Between Two Pheasants...

Spoiler Alert: We LOVE our mudroom and new bathroom. If you want to skip to the bottom of this post to see the end result, go for it! If you want to know why it's taken me eight months to write another blog post, keep reading. Want to know something funny? Our mudroom/bathroom renovation that was supposed to finish in one month, took three months. Okay, that's not funny, but at least now (6 months later) we can start to laugh about it. Let's back up to January when we were supposed to finish our bathroom right about the time I started a new job, a significant promotion (I may add). End of January. We were no where near having laundry back in our house let alone a usable second toilet. Nothing stressful about that. 😒 Here's what our room looked like on my first day of my new job:  Hey, but at least we had an exterior wall again! There was 1.5 things that made us jump the rails on the schedule around mid-January. #1 Plumber I really can't even expres...

Hey friends and family! The last few months have been wild, but seriously productive as we made progress on the plans for our laundry room and bathroom.

One of the reasons why I'm not blogging as much any more is that we've checked a lot of "To Do" items off our list. Well, at least the small ones. What's left are the big, nasty, complex projects that, truthfully, are outside of the Handyman and my wheelhouse. I'm also a planner and these biggie (not Smalls) projects take a lot of thinking, and lets be honest, SAVING. Next on the how-to-renovate-this-old-home-for-our-modern-family-list , is remodeling our mudroom and 1/2 bathroom on the first floor. You may be asking yourself, "The guest bath? The laundry room?" Yes, the guest bath and laundry. What I really want to renovate is the 2nd floor main bathroom. What I really DON'T want to do is move out of our house or spend weeks showering/bathing at the gym. So, guest bath and laundry room it is because we are also adding a shower! Here's what the current disaster space looks like:  Bathroom inside the mudroom. I enliste...

Another year has come and gone and so much and so little has changed. I think we can all agree that the dumpster fire that we anticipated in our federal administration is actually here. Instead of feeling sad and frustrated at all the things that we can't change, I'm choosing to focus on the things that we can...like home renovation (and fueling the resistance in small ways)! It's been a great year as we've made progress inside and out on our 1915 American Foursquare . The year started off strong with a renovation in Cinderella's room (I just posted that final project even though it started in February--eek)... And, the Handyman and I spent a super sexy weekend without kids insulating our attic. Can you spot the African Tribal wallpaper in the closet? 😆 In the Spring, we started on the kitchen remodel and O-M-G! It's made a huge difference in how we cook and spend time in there. Still So.Very. Small, but light, bright and modern! And how about...