ruthfully, this renovation is one of my biggest dreams coming true. And I do love it. But also ~ ohmygod it is also some of the worst stress I've ever experienced at the exact same time.As I scroll through Instagram daily and see the big design bloggers that I follow doing this project or that... seemingly always in a state of utter design bliss, I can't help but feel like I'm failing…

We are in the part of our renovation where I feel like we are working constantly {so. many. decisions. to make!} but we aren't seeing much progress day to day. I know that's totally normal for any construction project but man does it take the fun right out of it sometimes... I'm ready to see some transformation!

While we live in our semi-done/undone kitchen and wait {for what feels like an eternity} for our kitchen cabinets, there are still a million things to be done to keep making progress in our cute little abode. The next thing I want to tackle is the coat closet right inside the front door of our place. 

We are getting closer and closer to go time... the kitchen cabinets should be shipping the first week of April and I have plenty of things I still need to do. Anyone know where to get a super sexy black kitchen faucet?? Given that we will have had at least a month of waiting while the cabinets were being fabricated, there are no excuses for not being ready when they actually get here…

This is what my 'in progress' kitchen actually looks like right now. It's not pretty, and it's not super fun to live in. I had been a bit naively optimistic in hoping that could stack up the kitchen boxes and make a usable 'counter' space on top of them until our actual cabinets come, which clearly isn't happening.

I've shared some of the ups and downs of buying and starting renovations of our new place... but I haven't actually introduced you to it! Meet our cute little house {condo}! We bought a super outdated two-bedroom two two-bathroom condo in a loft/courtyard building in a pretty hip part of town. Honestly, I don't feel cool enough to live in our new neighborhood, lol, but here we are!

Guys, we are officially IN our new place! It still kind of doesn't feel real, but I'm sure that's because have no kitchen appliances right now and are living out of boxes for the next few weeks while we get new baseboards installed and hopefully get new kitchen cabinets.And paint colors, I need to figure out the paint colors!

You guys, I have so many things I want to talk about and share this year on the blog, but right now, all I can think about is our new place. I mean, is there really anything else worth doing?! It's taking some serious willpower to not actually buy anything before we move in. . .