Young Victorian

Share our adventure in transforming a not-so-old mountain Victorian into an updated, upbeat, and simplified home. We've been working hard to preserve all of the architectural character and charm normally found in a vintage Victorian, while creating a brand new personality for this lovely lady!

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    In the Beginning… We Needed A House (Part 1)

    Ah, thanks so much for joining us! So I thought it best to start in the beginning, way back in mid-2015 when we set-out to find the home of our dreams! While we had been living in Colorado since December of 2010, we had only been renting and while we were very fortunate to live in two amazing rental homes over the course of 4 1/2 years, we were desperately itching to buy our own home again. Rent First, Buy Later But that’s not quite the beginning,  I really should back-up and talk about why we had to rent homes in Colorado initially. That discussion is a difficult one, even…

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    Introducing a Young Victorian

    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…