NewlyWoodwards

an unconventional home

Renovation

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  • (Maybe) the final bedroom update

  • 2 years + lots of work = happiness

  • 2009’s here: Bedroom Edition

  • 2009’s here: Dining Room Edition

  • 2009’s here: Living Room Edition

  • 5 tips to create your own bathroom oasis (Video)

  • 6 things to try when you are in a home project “funk”

  • 99 problems and a house ain’t one

  • A barn apartment update

  • A barn bathroom and other updates

  • A barn beam mantel

  • A barn kitchen plan

  • A basement is born

  • A basement remodel by the in-laws

  • A big deck update

  • A budget kitchen remodel in a foreclosure

  • A budget-friendly patio update

  • A carriage garage door and red barn lights

  • A concrete floor in the laundry closet

  • A deck, a garden and hardwood floors

  • A dining room tour

  • A DIY Shaker peg rail for the mudroom

  • A dream (kitchen) come true

  • A dresser

  • A dresser for baby

  • A fireplace update

  • A full kitchen tour

  • A full-size fridge for our barn

  • A lighting plan for the new house

  • A little sneak peek

  • A little tile project

  • A modern-slash-rustic barn bathroom

  • A new door color and inviting entry at the barn

  • A new door color for the barn patio

  • A peek at the downstairs bathroom

  • A pretty little entry with lots of practical storage

  • A review: IKEA butcher block countertops and Waterlox finish

  • A staircase before and after

  • A tiny laundry room reveal

  • A tour of the barn bathroom and bedroom

  • Adding a tub to a tiny bathroom

  • All framed in

  • An entertainment area in the barn

  • An ode to a barn

  • An ode to the little details

  • An updated color on the kitchen island

  • Avoiding decision paralysis: How to decorate when you can’t visualize the final product

  • Barn apartment progress (and a barn wood wall sneaky peeky)

  • Barn rolling workbenches in Behr Starless Night

  • Barn wood range hood cover – the finishing touch

  • Basement plumbing, in-floor heat and walls

  • Bathroom before and afters

  • Bathroom revamp

  • Beautiful new deck railings (and a BLACK+DECKER giveaway)

  • Bedroom to bathroom revamp

  • Beech butcher block countertops – stained and sealed

  • Before and after – sunroom with vaulted ceiling

  • Before and After: Bedroom to Bathroom

  • Before and after: Bedrooms and bathrooms in the split level renovation

  • Before and after: Final flip photos and thoughts

  • Before and after: Modernizing the living room and kitchen in a split level renovation

  • Big changes on a tiny budget – Rental property renovation befores and afters

  • Breaking news: the barn has a toilet (and a faucet)

  • Building a retaining wall

  • Buying American-made

  • Carpet’s here!

  • Choosing a tile backsplash for the kitchen

  • Choosing bedroom paint colors

  • Choosing Engineered Wood Siding

  • Choosing wood flooring for new construction

  • Clean, classic and practical bathroom

  • Cleaning mini-blinds

  • Coming together quite nicely…

  • Completed windows

  • Cool breeze – my view on yard sales

  • Da chair

  • Dear cabinets: I think I’m gonna marry you

  • Dining room revamp

  • DIY Barnwood Vent Hood

  • DIY board and batten and classic bathroom upgrades

  • DIY fireplace hearth and stacked stone wall tile

  • DIY plaster walls and home progress

  • DIY screened porch

  • Doubling our counterspace!

  • Entry update

  • Everyone needs a large wood cow

  • Extra! Extra! We have a new (to us) house!

  • Farewell, friend

  • Farmhouse porch skirting

  • Finally, a photo wall

  • Finish dining room curtains

  • Floors on our new front porch

  • For sale

  • Framing walls in the new house

  • Frugal & Fabulous: Freeze-worthy

  • Frugal & Fabulous: Freeze-worthy

  • Getting a hex tile look (with vinyl)

  • Got wood?

  • Hexagon tile flowers in the bathroom

  • Hiding the A/C with a DIY pallet fence (and barn quilts)

  • House Painting Tips for Beginners

  • House-painting progress

  • How to finish yellow pine floors (without poly)

  • How to make a unique barn wood shelf | DIY

  • How to Store Leftover Paint

  • How we are finishing the basement on a budget

  • I ‘sink’ I love it

  • I (heart) Sarah Richardson

  • I’m a material girl

  • Ideas for a multipurpose room

  • IKEA nearly broke me

  • Indoor parking

  • Installing a subway tile backsplash

  • Installing floor trusses (and trusses vs. joists)

  • Installing IKEA kitchen cabinets, finishing butcher block countertops and sanding floors (renovation progress)

  • Installing wide-plank pine flooring

  • Installing wood flooring on walls

  • Jaw-dropping kitchen update

  • Junkin’

  • Kitchen silver sage refresh

  • Kitchen successes and failures

  • Lazy girl’s painting tips

  • Let there be (schoolhouse) lights

  • Let’s play a game

  • Little updates in the barn

  • Living in a barn

  • Living in a barn progress

  • Living room revamp

  • Making a window seat

  • Making the most of Menards rebates

  • Master bedroom revamp

  • Modesty has never been my best quality…

  • My dream curtains, at my dream price.

  • New hardware in the barn apartment

  • Now is the time to think about Christmas

  • On Big Lots

  • On selling a home

  • On selling a house, living in a barn, and being cursed

  • Our “sell this house” list

  • Our 3 secrets to affording home projects while building financial freedom

  • Our apartment renovation (mixing neutrals)

  • Our bedroom addition plan and progress

  • Our first flip – split level renovation project

  • Our First Renovation

  • Our home!

  • Our house today…..

  • Our master bedroom addition with classic green board and batten

  • Our updated living room

  • Paint swatches

  • Painting a concrete porch

  • Painting a house in a day

  • Painting aluminum siding

  • Painting doors (black and white)

  • Painting kitchen cabinets and walls in the rental

  • Painting kitchen cabinets at the barn

  • Painting the weekend away

  • Painting windows with the Wagner FLEXiO sprayer

  • Painting, trim and other barn updates

  • Porch progress and the baby-do list

  • Pretty (deep down) houses

  • Primed and painting

  • Projects

  • Rain boot shopping and my review

  • Raising the walls in the house

  • Renovation progress report – week 1

  • Renovation progress report – week 10

  • Renovation progress report – week 11

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  • Renovation progress report – week 2

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  • Renovation progress report – week 6

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  • Renovation progress report – week 8

  • Renovation progress report – week 9

  • Rental property updates

  • Rental Reno – bedrooms and recap

  • Rental Reno – kitchen and bathroom

  • Rental reno – living and dining rooms

  • Rental reno – outside and porch

  • Reusable usables

  • RIP to RIP

  • Rustic plank walls from old barn wood

  • Saving money while renovating a fixer-upper home

  • Sconce light fixture tour (bathrooms and bedroom)

  • Shake rattle and roll (shaker peg rail)

  • Siding progress (and thoughts on engineered wood siding)

  • So long, ugly fence

  • So many colors, so little time

  • Stairway inspiration: Square board and batten to hide damaged walls

  • Stairway to heaven (or just to the second floor)

  • Staying warm and a beacon of light

  • Summer In Style Outdoor Edition: Our comfortable family porch

  • Take a walk down our hallway…

  • The bedroom-slash-living room in the barn apartment

  • The couple’s guide to staying married during renovations

  • The dark side of IKEA

  • The diary of a headboard

  • The dogs are loving their new home

  • The Extra Bedroom Revamped!

  • The first week of renovation – good, bad and ugly

  • The good, the bad and the ugly of owning rental properties

  • The last winter

  • The most amazing, awesome DIY workbenches of all time in the history of ever (and a poll)

  • The next chapter

  • The next renovation project

  • The psychology of painting trim

  • The so-far house: Bathroom

  • The so-far house: Dining room

  • The so-far house: Exterior

  • The so-far house: Hallway and stairway

  • The so-far house: Kitchen

  • The so-far house: Living room

  • The so-far house: Master bedroom

  • The trouble with “cost per square foot”

  • This is a blog post about fresh cypress mulch

  • Thrifty Pretties

  • Top 10 Signs the Renovations are Underway

  • Trimming out a fireplace with barn wood

  • True board and batten barn siding (Barn raising progress)

  • Tung oil on wood floors | a review 2 years later

  • Upstairs bedroom revamp

  • Visions of windows dancing in my head…

  • Wallboard for Christmas (part 2)

  • Waterlox, built-ins and a basement

  • We (heart) IKEA

  • WE HAVE AN UPSTAIRS!

  • We’ve got walls and other barn apartment updates

  • Weigh in: Ceiling Fans

  • Weigh in: ideas for our farmhouse fireplace

  • Well, lookie there…

  • What to buy online when renovating or building a house

  • What we learned in 10 years of owning rental properties (and why we sold them)

  • When we make mistakes (Barn update)

  • Where we lay our head….

  • Who needs a truck?

  • Why I love my IKEA kitchen cabinets

  • Why I love sheet vinyl (and other barn apartment updates)

  • Your questions – answered