Well, if you read Young House Love, you may be familiar with how they got rid of all their backyard landscaping, with no backbreaking work, through Craigslist. Well, this inspired Ryan and I when we were trying to get rid of our own eyesore. This fence. This fence was installed at the small house many […]
Got wood?
I believe in many things – including life, liberty, and the pursuit of original hardwood floors. They’ve got character, they’ve got depth, they’ve got history. This is a more-in-detail post about the floors, since you all seem to have a crush on original hardwood floors like we do. Our home was build sometime between 1910 […]
Rental Reno – kitchen and bathroom
Next up in the bungalow rental property – the kitchen and bathroom. (Check out the living room/dining room and outside updates.) Here’s the kitchen. Before, it had very old base cabinets in a lovely shade of light yellow. No upper cabinets to be seen.What we did: Ripped out the base cabinets and dumped them. […]
Rental reno – living and dining rooms
Now it’s time to move into the living and dining rooms at the little house. (Wanna see more? Check out the kitchen and outside updates.) It’s really quite charming. Original woodwork, lovely hardwood floors. Although at the beginning, it looked like this: Because I’m a mind-reader, I know what you are thinking – […]
Rental reno – outside and porch
A few of you have asked about our little fixer-upper, which we purchased in December. The first mention of it is here. We got a deal we couldn’t pass up on this foreclosure, plus it was only two blocks from our house. Ryan wanted to try his hand at rental, so we went ahead and […]
Front porch dreams
I really hope that someday we build a front porch on our house. I mentioned it here, and I’m still trying to convince Ryan of the importance of having a place to sip iced tea, read the newspaper and take cover from the rain. In came my friend Kellie, who put together a few visuals […]
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