Category Archives: house remodeling

house updates: painting baseboards white project continued

house updates: painting baseboards white project continued

Hello friends! Happy Saturday! Glad to see everyone is enjoying, or at least intrigued, by the sweet potato flour cakes. Let us know if you make them! Now onto a big goal for me – house projects! One thing I love about the weekends is that I have more time to do house remodeling projects.Continue Reading

life lately

life lately

We both want to say we are sorry we have been quiet over here on the blog, over on your youtube channel, as well as our other various social media outlets. Life is a little busy. We are doing are best to live in the moment. We hope you all understand. One thing we haveContinue Reading

exhausted

exhausted

Ever since this past Friday my fence project has taken over my life. Literally. All I do is work outside on the fence with help from Gary of course. Over the weekend we had extra help from his dad and now since Michelle is back in town she is helping out too. This fence projectContinue Reading

big house project we are doing ourselves

big house project we are doing ourselves

Hello Friends, Happy Friday! I bet everyone is excited for the long weekend I know I am because that means Gary is home for 3 days, which means more house projects can start and hopefully get finished! This weekend we have our first really BIG PROJECT that we are doing ourselves. Building a fence! Yep,Continue Reading

ideas for painting dining room walls

ideas for painting dining room walls

Hello friends! Well it has been a very long time since I have mentioned anything about my house remodeling projects. Sorry about that. I told you that I would keep you all in the loop and here I am getting behind. I am finally getting back on track with the house projects. Well, slowly pickingContinue Reading

fig tree and garden talk

fig tree and garden talk

Hello Friends, This morning I wanted to chat with you about the idea of getting a fig tree and starting a garden in my backyard.   I would love anyone’s thoughts about how to start a garden or getting a fig tree. I am still in the beginning stages  of learning and researching all thisContinue Reading

yardwork that never ends

yardwork that never ends

So this past weekend Gary and I tackled our backyard. To say that we have a lot of leaves, sticks, and trees is an understatement. They never end! Piles and piles of leaves. I must admit it was kinda scary picking up all the leaves and sticks as it was so deep you were unsureContinue Reading

4 hour new kitchen light project

4 hour new kitchen light project

Hello luvs! I am finally gathering all my pictures from my house remodeling projects. A few weeks ago my parents were in town to help with some house projects. First up was changing the kitchen light.  I was not a fan of the lighting that was in the kitchen so after some trips to Lowe’sContinue Reading

first dinner

in our new HOME!!! Last night Gary and I stayed over at our new home for the first time and I made ourselves our very first dinner in my new kitchen! The hardest thing about cooking the dinner was finding everything to cook with like a skillet, forks, etc. But I managed to find thingsContinue Reading

getting new flooring

Hello friends! Ever since being back from the honeymoon I have been going over to the house to check on it. And it is ALMOST finished!! So hard to believe sometimes that this house is ours. Gary and I are so excited to actually start living in our new house. And I think Michelle isContinue Reading

bathroom updates

Hello luvs, Thanks for all the sweet wishes about Gary and I’s honeymoon. We are having a great time so far Before I headed out of town I was able to go over to the house to take some pictures of the progress of the master bathroom. It is really starting to come together now!!Continue Reading

patience and progress

Hello friends, It is Lori here today. I wanted to give a quick update and share progress pictures of the new house that Gary and I bought a few weeks ago. Do you remember the last time I shared my house remolding? a lot has changed Well, we are slowly making progress! I am learningContinue Reading

update on L&G new house remodeling project

hello friends, as you know Gary and I bought our first house together a few weeks ago. and we have not even lived in it yet as we wanted to do some major remodeling before we moved in officially. we were not really sure what we were getting ourselves into. we knew it was goingContinue Reading