WHERE IT ALL STARTED…

When Brandon and I bought our home in 2014 we were totally clueless about what we were getting into. I remember Brandon naively telling his grandfather that we would be done with the construction in a “few months.” 5 years later we were finally hanging the kitchen cabinets on the wall. You might remember the days of us living upstairs of the house we resentfully- er, I mean, affectionately called our studio apartment, complete with our closet kitchen.

Both of us have always loved doing projects. For me, I first got my hands dirty refurbishing old furniture at our first apartment. I have always had this creative side to me that I loved expressing through art and decor. I fell in love with the process while transforming a piece of furniture. So when this opportunity to buy a fixer-upper on the river came along, of course, I jumped on board.

During the process of our renovation, I decided to get my real estate license. I thought, “Hey, if Chip and Joanna can do it, we can too!” My business took off, but not in the way I had imagined. We weren’t flipping houses like I initially dreamed we would do. I was helping my friends and their friends find houses in a real estate market that was shifting faster than you could say: “Sold!”

Brandon and I have taken what we’ve learned over those 5 years of rebuilding our home from the inside out and are now applying that knowledge to the 450 sq/ft addition we are building onto our little river cottage. We already have some important takeaways from the process. I hope you enjoy reading along and learning with us as we go along.