when things go wrong… and when they go right…

It’s inevitable that you face challenges during any renovation, you are guessing at what’s happening behind walls and above ceilings and once you start demolishing everything and discover what’s really happening, sometimes you get good surprises and sometimes not. I mentioned some of the less fortunate discoveries in an earlier post, annoying things like ducts (I personally hate air conditioning… and who needs heat anyway?!) and an abundance of layers of tile on the floor… Sometimes other things happen that are a result of having a bunch of messy human beings working on everything…. sometimes you make mistakes (GASP!). I…

Hello December, goodbye year

While I was in the middle of doing one of the things on my endless to do list the other evening I thought to myself, “oh, I should write a blog post, it’s been a few days” umm, correction, a few weeks! Eek! I’m using the rookie card here… that and having like seven ‘jobs’ as my excuse for the unintentional hiatus. And am putting ‘blog writing’ into my calendar as an official activity to stay accountable to. But, as I work on wrapping up an awesome post about how things are coming along at Lindsey and Doug’s and some…