We purchased the mid-century house because it’s on a wonderful piece of property, which is situated in a great little city, and it has GREAT bones. These facts allowed us to look past the hodgepodge layout in the kitchen (which…
Refinishing and Renewing Our Wreck of a Deck
Project deck overhaul (aka fixing our wreck of a deck) is finally complete! Behold the renewed, restored, and refinished deck in all her glory! This sad back deck was in really rough shape when we purchased the Forest House. The…
Revealing our Lovely, Equity-Boosting, Finished Attic Office!
We are thrilled to finally post that our empty attic to beautiful office conversion is DONE! We have finished transforming what was once an empty attic space into a lovely, useable, modern office and flex space for our family! This…
Insulating the Room Over the Garage
Since we last updated you on our Finished Room Over the Garage (FROG) project, we have insulated the floors, insulated the ceiling, and made a LOT of progress towards completing this project. In this post, we’ll share how we insulated…
Simple & Stylish DIY Murphy Beds
Need a bed (or two) but don’t wanna dedicate an entire room as a permanent “bedroom?” Is your old college futon/hand-me-down guest bed/blow-up mattress no longer cutting it? We have a solution! You should DIY your own Murphy bed! This…
Attic Office: Building New Stairs
It’s official – we have stairs y’all! We are now the proud owners of NEW stairs leading to the NEW room over the garage! To recap, we decided to reclaim the unfinished attic space over the garage and convert it…
FROG-ing Out (Finished Room Over Garage)
When we bought the Forest house, we knew that it didn’t have enough space for Chris and I to both work from home. However, there was some untapped potential – an unfinished basement and some attic space that we might…
Basement Media Room Reveal!
Friends, our media room is finally finished! Complete! Donezo! Seriously!! Let the theater usage begin! Movies can be viewed in extreme comfort, at maximum volume, in surround sound, within a sound dampered room! Excited? Us? Yep! Who’s bringing the popcorn?…
Killer Construction: How We Built the Basement Media Room!
With the basement office completed, we turned our full attention to the basement media room construction and finishing. From an initial vision, turned Melissa’s digital mock-up, turned reality, it’s time to share the basement media room construction from start to…
Basement Media Room Kickoff
This week, we are kicking off our basement media room project! This first post will introduce the scope of the project, and next week, we will update you on the framing, drywall, and progress on the built-in wall unit (sample…
Drawing Up Construction Plans Already?
We’ve been settling into the Forest House for a little over a month now and, not surprisingly, we already have our first major project in the works! Dun dunn dunnnn – the basement! Since I’m from Florida, the land where…