We live in an old farmhouse. It’s drafty, it’s dusty, and it’s in a consistent state of renovations. That being said, our laundry room was becoming a cluttered catch-all. Originally the laundry room was closed off from the kitchen, and there was an entrance from the hallway, but the hallway is so narrow, and we…
Tag: home renovations
DIY Shelves
There’s a long narrow closet off of our upstairs hallway. I’m not sure why it exists, but it’s been wasted space since we moved in. There used to be a door on it, but we removed it when we knocked out the attic stairs that were near it to make the upstairs hallway more open…
Harry Potter’s Cleaning Closet
There’s a small doorway in our living room/library that enters a closet under the stairway. I think it’s a bit smaller than Harry’s closet, but nevertheless, we always call it the Harry Potter Closet. It was packed full of miscellaneous art canvases, bins of Legos, puzzles and games, and anything else that didn’t have a…
March Madness Comes Early!
February always turns crazy busy for us. I generally start modeling for the semester. Cookie booth season starts. There’s always a project or two. The weather is unpredictable, so it’s a complete guess on how much we will suffer each weekend at a cookie booth. Fun times… Our current project is finishing our upstairs hallway…
Spare Bedroom Makeover
One of the first rooms we did when we moved into the house was the spare bedroom. We had sold our house and moved into tiny barn in October of 2015, and we had a few months of limbo while we waited to see if our loaning bank, the bank that owned the house, and…