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Big Life Decisions
This could be my shortest post yet. I wrote awhile back about our change of plans for our Trophy Travel Trailer and promised to circle back with a post on some of the big decisions that Warren and I have made and why we made those decisions and why we don’t shy away from changing our minds and plans, sometimes often. I wrote the post. And then I deleted the post. It came off weird. A little too preachy and a lot too prideful. I wrote about some of our biggest decisions and filled the post with justifications, talk of no regrets, and blah, blah, blah. I hated it, so…
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Oops We Did It Again; So Long Trophy Trailer!
Only a few short months ago, I shared the story of our Trophy Trailer and our plans to renovate it. Well, like we often do, we’ve changed our minds. Life changes, circumstances change, and minds change. At least ours do! I am fairly certain that many of our family and friends probably think we’re a bit “flighty” with all of the decisions we make and then sometimes un-make! I’ll talk more about that in a bit but let’s talk Trophy, shall we? Should It Stay or Should It Go Now? We really did have great intentions for this trailer of ours. When we first purchased it, we were sitting in…
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FINDING HOME – CONTINUED
Picking up where we last left off, I need to finish sharing the story of our “finding home” adventure. After we returned to Colorado from our 11-day trip to the Midwest, we were flying pretty high. We had explored possible areas to move to and we were already under contract on our house! Incredibly thankful to God for bringing us just the right buyers on day one of the listing, we knew our dreams of debt-free living were getting closer to becoming reality. We were also relieved that we would not have to live in our home while it was continually being shown to prospective buyers. Choices and Prayer The…
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FINDING HOME
We had made the big decision to sell our home in Colorado and once the house hit the market, we decided to hit the road. At the last minute, we decided to take an 11-day road trip to explore parts of the country we had never visited before. All in an effort to avoid the open house and initial showings but also in an effort to begin the process of perhaps finding home, our next home. Since COVID was still going strong, we decided to rent a travel trailer for the trip which also allowed us to take our two dogs along for the ride. Here was our plan: leave…
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Triple T: Trophy Travel Trailer; The Introduction
So, we bought a travel trailer in the summer of 2019. And not any old trailer, this was a Trophy! What, you’ve never heard of a Trophy travel trailer? Yeah, neither had we. But the guy we bought it from said it was the “Cadillac” of travel trailers in its day! We weren’t sure what he meant, but if he was referencing to how she rides, he was right! This trailer is the smoothest thing we’ve ever towed! So yeah, there’s that one thing the guy was right honest about. TIME FOR ANOTHER RENO It was about time for us to dig into another project. After 4 years, The renovation…
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Before and After: Part 3 Final Renovation Post!
Wow, what a journey! So here it is, the final FaithSpun post on our Young Victorian. An amazing home that we absolutely loved! Part 1 of this final post started us off in the downstairs rooms and Part 2 finished the downstairs spaces. This time we’ll be looking at all of the before and after photos of the upstairs rooms and the basement, our final project before the sale of the home. Lets take a look at the following: upstairs foyer, turret room (formerly Warren’s office), guest bedroom, guest bathroom, master bedroom, master bathroom, and the basement! Can’t believe this is it, but here we go! Okay, I’m gonna say…
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Before and After: Part 2
Woohoo, welcome to part 2 of our final three posts on the whole-house renovation of our Young Victorian. In the last post, I shared the before and after shots of several of the downstairs rooms. This post contains the befores and afters of the remainder of the downstairs spaces: kitchen, pantry, downstairs bath, and the office. Have fun! That’s it for the downstairs! Next and final post we’ll share all of the upstairs spaces along with the basement. Let’s go! {Shelley}
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Before and After: Part 1
Here we are, the before and after home renovation photos and I can’t believe we’re finally here! The last post (well part 1 of 3 anyhow) on the Young Victorian renovation project! I’ve documented for you this renovation every step of the way as we lived it. When we first purchased Annabelle’s Place back in December of 2015, we thought we’d be there for a very long time. Every step of the renovation was taking us closer to a finished home that felt brand new and 100% us! It was a wonderful home in the beautiful mountains of Colorado. We could never have imagined that just shy of five years,…
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Unplanned Plans | And Now, The Basement Renovation!
Wow, it was hard to believe that after two and a half years, our whole-house renovation was done! That meant we had now touched every single surface inside and outside of this home. Or at least every finished surface of the home. We had an unfinished 1400+ square foot basement but had no plans to finish it. When we bought the Young Victorian, or by her proper name Annabelle’s Place, we were really happy that the basement hadn’t been finished. The whole basement was storage and project space and it was great! We ultimately moved the laundry down to the basement, and it was also our (family) main entry point…
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Bathroom Renovation | Downstairs Bath
Round Three: the last of the bathroom renovations in our Young Victorian. There’s one big benefit to renovating multiple bathrooms back-to-back. Once you’re in the mode of working with tile and bathroom fixtures, each subsequent project just feels a bit easier. You establish a rhythm to the process and it doesn’t feel like starting over each time. The tile cutter is already out, you’ve got the mortar and grout mixing down to a science, and you’re motivated by the results of the previous projects. With both the upstairs guest bath and the master bath projects complete, we looked to the smallest of our bathroom projects next, the downstairs bath. This…
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