One of my favorite things to see is drywall going up. It makes a dirty and exposed construction space feel like an actual room. When the ceiling and walls start to appear, I can actually feel a weight being lifted off of me. Those walls tell me that everything is going to be fine. Even though Mark has proven that he is capable of renovating an ENTIRE house and WE are capable of doing this…I…

Well, maybe just a little bit. But Mark’s weird (and often maddening) habit of saving EVERY. SINGLE. RECEIPT. finally paid off the other day. We needed to order 3 window blinds for the back bedroom and couldn’t remember the exact make and model we got before. I said “Why don’t you see if you can find the receipt?” Receipt-loving Mark did just that. While we’re on the subject of “maddening qualities our spouse has” I…

Mark can basically do anything a general contractor can do. And in the spirit of the new year and JUST GOING FOR IT, it turns out he is quite the mason as well. That’s the old wooden sill on one of the windows in the back bedroom. It has to be the original because it was rotted and gross. Mark removed it along with some of the crumbly bricks underneath. Time to rebuild the windowsill….

Hello and Happy New Year to all of you fabulous readers…all you blog lovahs! I’m handing the keyboard over to my favorite guy, Mr. Marky Mark…we decided that he would write the first post of 2016! Hey everyone…I’m not a wordsmith like Courtney, but I have a few things to share. To start, Courtney and I never envisioned that we’d be here…in this cool little house with blog readers and followers and a second house…

Blog readers who’ve been with us for awhile know that we picked up an old elevator door from a saw mill that used to be on 60th Street in Lawrenceville. We got it from a local artist who was selling it on Craigslist for $25. Mark brought it home…I said “What the hell is that?!”…and Mark proudly informed me that we were hanging it from our ceiling. It was an unfinished project for many months….

Our family doesn’t even wrap Christmas presents for us anymore, they just hand us Home Depot gift cards. And we love them for it!!! This Christmas was the best yet because of this sweetie pie and her big cheeks. All we did this Christmas was spoil niece Lily and eat. Then give her kisses and eat some more. And then have pie. Yours truly needs to detox and sweat off some of those goodies. What…

Not sure if it’s the holidays or my hormones, but I literally teared up the other day as Mark worked on our upstairs bedroom. As I wrote this blog post, he carried all the insulation and drywall upstairs. He cut the fluffy pink stuff and filled all the cracks and crannies Then, Marky Mark rented himself a lift and started hanging…but not before I made him pose. Drywall is heavy and cumbersome, and this skinny…

I don’t know what your partner is like, but mine is a pack rat. We’re not talking “Hoarders” level pack rat, but my husband, Mark, can’t throw anything away. (And that’s why I throw his things away when he’s not home…shhhhhh.) It’s almost the start of a new year and we want to start 2016 light and fresh and without baggage! We decided to throw a purge party for two. We poured wine, turned on…

Yes, it was 70 degrees last weekend, but we know we’re gonna get socked with some winter weather soon! That means we MUST insulate the back bedroom in The Rowhouse. My man loves nothing more than a weekend full of insulating. (Insert maniacal laugh here!) We thought this task was going to be difficult and tedious because of the small spaces and awkward corners, but it went smoothly and quickly! Once we finished, our favorite…

A little switcheroo in our lives this week… For my REAL job, I anchored the morning news which meant my afternoons were spent with my favorite nugget! The weather was so beautiful that I walked with niece Lily almost every afternoon. Babygirl sings when you go for walk. Other people might think it sounds like weird moaning, but to me she’s singing…and she’s always smiling the whole time! Because of the schedule change I never…