The Gay Street House was our tenth home remodel. We purchased it in November of 2020. It is located in Mount Vernon, Ohio. I have provided affiliate links all throughout this post so items pictured can easily be shopped at no additional cost to you. Just click on the highlighted words to be directed to the link. Chandelier Olive tree…
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The Cabin at Wildwood
The Cabin at Wildwood was our ninth home remodel. We purchased it in June of 2020. The cabin is located in Butler, Ohio, just minutes away from Mohican State Park. I have provided affiliate links all throughout this post so items pictured can easily be shopped at no additional cost to you. Just click on the highlighted words to…
How to Add Character to an Old Door
I have provided affiliate links all throughout this post so items pictured can easily be shopped at no additional cost to you. Just click on the highlighted words or images in order to be directed to the link. We purchased our eighth home remodel, the Mount Vernon Avenue House, at auction in May 2019. The home was solid and well…
The Mount Vernon Avenue House
The Mount Vernon Avenue house was our eighth home remodel. We purchased it within a month of our seventh remodel, Crestview II. The Mount Vernon Avenue house is a 1540 square foot, three bedroom, one and a half bathroom, four square located in Fredericktown, Ohio. I have provided affiliate links all throughout this post so items pictured can easily be…
DIY Feather Finish Concrete Countertops
Years ago I found a tutorial on Pinterest for DIY feather finish concrete countertops, using an existing countertop as a base. This post from Lauren at Bless’er House is the post I pinned, and also what I used as inspiration for our bathroom countertops. Before we get started with the steps we took to achieve our concrete countertops, let’s go…
Crestview II
Crestview II was our seventh home remodel. It is located right next door to our fourth remodel, the Crestview House. Crestview II is a 1200 square foot, three bedroom, one bathroom brick ranch. I have provided affiliate links all throughout this post so items pictured can easily be shopped at no additional cost to you. Just click on the highlighted…
The Connector House
We purchased the Connector house in the fall of 2017 and sold it in the fall of 2018. It was our sixth home remodel. All of the textured ceilings in the house were sanded down, re-mudded and sanded again. Then, of course multiple coats of fresh paint. All of the stained woodwork in the house was removed and replaced with…
Colonial on the Creek
Just days after completing the last of what seemed like hundreds of projects on our second home remodel (which took us years to complete because we worked on it on weekends, after work, and in between taking care of little ones), and breathing a giant sigh of relief, my husband and I purchased our third home to remodel: The colonial on…
How to Build a Faux Brick Wall
Hands down, the most talked about element in the Mulberry House is the faux brick wall. Not one person stepping into the dining room for the first time thought that it wasn’t real exposed brick. In fact, after we informed people that we built the feature wall out of 4X8 hardboard wall panels, most of them moved closer to feel it because…
The Crestview Project
The Crestview project was technically the first home renovation my husband and I tackled without actually living in the home upon completion. We purchased it strictly to transform the home for someone else to enjoy. If you take into account the homes we have renovated and lived in, then the Crestview house would be our fourth remodel project. It has been…