Category: Home
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How I thrift: home goods
It’s no secret that I love to thrift. I have been thrifting since I was a teenager, and many of my favorite possessions are thrifted. It stands to reason then that when we bought our house in April 2020, I tried to furnish it with primarily thrifted goods. Of course thrifting home goods is somewhat…
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Fall Cleaning
For all of my adult life I have been either in school or teaching school, so springtime has always been a ridiculously busy time, leaving zero time for spring cleaning. By the time the weather warms up, I am usually sliding as fast as I can into summer break, and if anything is clean or…
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Library Update
As I mentioned in my last post, we are finally doing some updates to the library and, hopefully, alleviating the book storage issue. This issue, of course, has nothing to do with my book store addiction. Nothing at all. But seriously, what do you get when two liberal arts graduates with Hermione Granger-like research habits…
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Why I Thrift
Let’s go back to the beginning. The very beginning. It’s 2004. I’m ten, and I’ve gotten a pile of Kit and Molly American Girl books from the library (remember these?). I fell in love with the Depression and WWII eras, in particular the resourcefulness and creativity of people who lived through these challenging times. Growing…
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Bring on the personality!
The last, and perhaps most important, part of designing our house was deciding how to incorporate our unique style into the process. Obviously we wanted to preserve and/or restore some of the house’s original character, everything that had drawn us to it in the first place, but our house is first and foremost our home,…
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Bring on the authenticity!
Bringing a sense of authenticity back into our home was, as I have mentioned before, a challenge, because our home had received a number of unloving “facelifts” before we bought it. The original bathrooms are gone as is the hardwood flooring, wall paneling, and other features that we can only guess at. Restoring these features…
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The white paint debacle
When I first began dreaming about decorating this house, roughly twenty minutes after the open house, I was so sure that I wanted a green color palette, and I had every intention of painting the main areas with a neutral green. As we lived with the house, however, green seemed less and less appropriate. The…
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The beams saga
While we were still in house limbo, waiting for closing and working our way through an endless list of tasks, I did a lot of research on mid century homes. I discovered that our house had post and beam construction, and I scoured the internet looking for ways to bring out this architectural feature. As…
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Bring on the warmth!
We fell in love with our house at first sight! We went to one open house, and immediately made an offer; that’s how much we adored it. It just felt like home, and we are still pretty obsessed, even a year later. There was, however, one thing about our house that I absolutely hated: the…
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Getting Started
We bought our house in April 2020 in the middle of quarantine, which gave us a whole lot of uninterrupted time to work on it. Thankfully the updates that we wanted to make were primarily cosmetic. Our home was previously a rental and had received unloving updates before we bought it; the original hardwood floors…
Mid Century Messy 