Renovating our 200-year-old house, one decision at a time
Hi! It has been over a year since we last wrote a blog post and recently we have had a few inquiries from friends and family wondering what the heck we have been up to. Maybe everyone is just a little bored since they can’t really leave their homes, but the requests made us feel more motivated than ever to fill everyone in on what we have been doing and it’s A LOT!
Hi everyone! It has been a couple of weeks since our last blog post and we have been busier than ever working on multiple rooms. If you remember, we asked our readers last month to decide whether or not we should build a loft in our son’s bedroom. I was 99% sure that the pro-loft voters would prevail, but it was not at all the blowout vote that I expected it to be. People don’t believe me when I tell them that we have no control over which way the vote goes. We are really not tech-savvy enough to control the voting plugin that we use (if that is even possible) and just like all of you, we only get one vote per personal device. Sometimes, we are at home biting our nails and just hoping that the vote goes the way we want it to. Truthfully, it doesn’t always and that’s actually part of the fun! This time, we were very much Team Loft and were so excited to get started on the project.
I am sure you would like to see the progress that has been made in the room so far, so without further ado…
I can’t believe it has been almost two weeks since we last updated everyone on the new bedroom! Those weeks were a total whirlwind around here. They were full of taping, sanding, coating, building, Pinning, researching, imagining, and obsessing. I, admittedly, have been way more responsible for the aspects of the job that require me to exert very little physical energy and I have been kind enough to allow Ronan to take on almost all of the manual labor because I only have about 8 more weeks left of using this pregnancy as an excuse to be lazy.
In all seriousness, I have been losing so much sleep over this project, but not because of the reasons I expected. I thought that I would be freaking out about not having a nursery ready for the baby at this point. However, the reality is that we can’t get going on the nursery until we finish this bedroom for our 4-year-old and while we could just rush through this room in order to get to the baby’s room, that doesn’t seem like the right choice. The choice to make the new bedroom feel like a room that was always meant to be in this house seems like the responsible one and that is what we intend to do. While we would like to hurry up this renovation and start finishing up more projects, we owe it to this old house to make the room as special as we can. Rushing through it would be doing the house a disservice. That said, the time for a big decision has come and we would love your help.
