hen we first bought our home earlier this year, we didn’t notice the slight negative slope of a small portion of the yard back toward the house. Overall, the yard was nicely sloping away from the house so it wasn’t very noticeable. It wasn’t until our basement flooded that we realized we needed to fix […]

Our living room was the space I was most looking forward to decorating when we moved. I created a style board and everything. My vision for it was to be modern, eclectic, clean, and comfortable. By clean, I don’t mean dusted and vacuumed, but rather, uncluttered. And after several months now, I finally feel like […]

I am so excited to be able to have a real guest bedroom in our new house. In our condo, the 2nd bedroom was a closet, office, storage room, and guest bedroom all in one. In fact, we ran out of room and had to just prop the mattress up against the wall towards the […]

Since we’ve purchased our house two months ago, we’ve been able to see the comings and goings of our new neighbors from our kitchen window (oh, the things you can learn!), but–with the exception of one man next door to us–no one has said hello to us! NO ONE (with the exception of the one […]