By virtue that my last post has been sitting here four months with no follow up, you could probably assume that this project got the best of me, and that it still looks like we live in a crumbling tenement building. Not so! I actually finished this project around the first of March. I am just woefully […]
Scraping off 100 pounds of painted wallpaper
It wasn’t until we had lived in this house quite a while that I realized our bedroom walls were a mess. What I initially thought was textured plaster turned out to be many layers of painted wallpaper. Wallpaper seams were showing through, both horizontal and vertical, leaving a crisscross pattern on the walls. The weird faux plaster […]
Collected updates: December edition
I’m back! I certainly didn’t mean to disappear for months. I was feeling really overwhelmed over the summer and into fall, and this blog was the easiest thing to let go of for a while. Over that past couple of years, I’ve been slowly transitioning from a stay-at-home mom to a part-time, self-employed, work-at-home mom providing […]
Last chance: Vintage maps leaving shop 07/31/15
I’ve had these vintage telephone service area maps in my shop for a while, and I even added one to the collection in our family room. But on the path to essentialism, I’m paring down what I sell, and these maps will be leaving the shop forever July 31, 2015. So if you’ve had your […]
Final bathroom renovation update!
Our bathroom renovation is finally complete. This whole thing started nearly two years ago when we discovered a cracked plumbing stack, but that was really just the final and indisputable straw. You can see what this bathroom used to look like in this post from 2010. We kept all the fixtures in the same place, but we corrected […]