Ok, so it isn’t exactly appropriate for a historic house, but this is the most inventive wallpaper I’ve ever seen, second only to Willy Wonka’s lickable hallway wallpaper.

As promised, here are the photos of our hallway after my battle with the rainbow rug: The disintegrated carpet pad along with 2 out of 3 of the tools I used (the other was a hammer) The “after” shot. Ignore the unmade bed. A good shot of the pink tin tiles. You can see where […]

On Saturday, I got one of those rare burts in energy that makes me want to run around the house tackling the largest, most tiring projects I can find. Maybe it was the break in the 90-degree weather, or the 4 cups of coffee I’d gulped down that morning. Or maybe it has something to […]

Everyone knows our floors are a mess. What you may not know is how badly this sometimes depresses me. Mostly because, no matter what we do to to the interior decor, the floors stare back at me in all their paint-spattered, buckled, worn out glory. There is no escaping them. The other day, I decided […]

Thought I’d make myself feel better by posting a before and “during” (because of course, there’s always more work to be done to ALL our rooms) of our living room. It’s not great now, but it is MILES away from where it started……. For two young newlyweds on a budget, paint is the best thing […]

Thought I’d make myself feel better by posting a before and “during” (because of course, there’s always more work to be done to ALL our rooms) of our living room. It’s not great now, but it is MILES away from where it started……. For two young newlyweds on a budget, paint is the best thing […]

Another week has flown by…. we’ve been hopping from project to project, including Teague’s new business (which is really taking off!). I promised a photo of the newly repainted living room, so here’s a comparison shot – you can see how much louder the first color was: I like the new color much better, and […]

Like many of our fellow housebloggers, we had a productive weekend. The garage sale was a bust despite my 6 brightly-colored signs and newspaper ad, but we donated most of the leftovers so they will live on in someone else’s house. Ours is one ounce less messy, and that’s enough to make me happy. And […]

This weekend, we’re holding our first garage sale since moving in. When my parents ran off in their RV, they left us with a bunch of new-to-us stuff. Their stuff was better than our stuff, so our stuff went away into storage. Now, it’s time to finally get rid of it, and I can’t wait. […]

Cumberland Woodcraft carries a reproduction wallpaper that exactly matches the type we found when exploring our cupola. They are part of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum inspired line. This one is on the walls and ceiling, and this one is very similar to the border used with it. Pretty cool, right? I’m a fan of pretty paper, […]