Tag: Renovation
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Downstairs bathroom

To our home’s successor, We spent the first couple years exclusively using the downstairs bathroom as it was in a better state than the upstairs bathroom despite it’s inconvenience. After showering several times, we started to notice the state of the walls. There was (and at this time, still isn’t a ventilation system in either…
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Primary Bedroom

To our home’s successors, We started making mistakes in May of 2019 by gutting the horsehair plaster walls. Let me back up just a bit, and share why we started in this room… Need I say more? Our experience was extremely limited, so we started by taking down wallpaper… this was a waste of time,…
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Getting Started and Moving In

To our home’s successors, The list is long, but we had to start somewhere. I took the train in from Boston and started to clean one weekend while Matt was away. I felt it was essential to clean as much as I could prior to our move-in and unpacking. A few of the rooms were…