This blog is all about our life – renovated.
We (heart) renovating.
Check out our houses we have renovated, or read more about specific projects below.
Our master bedroom addition with classic green board and batten
DIY board and batten and classic bathroom upgrades
Our bedroom addition plan and progress
Before and after: Final flip photos and thoughts
Before and after: Bedrooms and bathrooms in the split level renovation
Before and after: Modernizing the living room and kitchen in a split level renovation
Before and after – sunroom with vaulted ceiling
Our first flip – split level renovation project
Farmhouse porch skirting
What we learned in 10 years of owning rental properties (and why we sold them)
How we are finishing the basement on a budget
Tung oil on wood floors | a review 2 years later
Installing a subway tile backsplash
Adding a tub to a tiny bathroom
An updated color on the kitchen island
Ideas for a multipurpose room
Installing wood flooring on walls
Avoiding decision paralysis: How to decorate when you can’t visualize the final product
Our 3 secrets to affording home projects while building financial freedom
Summer In Style Outdoor Edition: Our comfortable family porch
6 things to try when you are in a home project “funk”
The trouble with “cost per square foot”
Barn wood range hood cover – the finishing touch
House Painting Tips for Beginners
Choosing a tile backsplash for the kitchen
The couple’s guide to staying married during renovations
Building a retaining wall
DIY screened porch
What to buy online when renovating or building a house
A peek at the downstairs bathroom
Painting doors (black and white)
A DIY Shaker peg rail for the mudroom
DIY Barnwood Vent Hood
Sconce light fixture tour (bathrooms and bedroom)
Choosing Engineered Wood Siding
A barn beam mantel
Getting a hex tile look (with vinyl)
A concrete floor in the laundry closet
How to Store Leftover Paint
DIY fireplace hearth and stacked stone wall tile
Primed and painting
Choosing wood flooring for new construction
DIY plaster walls and home progress
Weigh in: Ceiling Fans
Wallboard for Christmas (part 2)
Floors on our new front porch
Our apartment renovation (mixing neutrals)
Weigh in: ideas for our farmhouse fireplace
Siding progress (and thoughts on engineered wood siding)
Painting kitchen cabinets and walls in the rental
Framing walls in the new house
The good, the bad and the ugly of owning rental properties
All framed in
A lighting plan for the new house
Raising the walls in the house
A tiny laundry room reveal
A budget-friendly patio update
Installing floor trusses (and trusses vs. joists)
Basement plumbing, in-floor heat and walls
Hiding the A/C with a DIY pallet fence (and barn quilts)
A basement is born
99 problems and a house ain’t one
An entertainment area in the barn
On selling a house, living in a barn, and being cursed
Painting a house in a day
An ode to the little details
Barn rolling workbenches in Behr Starless Night
New hardware in the barn apartment
The most amazing, awesome DIY workbenches of all time in the history of ever (and a poll)
The bedroom-slash-living room in the barn apartment
A tour of the barn bathroom and bedroom
Beech butcher block countertops – stained and sealed
How to make a unique barn wood shelf | DIY
Little updates in the barn
A new door color for the barn patio
Everyone needs a large wood cow
A full-size fridge for our barn
A new door color and inviting entry at the barn
Breaking news: the barn has a toilet (and a faucet)
Painting kitchen cabinets at the barn
For sale
Lazy girl’s painting tips
This is a blog post about fresh cypress mulch
Our “sell this house” list
The psychology of painting trim
Why I love sheet vinyl (and other barn apartment updates)
Painting, trim and other barn updates
Living in a barn progress
Beautiful new deck railings (and a BLACK+DECKER giveaway)
A deck, a garden and hardwood floors
Rustic plank walls from old barn wood
Barn apartment progress (and a barn wood wall sneaky peeky)
A barn bathroom and other updates
We’ve got walls and other barn apartment updates
Saving money while renovating a fixer-upper home
A modern-slash-rustic barn bathroom
A barn kitchen plan
Staying warm and a beacon of light
Making the most of Menards rebates
A barn apartment update
When we make mistakes (Barn update)
A big deck update
Painting windows with the Wagner FLEXiO sprayer
Rain boot shopping and my review
Living in a barn
A dream (kitchen) come true
Cleaning mini-blinds
Painting a concrete porch
Big changes on a tiny budget – Rental property renovation befores and afters
Rental property updates
Bathroom before and afters
5 tips to create your own bathroom oasis (Video)
A review: IKEA butcher block countertops and Waterlox finish
Why I love my IKEA kitchen cabinets
A full kitchen tour
A dining room tour
Our updated living room
Jaw-dropping kitchen update
A pretty little entry with lots of practical storage
An ode to a barn
Porch progress and the baby-do list
A fireplace update
A dresser for baby
A little tile project
Completed windows
Finally, a photo wall
Entry update
Indoor parking
The so-far house: Kitchen
Finish dining room curtains
A little sneak peek
The so-far house: Hallway and stairway
Painting aluminum siding
The so-far house: Living room
House-painting progress
A basement remodel by the in-laws
The next chapter
The next renovation project
The so-far house: Dining room
The so-far house: Bathroom
The so-far house: Exterior
The so-far house: Master bedroom
Well, lookie there…
Renovation progress report – week 54
Renovation progress report – week 53
Renovation progress report – week 52
Renovation progress report – week 51
Renovation progress report – week 50
Renovation progress report – week 49
Renovation progress report – week 48
On selling a home
Renovation progress report – week 47
Renovation progress report – week 46
Waterlox, built-ins and a basement
A dresser
Installing IKEA kitchen cabinets, finishing butcher block countertops and sanding floors (renovation progress)
Kitchen successes and failures
Renovation progress report – week 43
Renovation progress report – week 42
My dream curtains, at my dream price.
Renovation progress report – week 41
IKEA nearly broke me
Renovation progress report – week 40
Farewell, friend
Renovation progress report – week 39
Renovation progress report – week 38
Renovation progress report – week 37
Stairway inspiration: Square board and batten to hide damaged walls
Renovation progress report – week 35
Renovation progress report – week 34
Renovation progress report – week 33
Renovation progress report – week 32
Projects
Renovation progress report – week 31
Renovation progress report – week 30
Renovation progress report – week 29
Before and After: Bedroom to Bathroom
Renovation progress report – week 28
Hexagon tile flowers in the bathroom
Renovation progress report – week 27
I’m a material girl
Renovation progress report – week 26
Paint swatches
Renovation progress report – week 25
Renovation progress report – week 24
The last winter
Renovation progress report – week 23
Buying American-made
Renovation progress report – week 22
Renovation progress report – week 21
Now is the time to think about Christmas
Renovation progress report – week 19
Renovation progress report – week 17
Renovation progress report – week 16
Renovation progress report – week 15
Renovation progress report – week 14
Your questions – answered
Renovation progress report – week 13
Reusable usables
Renovation progress report – week 12
So many colors, so little time
Renovation progress report – week 11
Renovation progress report – week 10
Renovation progress report – week 9
Renovation progress report – week 8
Renovation progress report – week 7
We (heart) IKEA
Let there be (schoolhouse) lights
Renovation progress report – week 6
Stairway to heaven (or just to the second floor)
Renovation progress report – week 5
Shake rattle and roll (shaker peg rail)
Renovation progress report – week 4
Clean, classic and practical bathroom
Renovation progress report – week 3
Renovation progress report – week 2
Da chair
Renovation progress report – week 1
The first week of renovation – good, bad and ugly
Extra! Extra! We have a new (to us) house!
The dark side of IKEA
Let’s play a game
Cool breeze – my view on yard sales
On Big Lots
I ‘sink’ I love it
Pretty (deep down) houses
Junkin’
I (heart) Sarah Richardson
(Maybe) the final bedroom update
Kitchen silver sage refresh
Our First Renovation
A staircase before and after
Rental Reno – bedrooms and recap
So long, ugly fence
Got wood?
Rental Reno – kitchen and bathroom
Rental reno – living and dining rooms
Rental reno – outside and porch
Upstairs bedroom revamp
Master bedroom revamp
Making a window seat
Trying to pull it together (office edition)
A budget kitchen remodel in a foreclosure
Dining room revamp
Living room revamp
Bathroom revamp
2 years + lots of work = happiness
Thrifty Pretties
Frugal & Fabulous: Freeze-worthy
Frugal & Fabulous: Freeze-worthy
Painting the weekend away
2009’s here: Bedroom Edition
2009’s here: Dining Room Edition
The diary of a headboard
Modesty has never been my best quality…
Who needs a truck?
Top 10 Signs the Renovations are Underway
Take a walk down our hallway…
Coming together quite nicely…
RIP to RIP
Our house today…..
Our home!
an unconventional home
This blog is all about our life – renovated.
We (heart) renovating.
Check out our houses we have renovated, or read more about specific projects below.