Here are the last two rooms we made from the original attached garage. If you missed them, Part 4 is the hall and laundry room and parts 1-3 of the remodeling series show the main house’s before and after transformation. This is what we variously call the workroom, guestroom, big room, front room…well, you get [...]

See parts one through three of this series here. This is what our garage looked like when we bought our house five years ago. Pretty typical ranch-style house with attached garage. However, the house was too small (my husband works from home and we needed office space), so we knew right away we were going [...]

See parts one and two of this series here. The very first week we owned our house, we farmed the kids out to relatives, lived in our little trailer in the driveway and painted the entire inside of the house (our possessions were still in storage from earlier as we looked for a house after [...]

I started our remodeling saga with the outside of our house in the first part of this series . This second part shows how we transformed the main living areas, mainly by using paint. When we bought our house, every piece of molding, all the wood, doors, ceilings, cupboards, and floors (the ones that were [...]

I’ve been wanting for awhile to do a series on remodeling, mostly do-it-yourself for as little as possible! We did a lot of DIY projects at our old house and learned a few things along the way we are bringing to our new house. One thing about DIY remodeling, it doesn’t move fast, and I [...]