ve lived in several homes and each has had a totally unique laundry situation and when it was time to design our new home, laundry […]

Installing wide-plank pine flooring

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If you need me, I’ll be in the house, petting our new wood floors. That’s normal, right? If this is wrong, I just don’t want to be right. Once the walls were painted and the fireplace was concreted and stoned (those are totally verbs at the Woodwards), it was time to lay the floors. As a quick reminder, we […]

A makeshift playroom in the basement

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Did you know that the basement of our new house is larger than our entire current apartment? Yeah. I couldn’t let that space go unused – even if we aren’t in the house yet. It’s officially a makeshift playroom, and we are digging it. This isn’t a perfectly styled space, but you’ll forgive that, right? (Let’s […]