Our 1920 Bungalow

my journal.

a journal for occasional musings around art, design, and cultivating a life well lived through seeing the beauty in the everyday!

Fireplace Redo

I knew when I first saw this fireplace I would redo it. Due to budget constraints, resurfacing this out the gate wasn't a possibility. I...

interior paint complete

We are almost a week out from our move and it is starting to feel very real. I'm going to be honest with you, I have barely thought about...

and it's done (well, the outside anyway)

Come on in... at least that's what I feel like my front porch is saying with my absolute fave part - that yellow front door. And if I'm...

choosing more paint colors

Interior paint starts next week and now I have to get serious about selecting colors. Now, I like color, but I find it is much easier to...

Still a work in progress

This week the exterior painters have been at the house and our guy starts on the crawl space tomorrow. There have been quite a few...

Exterior Paint - getting closer

Thanks to for the encouragement from so many of you on my post yesterday about Easter. And thanks for allowing me to express myself. I...

help

Picking exterior colors for a home seems trivial giving what is going on around us and I honestly am only sharing these things because...

a little house tour

Like any 1920 craftsman bungalow our new little place boasts a large front porch and a lot of the characteristics you would expect from...

We are buying a house...

Yes, in all of this craziness we are buying a house. We went under contract right before the world seemed to fall apart. And I'm not...