Homes & Spaces

You ready for a looong post? It's time for a house update! A lot has changed since the last time I wrote about our plans to open up the kitchen and lay new flooring. There have been some exciting updates, like the wall coming down and our new flooring getting (mostly) installed...aaaand a few new developments that have thrown us into chaos and made our plans for the kitchen completely shift. You […]

This is a collaborative post. All opinions are my own. I have several friends who have DIY'd major house projects and I follow a lot of bloggers who do their own home renovations. At the same time, I know a lot of people who hire out every little thing from demo to painting. We fall somewhere in between. We'd always prefer to save money, but sometimes the time and effort […]

Well guys, we've officially started on our kitchen remodel! We actually got started last week as soon as we got back from the Oregon Coast, and we've already made some major ch-ch-ch-changes. I snapped these pictures on Friday, but it doesn't look like this anymore. Over the weekend, the wall came completely down! I was nervous, but it's everything I hoped for; the kitchen already feels bigger and lighter, and […]

This past year, I've gotten really interested in financial podcasts and blogs. In many of them, I noticed a common thread: "house hacking." The basic principle is to buy a house, live in a portion of it, then rent out the rest, so the rent covers your mortgage. Housing is usually one of your biggest expenses, so doing this is huge...you're essentially living for free! The most common example is […]