Black Window Trim
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Hello friends! While Mike was demo-ing the kitchen in October, I was experimenting with painting the window trim black! It’s a popular trend in the Modern Farmhouse style. Given the clean white walls, I thought it would be a nice contrast.
I find using painters tape tedious and I also have challenges where sometimes the paint will bleed behind the tape despite my best effort. I wanted to experiment with a different method so I tried using this Liquid Mask which I read about in a blog post. You just paint it on. It starts out white but then dries clear as shown below.
Kitchen Demo!
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Back in October, we demo-ed the kitchen and by we, I mean mostly Mike.
The kitchen was really in good shape but just out-of-date. To remind you what it looked like:
Hardwood Floors!
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There has been a lot of activity at the country house and so I am quite behind in posting. You may recall that in July and August we took up all the carpet in the main house. This post is for some work we did in September.
Here’s what the floor look liked once we pulled up the carpet, we had a decent subfloor underneath. Thambi is happily wondering through the construction debris.
Carpet Begone!
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Hello friends! I am going to attempt to update more regularly. You will see the glacial pace in which we are updating the country house, in shorter bursts! These pics are from this summer; I am catching up to present day.
You may remember that the moment we moved in, Mike immediately started to rip up the carpets. To be fair, the carpets were white, old, and hella stained:
Here is what they used to look like, although this pic was from the listing and the sellers agent made it look more pristine than it was:
What they look like now, after the jump!
More after the jumpCountry Escape
Or renovation nightmare? To Be Continued...
Hello friends! We have an exciting update which may result in more than 1 post a year (but no guarantees). While I love our little house in the middle of the city, I have always longed for some rural land to escape to near the Shenandoah. I’d often peruse listings out there just for fun and thought that maybe one day closer to retirement, this dream might become a reality. Well, once the pandemic hit and Mike and I were stuck at home for so many months, the walls felt like they were really closing in and at the time we weren’t getting the benefits of living in the city either as everything was pretty much shutdown.
That motivated us to accelerate our time frame. So after a couple of years of hemming, hawing, debating, and searching, we finally bought a house in rural Virginia! This is the pic in the listing that really intrigued us to check this house out:
This all feels a little bit crazy, impulsive, and a bit of a splurge as well. The view is perfect (it’s also better in person, the mountains are very zoomed out in this picture); the house… needs work. A lot of work. And it’s a big house. Much bigger than our house in DC. So have we bit off more than we can chew? Maybe. Only one way to find out!
More after the jump