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My husband and I are gutting and remodeling our 242 year old house in New England. While we're living in it! I mention anything from historical houses, demo, painting, construction, finishes, websites to buy house products (that I find on my own.. none have paid me or given me anything for mentioning them), floor plans, designs, gardening, chickens.. the list goes on!

2012 in Review

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Published on Wednesday, 02 January 2013

Authors: Ryan and Shelley

It has been over 6 months since my last post here and you may be wondering why. We found out earlier this year that we were going to be having a baby in 2013! I spent the first couple months exhausted, and between that and work, there just wasn't much time for house renovations. Once I got a tiny shred of my energy back,...

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A New Floor and a Fun Discovery!

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Published on Sunday, 30 December 2012

Authors: Ryan and Shelley


Tonight we ripped up the ugly blue wall-to-wall carpeting in the Twilight Room. Yuck. Good riddance! Blue is one of my favorite colors, but this rug had to be one of the most obnoxious things in the world! Especially when combined with the maroon, pink, and black that was on the walls when we bought it. Ick.


Our original...

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A Fence

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Published on Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Authors: Ryan and Shelley


When we were house hunting we always said our first house project would be to install a fence for our dog Madison. Here we are, 1 1/2 years after buying the house, and we are finally putting in that fence! The fence delay has really been for many reasons. One, our yard is huge, so fencing it in is very costly. A...

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First Floor Bathroom Plans

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Published on Friday, 16 March 2012

Authors: Ryan and Shelley


Our downstairs bathroom qualifies as one of the most unpleasant rooms in the house. I will go upstairs to use the bathroom, even if I am in the living room right next to the downstairs bathroom.

This room has resulted in a lot of discussion, confusion, ideas, and changes. If you asked me a year ago what we were doing with...

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Living Room Cabinet

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Published on Thursday, 15 March 2012

Authors: Ryan and Shelley


We have two amazing corner cabinets in our house. One in the Living Room and one in the Dining Room. Before R's birthday party in November, I cleaned off the Dining Room cabinet and put some dishes on the shelves, so that I could get rid of some boxes and set up a table in there. It's not finished or acceptable in my...

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Goodbye Paint!

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Published on Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Authors: Ryan and Shelley


Our Living Room is still 3/4 done. There's just that little 25% of the room left keeping me from officially finishing the room. That 25% is the reason there's nothing on the shelves. No rug. No curtains. Nothing on the walls.

Well, I've had enough. I want a rug. I want curtains. I want a pretty Living Room that I'm...

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Not So Scary Anymore..

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Published on Monday, 16 January 2012

Authors: Ryan and Shelley


This is actually a project I finished over the summer, but I finally just took pictures of it this week. Between work, other projects and a LOT of cloudy days, I had an excuse every day for months.

You'll remember from earlier posts that this is the room we've dubbed The Twilight Room. When we first viewed the house it was...

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Our 2011 Goals... How'd We Do??

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Published on Friday, 06 January 2012

Authors: Ryan and Shelley


First off, here's the list. Most of the finished tasks link to my progress posts.

*Finish the Kitchen I'd say it's 90% done.. we're almost there!
*Landscaping the front yard Instead of doing this, I did a little landscaping in the backyard (my sidewalk)
*Cleaning up the front entrance/porch
*Get the rest of our boxes from...

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Our Second Christmas in the House

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Published on Friday, 06 January 2012

Authors: Ryan and Shelley


This Christmas was a little different than last year. I decorated more, for one thing. We had more finished (or semi-finished) rooms. It was also nice to be able to do a lot of baking in the kitchen. Having a kitchen table again definitely helped! I think I made over 25 dozen cookies (some of which I brought around to our...

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Party Deadline

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Published on Monday, 12 December 2011

Authors: Ryan and Shelley


It has now been exactly one month since the big party.. which means that I haven't blogged in over a month.

In case you're wondering, we did meet our party deadline. Well, kinda. We didn't finish everything on the schedule, but that was partly because we lost a week and a weekend due to the power outage. But I was still...

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