There are SO many options out there for kitchen pendants. As we were redoing our historic kitchen, we knew we wanted something classic yet refined and simple. The range wall was designed to be a feature piece, and we didn’t want the island pendants to distract from that. Visual Comfort has been my go-to brand…
Historic Home
Statement Lights for a Home Office
My home office sits tucked away in a room of our primary bedroom – which unfortunately means it’s been a low priority on our renovation list. But, when the light in the old builder-grade ceiling fan circa 1980 finally gave out this week, we decided that rather than swapping the bulb, it was time to…
Vintage-Look Chandeliers For the Bathroom (Budget-Friendly)
Phase two of the renovation of our 1915 boarding house is underway, which means I have a lot of light fixtures to order. At the top of my list is finding a vintage-look chandelier to go over our original clawfoot bathtub that is being refinished. Finding a vintage-look chandelier on a budget has been a…
Refreshing Old Grout: Before and Afters
Our 1915 historic home has seen a lot of love – and a lot of wear and tear – over the last 100 years. The bathrooms were all redone at some point, but the once-white grout is starting to show it’s age. The tiles in what we call the white bathroom were in pretty good…
Mood Board for our Budget Bathroom Renovation
Our 1915 historic home was originally built as a boarding house. Three of the bedrooms and a now-enclosed sleeping porch are off a common staircase and main landing with two full baths. Our original plans for the house were to gut both bathrooms immediately upon moving in, however as we started deep cleaning each, we…
Our Old Home Renovation Plan
Life has been moving at a crazy pace lately! In just a few short weeks, we’ve bought a new house, started prepping our current home for sale, had a baby, and started some major renovations at the new house. Our goal is to have the home ready to move in within just six weeks of…
Life update: We bought a new (very old) house!
I feel like the blog has really been in background mode for a while as we navigated on two really big life changes. We had a new baby! And we bought a new (very old) house! We have loved the last seven years in our little craftsman cottage on Beacon. Unfortunately, three kids + the…