Do you remember our dingy, floral on floral on floral covered first floor bathroom?
You know, the one that we started stripping wallpaper in the first weekend we owned the house in 2014, and then kept starting and restarting projects in until it ended up looking like this?
After all we've...
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It's been months in the making and we finally have a functional and (nearly) complete first floor bathroom!This little bathroom that started out completely covered in floral wallpaper with a floral border, with baseboard radiators, cracked and scratched tile, missing a mirror, and with an off center pedestal sink...
...has been...
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Seeing a project come together is one of the most gratifying aspects of DIY renovation.We've been working on trying to improve our little first floor bathroom for a while now, and it finally feels like we're starting to get to the home stretch. I can't begin to tell you how...
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Last week we gave you a rundown of our progress in bringing our first floor bathroom's antique heart pine flooring back to life.It had been hidden beneath poorly installed tile for many years, so we knew there'd be some repair necessary. The end result was a floor that needed to...
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Antique heart pine is amazingly resilient, but restoring it has long been intimidating to me.Over the last several months we got to see our house's heart pine floors go through a true transformation when they were refinished, but they were largely in good shape already.
But today I want to share...
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