I'm so excited to reveal our finished floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in our living room! It bears repeating, but home takes time. Sometimes, a lot of time! This room has gone through some really insane changes over the past two years, but none more than getting these custom bookshelves! Last fall, Ian and I got four IKEA [...]
Hey y'all! It feels good to be back. These past few weeks have been so hectic with planning out projects around the house, figuring out what we are contracting out and what we are tackling ourselves. Most people don't know this, but Ian and I aren't full-time renovators nor do we have a background in [...]
When Ian and I were renovating our old house, Squirrel House, we were working mainly out of a small one-car garage (that actually doesn't really fit a car). The garage was super dingy, had minimal lighting, and just wasn't super conducive to getting work done. To be fair, we were also horrible at organizing that [...]
Photo sources: Kitchen Cabinets Flooring Subway Tile Lighting Range/Oven Runner This past week was demo week at Squirrel Estate. Our contractors came and tore up all the first-floor flooring, tile, the kitchen, and the powder room. Now it's time to put it all back together! Our contractors took care of tiling the entryway/coat closet/powder [...]
One nice thing about Squirrel Estate is the 2-story foyer. Throughout the house, we have 8-ft ceilings, but it really doesn't feel like it because the foyer lets in so much light and it feels so much more open and airy. Our current foyer chandelier situation isn't ideal. It's not horrible, but very dated and [...]
If you're new here, hi! A little summary of our house adventures: in August 2017, my husband and I bought our first house, a duplex in the northwest section of Philadelphia. We currently live there and are hoping to move out by the end of the year. We'll likely rent it out to longterm tenants, [...]
Ian and I first moved to Philadelphia in the summer of 2017. We bought a fixer upper at around 1,200 sq ft in a quiet neighborhood, and got to work. Over the last two years, we changed everything from painting the walls to swapping out flooring. Needless to say, everything looks very different from when [...]
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