Okay, let’s jump into the first project: the basement. Now we have an unfinished basement which wouldn’t normally warrant a top-o-the-list priority, but let’s just say it was less about the basement and a lot more about ridding the house of mice! You see, the house sat empty for about 7 or more months and those little critters pretty much took over! We quickly learned that there were some wide-open thoroughfares in the basement which led to the slight infestation. And I’m talking, you could see daylight thoroughfares! Mice were like “Woohoo, party at The Christmas House!!!” We first brought in an expert to give us recommendations on how to…

Hey there, thanks for joining again! So in my last post, we were getting ready to begin the journey to finding our Young Victorian in the Colorado mountains. But first I had to share some of our backstory and it was a bit of a downer. But it was also an incredible opportunity for growth and lessons learned and for that we are grateful. And now it’s time to focus on how we stumbled upon what we’ve dubbed Annabelle’s Place! Getting Ready to Buy! We left off with us moving to an apartment for what we thought would be just a few short months. We diligently did everything we could…

Starting off this brand new blog with a project that is literally consuming all of our time these days, months, and now years! We’ve documented the renovation of a Victorian home we purchased in the mountains of Colorado in late December, 2015. This home is only 20 years young but it was originally built to look like a much older home. While she has some beautiful characteristics of a much older home, she unfortunately had some not so great characteristics of a much older home too. There was sadly a lack of maintenance to this poor little lady but fortunately, we were able to look past her “issues” (and very…