Category Archives: The Fixer Upper

Week of Thanks: A Place to Gather

I am ever so thankful for this old house. Particularly the kitchen.  It’s not a dream kitchen. It has a few modern things in it, but living in the old house I like to respect that it is an old house. I don’t want to make everything new. (Though hopefully in the next year it will get...

Window Table

So, I don’t know if you all remember, but I told you that we replaced 14 windows this past year in my front porch. I kept some of them and have been making things out of them, like these. Well, one of the first projects we did,  and have just now finished, (because that the...

The Wall

It’s been a while since I did any kind of update on This Old House. There’s always something going on around here. Constant change and work, and I imagine someday I will tire of it. But for now, watching this place bloom into what is has…..has just been plain fun for me. Even if there are...

Home Improvement

The old house has had a few updates in the last couple of months. We’ve been enjoying everything single thing that gets done around here. We replaced the carpet in the loft. It’s creamy now. Brighter than before and MUCH softer. (It had flat office type carpet in it before, not terrible, but not me.)...