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Happy 124th!

Exactly one year ago today we made one of the biggest change in our lives and we signed our lives over to our mortgage  closed on our very first home! We will forever celebrate this day as a birthday for our house - I always find any excuse to bake a cake and buy gifts :) We originally had huge plans of doing projects around the house all day. That was quickly squashed by the rain and our pup had a bit of an emergency and needed to be rushed to the vet this morning. She would be quite embarrassed if I went into anymore detail.. In the end we ended up doing at least a few things that we have been wanting to get done - like painting the ugly yellow walls in the basement! 

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So much has happened in the last year for us:


We updated and cleaned up the entire exterior:

We went from this...


To this!


New roof
Fresh paint
Spruced up fence
Updated door
New windows


We completely demoed the upstairs bathroom:


Going from this:


To this!



All new clean fixtures 
Expanded footprint 
Added storage
Fresh clean smell :) 

We also revamped our main bath


From this:


To this:



New tile floors
Fresh paint 
Better layout
Actual functionality



These are just some of my favorite completed projects. We have pretty much touched every inch of the house and we plan to do more big projects in the next year:) 

Some of our plans are --

Freshening up landscape 
Sanding and staining wood floors
Stripping and painting trim
Installing new doors
Putting in new garage doors
& more! 

Thank you everyone who has helped us get our home to what it is today! All the painting and the wallpaper removal and the scrubbing and the cleaning and organizing and constructing and updating - we really couldn't do it without you helping:) 

Thank you to my followers for keeping me motivated to get more posts out there [shout out to Mel] and coming on this journey with me as we restore our home:) It means so much that you all care the way you do! 

Thank you Nicole Curtis for teaching us that what we have is golden!

Thank you :) 


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