Well, this is my first attempt at blogging. Here it goes! We live in a small, rural community of older homes in Western New York. Our home is a 1916 American foursquare. I would like to share some of our experiences (exhausting, frustrating, joyous, and rewarding) renovating our home since we moved there in October 2003. The most recent renovation we completed was the living room.
This is what the living room looked like when we bought the home (sorry for the photo quality...it was 2003 and our camera wasn't digital then!).
So, the first job we tackled in 2004 was removing the border, painting over the pink (which was painted over wallpaper), and painted the white fireplace. This is what it looked like for awhile:
