What I Learned Sanding Hardwoods
If you follow my Instagram stories, you’d know that we had a hell of a time sanding down the hardwood floors in our fixer upper. What was supposed to be a 3 day, Labor Day...
After purchasing our first flip, holding onto it for a year and finally making a good profit, we were able to purchase Main Street House. It will eventually be an investment rental property but in the short term we’ll be moving into the main house and renting out the one bedroom apartment above the garage.
Sanding Hardwood Floors – The Fiasco
This post may contain affiliate links – I haven’t decided how lazy I feel but figured I’d write this first in case there are! I don’t want them coming after me for false advertising! Happy...
Fixer Upper Remodel Update
Have you guys been keeping up with progress of our first fixer upper remodel? No!?! Well why do I have a micro-blog series about all the projects going on then? Go ahead, check them out,...
When Your First Home Isn’t Yours – Your Fixer Upper & Rental
It’s hard fixing up a home that you don’t plan on living in forever – especially if you plan on renting it out in the future! There’s tons more to think about – things like...
Bathroom Renovation Updates (Fixer Upper #2)
Bathroom Renovation Mini-Blog Check back often for running updates on this page! Instead of multiple individual posts, I add short blurbs about the progress of the bathroom renovation to this page as they happen. So follow...
Exterior Renovations Micro Blog
Check back often for running updates on this page! Instead of multiple individual posts, I add short blurbs (okay, they aren’t always short) about the progress of the various exterior renovations of our Fixer Upper! So follow...
Welcome to the Farm
Recently, I’ve been finding myself referring to our fixer upper as “the farm.” You might recall this post I wrote about the numerous groundhogs and raccoons we caught and released from the property. Well… they’re baaaaaccckkk....
How to Stain a Concrete Countertop | How I Stained My Concrete Countertop
So you’re thinking about staining some concrete huh? Did you land on this little blog because you typed into google “how to stain a concrete countertop?” Or maybe you came from Pinterest or Facebook or...
Concrete Countertops | Mistakes to Avoid
(I feel the need, mainly due to the title, to let you know that I LOVE MY CONCRETE COUNTERS. Yes I will be doing them again. Yes I think the avid DIYer could DIY their...
The Apartment Renovation: Get Off My Case
Recently, I’ve been getting the dreaded question “why isn’t the apartment remodel ready to be rented yet?” “How long have you owned that place 8 months? You aren’t done yet? What have you been doing?” First, we...
