It’s been a year since my husband Austin and I first toured our fixer-upper and it’s been nine months since we moved in. A lot of major changes have happened with our home and our household since January. In a little less than a month, we’re expecting our first child. That news accelerated some giant […]

It’s been a year since my husband Austin and I first toured our fixer-upper and it’s been nine months since we moved in. A lot of major changes have happened with our home and our household since January. In a little less than a month, we’re expecting our first child. That news accelerated some giant ideas we were going to wait on (like fully gutting the kitchen), minimized the importance of projects we had planned to do earlier (like resurfacing the family room walls), and some low-priority things (like decorating our bedroom) have gotten tackled between larger renovations when we probably would have put them off for a while longer. Our bedroom was celery green when we moved in. It was one of the first rooms we painted before our furniture arrived, knowing it would be easy to live in that space without much effort. As bad as some of the other rooms were, this room didn’t require much attention to make it livable. Other than painting, the only thing that had been done to the bedroom between January and July was the removal of small ceiling molding in February. We didn’t have the motivation or time to replace the molding ...