Category: Charming Home

We sold our house!! I’ve been biting my virtual tongue since we went under contract back in November and it’s been so hard to not spill the beans but I didn’t want a single thing to jinx this process. Let me just say – selling a house is way more stressful than buying one! You… Continue reading Closing on our house

Remember that To Do List we have been gradually whittling down? Well, the biggest project on that list was to put a concrete pad beside our existing driveway to address the awkward slope of our driveway and provide extra parking. Consider that done! Back in August, we hired a local concrete contractor to take care… Continue reading Extra parking space? Yes, please!

One thing we wanted to do to our house before listing it for sale that wasn’t on our big To Do List was replace the flooring in the basement. I don’t know why this didn’t make it on the original list, but it’s something we’d been wanting to do for awhile. As in, from the… Continue reading Carpet be gone (aka: new basement flooring)!

The very first house Alex & I ever owned was a cozy little ranch – just about 1,000 square feet. We lived there for about a year before having our first kid. Which meant we were met with the challenge of making the most out of our space by making sure places like the living… Continue reading How to Setup A Living Room and Playroom in One

This Friday’s ‘a glimpse of…’ is a day late but that’s okay! I’m sharing with you my day-early Mother’s Day present. Alex took me – and Ezra too! – to Home Depot today to pick out some flowers for the flower pots on our front porch. Just ignore the grody gardening gloves there. Every May,… Continue reading My front porch

I love plants. I really do. But I have a really bad way of just killing every plant I’ve ever owned. Except for the ones that I wish would die. Those inexplicably hang on for dear life and thrive and spread out. That’s what’s happening in this picture above. Specifically with the lilies. Last Spring,… Continue reading My sad, pathetic, sorry excuse for a garden