This weekend, our kitchen took another giant step away from a drab, dirty, box of a room we hate to an attractive and functional room we actually WANT to use and spend time in. First, the goodies we purchased to make it happen: A Whitehaus double-bowl farmer sink from Buykitchensinks.com and a very pretty Pegasus […]

We have a few ceilings that could really use a facelift, since popcorn ceilings don’t really say “victorian home” to me. Here’s a step-by-step demonstration of how to get rid of the popcorn look – thought some of you guys might need this also ;) http://www.jasongraphix.com/archive/2005/08/popcorn_ceiling

When we bought our house, the stove and fridge were freebies thrown in with the deal. Which I’m sure was no heartbreaking loss for the sellers, because they’re the ugliest set of appliances you’ll ever see. Ok, maybe not the ugliest – my mother owned an avacado green washing machine. But they’re right up there, […]

A few weeks ago, I got this undeniable urge to give our living room some love. It’s the room we spend most of our free time in, but we’ve spent very little time fixing it up. It wasn’t a quick-fix room, so it just got ignored. The huge bulging cracks and holes were artfully hid […]

The day we moved in, the front entryway had three broken windows. Two were glass (one with duct tape keeping it together) and one had a plexiglass replacement “pane” in it. Since the insurance companies aren’t fond of broken windows, we’ve been working on replacing them. We wanted to keep it authentic, so we went […]

I’ve decided to add a category for how-to’s, so we can share some of the tricks and techniques we’re learning (and other fixer-uppers can tack theirs on as well). For the first how-to, I’m starting with something easy ;) One of the things we’ve been working on this week is removing old wallpaper from the […]