Well, hello there.

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So I’ve been thinking about starting a blog… for about 6 years.

In the summer of 2012 my husband, Lucius, and I bought our first home – a cute little one story, two-bedroom, one-bathroom house that was pretty much a white box, aside from the wallpaper in the kitchen and the pink tile in the bathroom. 

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I’ve always been creative. I love art and I even have my degree in painting. I suppose it was only natural that I made my home my canvas. To my delight, Lucius quickly jumped aboard the home renovation train. Shortly after we started making home improvements, I toyed with the idea of starting a blog to document our renovations, certainly inspired by my favorite DIY blog YoungHouseLove.com. As I often do, I talked myself out of it and continued renovating simply for the love of renovating.

Five years later, we snagged a gorgeous two-story, four-bedroom, one-and-a-half bath 1927 American Foursquare. From these two houses we learned so much about home renovations, from HVAC, plumbing, and installing windows to painting, stripping wallpaper, and the best way to hang curtains.

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Unfortunately, due to circumstances out of our control, we had to make the decision to move out of that amazing and historic home last fall. At the end of October, we moved into a two-story, four-bedroom, two full and one half bath French Provincial-style house.

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My family lives a couple of hours away. When I visited this past Thanksgiving I was a little overwhelmed by how many of my family members wanted to see pictures of the house and our plans for renovating it. Historically I’ve kept a fairly good account of our progress on our homes on Facebook but have been slacking on this house because, simply, life is crazy, and we have a 4-year-old and an 8-month-old. But thinking about it, I realized we’ve only lived here about 4 months and have already started making so many updates (we just can’t help ourselves!) and got the urge to start documenting our progress again. So here I am, beginning this exciting (and admittedly intimidating) journey. Stay tuned!