As you know, we are in the middle of building our house.  There are several rooms in the house that we want accent doors.  I shared our pantry doors already, which I cannot wait to see them hung.  Let’s be honest… I can’t wait to have two pantries.  We have a little more work to […]

As soon as Deb and I started talking about building a house, I knew I wanted a ginormous kitchen island.  And, I wanted it to be an antique store counter.  We have an antique store counter that we used in the old house and also here in the cottage, but it is 8′ long.  Our […]

I have made it be known that we want our new home to look like it’s been around forever.  So we are incorporating a few old doors in the plans, along with our old fireplace mantels.  I shared the layout here, but we will have four fireplaces in the house.  The kitchen and dining room […]

One of my favorite things to decorate is our fireplace mantel.  Did you know that our new house will have FOUR fireplaces?  Two double ones: one between the kitchen and dining room and one between the living room and master bedroom.  I cannot even begin to tell you how much I love that. (See layout […]

Have you been with us for a while?  We had a busy 2023 in the fact that we moved into our new home at the end of December, 2022.  So January, 2023, was a new beginning in lots of different ways.  We already had a list of home projects in hand going into the new […]

I have always been in charge of all of the decisions about designing our homes.  That includes not only home decor and where to display each piece of furniture, but it includes paint colors, curtains, and flooring.  We were very careful when chatting with the architect about what we wanted in our home.  We got […]

This post is NOT aesthetically pleasing. That is your warning.  I wasn’t going to share this utility closet here but I love to cross post everything for those who aren’t on social media. Because you need to know what we have been up to.  Ha!  Deb recently revised our coat closet in the laundry room […]

As you probably already know, I have been working on the dining room the last several weeks.  Putting together one room at a time is really working for me.  It helps with my ADD brain.  We have the massive oak cabinet for the dining room in place.   If you missed stories, I will be sharing […]