Written April 19, 2013 We often make the mistake of calling the third floor the ‘apartment’. If we don’t catch it ourselves, Joel is quick to do so for us, saying “It’s the attic, not an apartment.” He doesn’t want Drew to get any ideas that he lives in his own abode, but rather is still a part of our household. Good point. No worries though. Drew loves his third-floor space, but he also spends plenty of time downstairs with…
Written April 18, 2013 This little bedroom looks nice now (pictured above), but it and the adjacent half bath started out life a little rough. Vision came in handy once again. Here’s one before…
Written April 18, 2013 This room and the garage below it was added about 50 years after the house was built. I’m totally making that time frame up. Joel isn’t home and he’s the…
Written April 18, 2013 The Reader’s Digest version is this: two closets became one laundry room. Yep. Here’s one of them. Here’s the other one. (Not the whole room…just that closet with the desk…
Written April 17, 2013 This was the bathroom that we were going to leave alone. Not too bad. Save this project for another day and another budget, right? Then we found out that the…
Written April 16, 2013 The master bathroom transformation is definitely worth writing home about. If someone hadn’t told me that a bedroom could be made into a closet and bathroom, I never would have…
Written April 16, 2013 The master bedroom wasn’t a very dramatic shift. Nothing to write home about, as they say, but here I am writing about it. The biggest excitement came when we put…
Written April 16, 2013 Do you remember the movie, The Shining? I actually never saw it because I don’t enjoy movies that terrify me. Joel did see it however and the images in it…
Written April 15, 2013 We realized right away that we would have plenty of bedrooms for our needs, so we turned the rooms at the front of the house into our offices. We figured…
Written April 15, 2013 In the previous article, Let’s Go Upstairs, you got a glimpse of the banister that was replaced. David Griggs, the master craftsman who did this fine job, agreed to take some…
