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Girl’s Bedroom – Week 8 – All the Little Details

Living & DecorMarch 11, 201692Views 0Likes 4Comments

With a project like this one, the devil is in the details, and there sure are a lot of details. There has been a little setback. The budget has dried up, but the project is not finished. We have put the idea for a tall storage closet on hold for now. Having a tall storage…

Girl’s Bedroom – Painting Stripes with Frog Tape

Living & DecorMarch 3, 2016374Views 0Likes 12Comments

This week on the blog, we are heading back upstairs to M's bedroom to talk about painting stripes with Frog Tape. It finally feels like this room project is really happening. We may wrap this renovation up, after all. I know that many people complete their DIY projects much faster than we do. Our limited…

First Project of 2016

Living & Decor, Maintenance, Respectful RenovationJanuary 6, 2016146Views 0Likes 4Comments

This week we are starting our first project of 2016. When we moved into Blake Hill House, Andy and I agreed that we should get the kids' rooms done as soon as possible. The two back bedrooms meant for our middle boys were completely unusable. During the time that we were repairing plaster and bringing…

Goodbye 2015

Living & DecorJanuary 4, 2016260Views 0Likes 2Comments

I was not going to do one of these posts. I was going to ease my type B self into January 2016 with nary a word about to-do lists, accomplishments and anything else of the sort. Then, I decided to take a peek at the past year on the blog. It was quite a rabbit…

Party Ready

Living & Decor, MaintenanceOctober 14, 2015258Views 0Likes 5Comments

Last weekend we had a small get-together. The looming deadline to have a clean and tidy house, along with your encouraging comments from last week's post, were exactly the kick in the pants I needed to begin creating an inviting home. I love giving people a tour of Blake Hill House when they visit. It is one…

Slow as Molasses

Exterior ProjectsSeptember 9, 2015171Views 0Likes 6Comments

If this quiet blog is any indication, work around here has come to a near standstill. No news is supposed to be good news, but sometimes it is simply no news. Some of the kids and I traveled quite a bit in August. Since we were away from BHH more than we were home, projects remained…