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Also in the wish-they-still-sold-them category, these leather ottomans are from Target maybe 4 years ago? I am in love with them and wish they’d bring them back. And yes that’s our beloved air purifier in the corner there with the gray cover. It blends in so much better than the old black cover we used to have. We also get asked where things like trash cans are in our rooms.
Our First House: Before & After Photos
I love these things and remember packing them within an inch of their life when we moved here because I never want anything to happen to them. Here’s that same space now that we built a deck, got it furnished, and switched out that old broken slider for a brand new french door. We later stained & sealed the deck to finish things off. There was a weird alley between the original part of the house and the addition that was added in the seventies, and this is a shot we took during our first walk-through.
Painting A Closet Door Pink & Raindrops On The Wall
Like our instinct in this room was to place it BETWEEN THE WINDOWS but it’s so much nicer of a view to look outside now – versus staring at the slice of wall between two windows before (you can see the old placement here). They dripped often, had various musty smell issues, and towels wouldn’t dry in our bedroom but would dry in the other bedrooms with central air. And here’s a before shot of the long wall of the room, which came with that pretty wood treatment that we love, but the mildewed issues along the top needed some attention. This entire house didn’t have a functioning HVAC system (or any working water, like not even to flush a toilet). It had been abandoned for four years, so there were a number of leak/mold/soggy drywall issues that we had to address in this renovation before we could move in (you can read more about that here and here).
Two Days In St. Petersburg Florida With Kids
Also if you’re in the market for a classic parson’s desk that’ll stand the test of time – this is it. We have loved this desk solidly for a decade and a half and it’s so flexible – it can basically go anywhere (which is why we saved the original legs – who knows where it’ll end up in a few more years!). We thought it was a shame to lose all that valuable storage space, so we sealed the cinder block walls, painted the floor, and brought in some affordable furnishings.
It’s wild to think that this is our second year of decorating this house for the holidays (what even is time?!). You got a peek at some of it in our new kitchen door post, but today we’re gonna show it all! I’d describe Year Two in this house for the holidays as a more minimal Christmas but still a festive one. Glad you’re making podcast episodes again, even if they won’t be weekly. I will say, even if you don’t do as many DIY projects as before, I would find it interesting to listen to more regular content about your broader lifestyle and approaches to living happily as a young family.
Star Jasmine – Plant Growing & Care Guide
It took us about four months, but we chugged along. Here’s the reveal post with a ton of budget and source details. Oh yeah and then we got some craigslist swivel stools and added a homemade basket pendant light in the fireplace area and repainted the walls (the second time was the charm).
We also upgraded the knobs with $2 finds from Hobby Lobby. And here’s the exterior after we limbed up that house-dwarfing magnolia, painted the front door, transplanted a ton of fence-like bushes that completely obscured the view, did more planting/bush removal, and planted grass in all the bare patches. And here we have our well-traveled Quirk cup, which moved with us from Richmond. But we painted the pink house this color, fully influenced when John’s sister Carrie walked into a Christmas party a few years ago holding it. It’s very special to us, two very sentimental non-coffee-drinkers. Also, I feel like people don’t put their desks in front of windows enough.
How We Make Our Annual Family Photo Book
And after scrolling through this page, you can see all the before & afters here. Psst- If you’re looking for something in our beach house, click here – and if you’re searching for something in the duplex, click here. Here’s our backyard as it looked when we got the house. All wild and weedy and full of quickly-spreading liriope. Here’s the hallway after we hung a ton of frames (see how we did that here and here) on both sides of the wall for a playful wallpapered-with-frames effect.
Upstairs, the keyword is minimal I think this year. I just put out a tray of ornaments and some small bottle brush trees and called it good. Some are bottle brush, some are wood, some are ceramic, and some are mercury glass.
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Another whole 8×10′ rug could be placed right here without touching the one in the TV zone. Our original backyard was perfect for our wedding, but all that weeding and trimming was incredibly time consuming on a regular basis.
It’s short, and there’s no narration, so you can watch it on mute if you’re at work without missing anything. I don’t think we show this angle much either, so here you go. That white console table used to be in our last house’s dining room, and the drawer is full of spare light bulbs and extension cords. You know John requires a special spot for those, right?
Here’s how it all looked after a few years of upgrading it. As for what we did, we arranged those shelves and painted the back wall of the built-ins. We also added a giant 70″ table, some $62 patio chairs (from Target on clearance), and some homemade curtains with a fun bold print.
They aren’t even plants that need a ton of light, but dangit they LOVE IT if you do have it. I’m just now realizing the two vents we added upstairs aren’t really that visible in these photos so I’ll share some more pics on Instagram Stories soon for you (I’m currently searching for prettier vent covers – will report back with whatever I get). One vent is right at the base of the TV cabinet, which you can see in the background of the photo above. And one is on the other side of the room on the wall when you come up the stairs (if the photo below had a foot more of space on the left, you’d see it right there in the wainscotting). The family room mini-split rec was especially surprising to us because there were three old HVAC ducts that led up to this family room in existence already – two of which you can see in the before pic below! But they were skinny old ducts that attached to our non-functional system.
It was very graceful and not at all awkward looking. This view certainly has come a long way from February of 2020 when we bought this house. Photos never do this room justice, to the point that almost everyone who comes up here after seeing photos online (or just via texts from us) screams that it’s twice as big when they’re standing there in person. If it helps to orient you, the rug you see the sofa sitting on in the photo below is an 8 x 10! So we enlisted some free labor on Craigslist and had the yard cleared in an afternoon. Then we planted some grass for a simple and scenic area that’s a lot easier to maintain (see a full exterior breakdown here).
The bookshelves fit really well between the windows on that long wall, and their larger scale is great in this room (earlier we had some smaller things on those slices of wall – which you can see here in this post). Here’s the sunroom after painting the walls and ceiling, unifying the odd patch of brick on that back wall with more paint, adding some art, and bringing in some functional storage. While we’re praising things we’ve had for a long time that are SO FLEXIBLE for multiple uses and spots in your home, these Fjalkinge bookshelves from Ikea are the GOAT. They can hold plates and cups and cookbooks in a kitchen, crafting & art stuff as well as home office supplies in an office or craft room, and books & decor stuff for any sort of living space.
And just because you have kids or pets doesn’t mean you’re sentenced to floors that are overrun with toys or furniture covered in plastic. Through never-before-seen makeovers in our own house, doable DIY projects, and a gallery of other inspiring spaces, Lovable Livable Home shows how beautiful homes can be functional too. I realized I didn’t show you how the other side of the tree looks, but you can see from this pic of the kids starting to decorate it that it doesn’t really get in the way of anything. We have a big potted plant here the rest of the year, so the only real difference is that the tree is taller. But nobody was walking into that corner nook before, so it’s all good function-wise.
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