This week we hit ONE YEAR of owning our home. That means one year of construction, one year of learning, one year of dust, one year of...

Last week we had a great week off visiting with my cousin. We spent a day at the beach, spent time in the pool, got caught in our first...

Last week we finished up the trim in the boys' room and moved all the storage stuff back in there. I don't have a photo because the room...

This week felt like a huge weight was lifted off our (my?) shoulders. We finished the (second) guest room floor. When we originally...

I have super exciting news that I truly did not realize I would be so thrilled to share! Drumroll please.... WE HAVE GRASS!!! Since the...

After the mad dash to (mostly) finish the island last week, we took it easy this week, catching up on our netflix/Hulu shows throughout...

Full room update photos accompany the latest progress update on our kitchen island build!

This week we continued the uber-important project of the kitchen island. The island is what I'm thinking of as a "domino project",...

I missed a week of posting (forgive me?), but had a good reason. Or a couple reasons, really. Last week (and the week prior) Scott was...

There wasn't much progress this week in terms of heavy lifting/hard labor, it was a lot if baby steps. Last week we cut, sanded, routed,...

Last week we started the trim for the entry, yet I'm calling this week's post "Trim part 1" because this week was truly when the hard...

We've made it to the end of our tile saga! Monday of this week Scott and I finished the last step, grouting the tile. We were...

This week was the last of our short work-weeks- it's back to reality tomorrow- so we tried to cram as much work in last week as we could....

Ok, let's be honest, there's only so many ways to title my "progress" blog posts. I'm trying to get creative, bare with me. This week was...

We are officially under 3 weeks until we can install floors, which means under three weeks til Christmas as well! I don't know where this...

At this point I don't think it's fair to say the focus of this post is "progress" as that is technically the point of the entire blog,...

To say this week was a whirlwind would be an understatement. Scott and I have been running a hundred miles and our to reach our move in...

Every great "after" starts with a pretty awful "before". For us, our before consisted of a home built in the 1970s with very little...