When we gutted the hallway, we found some gorgeous wallpaper samples. It was badly damaged and falling to pieces, but I did manage to get some good photos of it before we decimated things. Here, you can see how it was applied – it may have gone all the way up the wall at some […]

Tomorrow morning, we leave for Brimfield with a very small wad of cash and a truck. Any bets on what we’ll come back with, or how over-budget we’ll accidentally go? Given the size of the show, I have a feeling we may be too overwhelmed to even make a purchase…. ?

We haven’t made too much progress on our hallway since gutting it, but I’m finally getting around to sharing the pics. We were hoping to find a wad of cash in the wall, but so far no luck. Instead, we found lots of sketchy looking wiring (including electrical outlets that weren’t attached to anything solid, […]

This Friday we’re headed out to “New England’s largest antique show” in Brimfield, Massachusetts. It’s a MASSIVE outdoor show (5000+ dealers) that takes over the small city 3 times a year. This is our first trip out there, and should prove to be interesting. We’ll be bringing the camera, and you can expect a post-mortem […]

Grace Bonney, editor of the inspiring design*sponge blog, has impeccable taste. On her blog, she highlights unique and beautiful house products. The picks are mostly modern, so they’d fit perfectly in a NYC loft apartment, but not so perfectly in our middle-o-nowhere fixer-upper. Every now and then, though, I see something I think we could […]

Get your mind out of the gutter, would you? While I have no cool photos to post (left the camera at a party this past weekend, but it will be back home soon!), rest assured we spent most of our holiday weekend tackling home improvement projects. In fact, we managed to gut the rest of […]