Before we jump into Scary Room progress, we’ve been bursting to share with you that Chris and Julia have asked us and Daniel to help them give a reader kitchen or bathroom a big before and after moment as a part of the Lowe’s Spring Makeover! Applications to submit your space are open right now […]

Before we jump into Scary Room progress, we’ve been bursting to share with you that Chris and Julia have asked us and Daniel to help them give a reader kitchen or bathroom a big before and after moment as a part of the Lowe’s Spring Makeover! Applications to submit your space are open right now and close Friday (tomorrow!) at midnight EST. This falls right under a ‘pinch us’ moment, and we can’t wait to work alongside our DIY loving friends. Go here to learn more and apply! Last week, we had a two man team knocking out the heftier items on our Scary Room punch list – things like new electrical, reframing our closet (and ensuring a proper header was in place), and leveling out the subfloor. What was estimated to take five days, they tackled in four. They came early in the morning and stayed a little later into the evening, and as they left each night, we’d take a peek for ourselves and point out all the changes, feeling drunk on progress. It’s always so exciting to watch a room go from so bad to not so bad to we can work with this!

The closet saw one of the most noticeable transformations. What was once an off-c...