During the late Summer of 2018 we made a decision to purchase an older home here in our small Midwest city. It might have seemed like a spu...

I'm very fortunate to have a long wall in the Hearth Room that can handle multiple pieces of furniture, and I've made use of it to ...

I love using tabletop and task lighting to give a room a comfortable intimate feeling. In this house it's not only for the ambiance, bu...

This is my first post since we moved in last week, and it's been a busy week for sure. We did this move in stages and it really paid of...

Next week is our final move of furniture, and officially we will "move in" and take up residence. We will still have things to go ...

We are getting furniture in place and unpacking "decor" throughout the new place, so I've been trying out ideas and moving pie...

I know to some of you our "move" seems unconventional to put it mildly. Even my husband commented last night that the way we'...

Hi Friends! Well, we're in the stage right now where we have most of the furniture at the new house, but also a lot of boxes starting to...

We had a busy last week with another partial move and then working over the weekend at the new house. This last trip we got my office fur...

We have one "move" down, probably two more to go. We are using a small moving company that we've used before and found a few ...

We didn't do a lot of huge projects here at the new house, but we had a lot of medium and small re-dos. The laundry room/bath was one ...

Hi Everyone, I thought I'd check in and let you know what we've been up to this last week or so. We had a great Christmas, but I...

This post is probably way more exciting for me personally than for any of you readers, but it's part of my documenting the progress of ...

We've been working weekends at the new house, and I've been spending at least one day a week there working on my own. We tend to wo...

We're making a lot of headway at the new house, with several things coming to completion. The hardwood floors were installed before Than...

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. We worked most of the weekend painting the laundry/bath and Hearth Room/Kitchen. One project we too...

These photos are really not blogworthy, because they were taken with my phone and the lighting is so poor in these rooms. The little chandel...

Even though we're working on the new house with it pretty much in disarray and a lot going on, I still have that need to scatter a li...

It's so hard to believe that it's actually October now... and that it's my favorite time of the year, AND that I don't even ...

We're making progress through the process of buying this house. This last week we've negotiated the inspection results; nothing maj...