Welcome!

If it's worth doing, it's worth over-doing, right? That seems to be our motto around here anyway, so we (well, I) decided to blog about our misadventures in DIY-ing. Said misadventures will be even easier to come by than usual now that we are proud home owners!

The blog will be devoted to house stuff in the short term, but eventually we plan to feature our over-DIYing in all it's forms - including but not limited to knitting, sewing, brewing, canning, and soap making.

For now I'll introduce you to our new little house.

Isn't it cute, in all it's salmon-colored glory? It was built in 1947 and we hypothesize that it was a single-owner house. We might be changing our minds about that, but I'll get to that in the next post.


Here's the entryway. The funny doorways are one of the best parts!

And on to the living room. Gah, I love the floors. Not a lot has been done to the house recently, but the seller did refinish the floors. It's nice to not have to worry about that right away.

Speaking of floors, check out the corners. So cool!

Okay, moving on - the dining room. It makes me feel like such a grown up to have a dining room.

And the kitchen. The kitchen will be requiring some love. As in, it needs a new one. That project will have to wait, but we're already scheming. The floors don't photograph well, but trust me when I tell you that they prominently feature gold sparkles. I'm sure they were super trendy at some point!

Next up, the bedrooms. One is a little bigger and one a little smaller.

Alright, you've seen some nice white rooms with pretty wood floors and you've hopefully had time to prepare for this:

Oh my. Words cannot fully express my loathing for this vanity. Just perfectly hideous.

My favorite part might be how it clashes with the blue tile in the rest of the room. Actually, my very favorite part about the vanity area is that the mirror hits the wall and doesn't open all the way. I mean, really. 

Okay, okay, moving on. Another funny feature in our house is the overabundance of doors. You could completely close yourself in the hallway, but I'm fuzzy on why that's a good or useful thing.

Next on the tour, our charming garage.

The flag, boxes of old income taxes, and rickety ladder our now ours. Hooray? The garage loft is a great feature, though the "beams" across the garage are confusing at best.

Moving on to the great outdoors! We like to think the key word back here is "potential." Doesn't it just have TONS of potential?

It does have one thing we super love - an orange tree!

It seems to more or less be thriving on a diet of neglect, so I'm pretty sure we can even keep it alive. The oranges are delicious, too. We also have a slightly sad but very useful shed.

Here's a quick plan of the house. Some day I might even add the windows.


So there you have it, our new and never-ending project! We have lots planned, so check back every so often to see what we're up to.