Welcome! Before we begin this crazy journey together I thought you might like to know the story. I'm a history graduate from Meredith College and my husband is a Poultry Science graduate from NCSU (Go Pack!). We married soon after graduating and moved to middle-of-nowhere Florida where we lived in a string of company owned straight-out-of-the-90s homes. While these two years were great for our marriage, we couldn't pass up an opportunity to move back to North Carolina, be close to family and friends, and live in the home of our dreams.
Ok.. maybe home of our dreams is a bit of an exaggeration. Our 'dream home' was a 100-year-old farmhouse, abandoned for nearly five years, and before that housed a string of tenants with no strict rental guidelines. What does that combination mean? Linoleum on the walls. You can read that again but you did read it correctly. Linoleum for FLOORS on the WALLS. A purple master bedroom with green trim, wallpaper made from wine bottle labels, falling drop ceilings, and seven layers of industrial carpet and bargain box Pergo floors. However, that was just the cosmetic stuff. Structural damage, rotting floors, peeling plaster, and a severe lack of insulation were just a few of the bigger problems.
I was in love. Those falling drop ceilings revealed the original beadboard. Those scratched and stained floors, below the seven layers, were original heart pine. That green trim would be gorgeous with a few coats of white paint, and those peeling doors were solid wood.
Raised in home improvement stores with a faux finish artist mother, a master Mr. Fixit father, and a husband who works to bring my crazy design dreams to life, I knew we could it.
Fast forward one year and we've done a lot and have even more left to do. We're finally figuring out the tricks to living in house with one bathroom/laundry room and no dishwasher. Don't laugh. It was an adjustment. I'll chronicle about the more "boring" projects that brought us to this point and sometimes fast forward to the where we are today.
Hope y'all enjoy!
Hope y'all enjoy!