We’ve been living in our new place for about a month now. Unfinished projects are everywhere… paint and hang doors, dining room shiplap walls, porch ceiling, but this unfinished mess is all ours! I thought it would be kind of neat to chronicle our fixer upper so here’s just the first video in what might be an endless playlist of YouTube videos for your enjoyment. That is if you like this kind of thing….
We bought a house! After what seemed like a million showings and open houses we found the perfect house for us. It’s a one story 3 bedroom, 1 bath rambler, with a basement ‘full of potential’ in South Minneapolis. It’s biggest drawback at the moment is it’s down right UGLY. Literally all but one room is covered in 90s wallpaper. I think I counted a total of 13 different wallpaper patterns!…
This dresser was actually Joel’s dad’s dresser as a young kid growing up and it was passed onto us when we moved in together a couple of years ago. It’s a wonderful dresser, but the bleach blonde wood color and random crayon drawings on the side that didn’t really go with the rest of our decor. There’s nothing a gallon of paint can’t fix! I chose a sort of muted…
Our bedroom is bare bones at the moment. What you see in the photo above is all that’s there, but I’m really enjoying a minimalist bedroom. It helps to relax my mind before bed, instead of running with ideas on how to reorganize, like our last place, which was very much on the small side! I kinda want new side table lamps and shades. I really LOVE this base with this lamp…
Rug options clockwise from upper left: West Elm sweater wool rug in charcoal $399 [on sale], RugsUSA elegance cotton stripe $291 [on sale], Target threshold twist area rug $299, West Elm sweater wool rug in oatmeal $399 [on sale] Our new couch arrived. It smells super wonderful, like a really nice new pair of riding boots in a woodworking shop, ya know. I’m trying to slowly layer our home starting with…
