I’m hoping to write quite a bit about our home, and soon–we purchased it as a very sad and miserable foreclosure in late 2007, and have been busy transforming it (and re-transforming it!) over the past nearly eight years. I hate that I did not follow our progress in written form. It’s been a tumultuous eight years here, with lots of learning and frustration and making things work and making them work again, which lead to a true blossoming of our mature aesthetic. At least, that’s what I like to think!
Someday I will share the long process of each room becoming the way it looks now, but in the meantime, here are some before-and-afters of the house as we bought it and how it exists today.

The “dining room” has been a sitting room/guest room for the past three years. (That’s a sleeper sofa.)

The nook for Christmas 2015.
This is just half of the space–some areas are being tweaked. I’ll add them as they become presentable!