This week marks the 5 years that we have lived in our home. It’s crazy to think how much we have done in our home as well as how much we still want to do! If you just moved into your home, or planning on moving soon, I’m going to share what I am happy …
Raised ranch
You know when I come on here and I tell you about a new project and sometimes I am usually doing a happy dance about it? Well for this project..still an awesome one, I think it might be the hubby doing all the happy dancing for this one. But that’s not really a sight you …
It’s final reveal time and it feels so good! Living in a raised ranch or split level as some of you call it, the entry always seems to be a problem when it comes to decorating or storage. We mostly use our side door to come in the home so storage wasn’t a concern for us, …
I have never liked our entry way. We live in, what we New Yorker’s call a raised ranch. You might call them split entry or bi-level. Our entry never looked finished after we created the bookshelf on the other side. It was kinda just blah. I decided to brighten up the whole space and shiplap …
This was totally unplanned, but I have always wanted it to happen. The tile in our entry, to me, was just plain ugly. It kind of had a mauve/blush undertone that was always fighting with the wall color and the stairs (which will be restained soon!). While we were putting up the planking on the …
Sometimes living in a raised ranch you have to deal with odd things. (Before you yell, in NY we call it a raised ranch. Where you live it might be called a split or bi-level.) The odd thing in our home is the coat closet at the top of our stairs does not have a …
Our downstairs family room is I think, the last room we haven’t really touched since we moved in 2 1/2 years ago and it completely looked like it. The only thing we did was paint. Now when I say paint I mean, I was literally painting the room the day I went to the hospital …
Before we bought a house I knew I wanted to have a HUGE garden. I wanted to grow everything, from cucumbers to peppers and potatoes. We moved into our home in May 2013 so being pregnant and trying to get the house ready before little man came was the main priority. So we didn’t get …
I can finally say after years of purchasing our home, that we have ONE room completely done! Our dining room! When we looked at the house for a second time before we put in an offer this is how the dining room looked. This is how it looks today… I waited a year for my …
My parents are fantastic. Every time they take the 4.5 hour journey to come visit us, I immediately take out my Master List on what projects I would like to work on while they are here. Either it’s for them to help me, or just to watch the little guy while I finish a project. …
Our downstairs family room is one of the rooms where we haven’t really done much since moving in except for painting…but yes there are a lot of plans in my head for this room…. The hearth around the wood stove was brick. But it wasn’t just brick, it was brick RED and I hated it. …
When we started house hunting I knew I didn’t want a Raised Ranch or some of you call it a split entry. But that is what we got and I had to make the most of it. At the top of the stairs was a typical raised ranch iron railing. I hated it. I felt …