House & Home
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Colorado House Renovation Before and After, Part 2
This is part two of my blog post about how we flipped our own house, doing a renovation and updating in 6 weeks, prior to listing it for sale. In Part One, I showed you the major changes upstairs when we took a wall between the dining, living room, and kitchen down to a half…
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House Flipping: Before and After Renovation
in ShortsWho likes a good before and after post? Its officially been a year since I moved to Texas and I thought it was about time that I blogged about what I did to “flip” our house. By investing in a renovation, we were able to sell our house for $89k more than we would have…
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Designed to Sell: Flipping Our House, Part 1
It’s officially been a year since I arrived in Texas. When we decided to list our house for sale during our spontaneous cross-country move, I somehow managed to talk Chris into taking a gamble on a full renovation and trying to “flip” our house. For a while now, the Fort Collins real estate market has…
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A Peek Inside Our New House
We’ve been living in our new house for ten days and it is mostly put together now. The past two weeks from our expected close date to the actual close date to moving mid-week was pretty stressful, but as of yesterday we’ve felt pretty settled. Buying a house in Fort Collins was a bit of…
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Northern Colorado Urban Homestead Tour
This weekend we went on the Northern Colorado Urban Homestead Tour. The tour was a fundraiser for The Gardens at Spring Creek in Fort Collins and featured three houses in Fort Collins and three houses in Loveland which opened up their backyards to visitors. Chris and I have been dreaming about the possibility of growing more…
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Work Space
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, Nora practically runs away from me in her rush to get to school. She is loving the cute little Montessori preschool we found for her in a renovated house, making a bunch of friends, and having such a grand old time she hardly wants to be at home. (Or stop for…
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We Are Officially One of Those Families…
The house we are renting is a little 3 bedroom/1.5 bath ranch. It’s cozy and recently updated, and though it is a downsize from our house in Gillette, it’s really starting to grow on me. The location is going to be perfect for returning to a walking and biking lifestyle (just as soon as it…
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Post-Thanksgiving Gratitude
📍 WyomingThis is my last thankful post for 30 Days of Thanks. On Thanksgiving there was so much to be thankful for: both girls cooperating so that Chris and I could sleep in until 9:30(!), of course delicious food, Chris being home with us when we thought he was going to have to be at work,…
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Buttermilk Biscuits + Our Lovely New Kitchen
📍 WyomingI am in love with our new kitchen. It’s light and bright. It’s big and spacious. It’s the first kitchen we have ever had that actually fits every one of our appliances, kitchen tools and cooking utensils, with room to spare. It has double ovens, just waiting for Chris to fill with all sorts of…
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