• Diy,  Home Tour

    Basement Wall Demo Part 3

    Here we are! Back at it again! We finally finished removing the 2 main non-loadbearing walls! If you missed the first 2 installments you can check Part 1 out here and Part 2 out here. We started with main area that lead to 2 closets and a bedroom. We removed the walls to get rid of the 3 separate spaces to create 1 large open entertaining space. Check it out below! So much better! It’s one long open entertaining space that will soon house a pool table, bar, and table. Behind the wall to the right, this is the load-bearing wall that will be removed, will be our couch and…

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    Front Door Makeover

    Recently, we painted the front of our brick house white. You can check out how that went here. **Spoiler Alert** It went amazing! I am so in love! However there is one part that I’m not as in love with. The porch. It all just blends. The white house, with the white columns, and the white door was just too much for me and I needed something to visually break up the white. So I focused on what would be the most dramatic, budget friendly option: the front door. So here it is. Our front door in all its dated glory. The white and gold combination was just not visually…

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    Painting Our Brick House Part 2

    We’ve continued painting the exterior of our home and it has definitely been an adventure. It’s been just over 2 months since we painted the front and everytime we had plans to continue something would come up or we’d get a weekend of nonstop rain. So this weekend, armed with a forecast of low humidity, low temperatures, and clear skys we tackled the next large wall! This is the next largest exterior wall, it is a full 2 story wall with the door to the basement. It took a day for my husband to paint the wall top to bottom with our Wagner Flexio paint sprayer. I totally dropped the…