08/31/2017
Dudes! We’re renovating an 1928 mercantile store and turning it into our dream home! Start from the beginning here! Uncovering the brick on the front of the Merc has been a huge undertaking. In the 1940’s when the original store
08/29/2017
Hey hey!! You know when you have a new perspective come into your life and it makes you take pause? Well, my sister Amy just bought their first house (YAY!!!) and so we are in constant conversation about home decor
08/28/2017
A huge eye-opening lesson that I’ve learned with the Merc, is just how much planning ahead of time has to go into building or renovating. I’m admittedly a fly by the seat of my pants kind of girl. Its who
08/24/2017
A few weeks ago Court and I took the BEST trip to Chicago! I’ve partnered up with Elkay to create some really cool projects this year (I can’t wait to show you!!) and to kick things off they brought us,
08/21/2017
Hey Hey!!! Guys. The Merc reno is CRUISING. In my last video+post I mentioned that we had a HVAC saga to discuss. Are you ready to hear how it quite literally almost ruined all of my design plans?! So lets
08/18/2017
Hey guys!! Happy Friday! Things are cruising around here!! The windows for the bedrooms were cut yesterday and the framing and electrical are 95% done! The HVAC system is in and I am just SO happy!!! Ok so, we all
08/16/2017
Its pretty early around these parts, 4:03 am to be exact but I just woke up with a very distinct impression that I need to put together a time-capsule for the Merc and you guys need to be part of
08/15/2017
So we’ve come to the conclusion that there is not a single surface in the Merc that is straight. F’real. So many #mercperks. Our framer had the walls and ceilings in pretty quick (like 4 days!!!) but we keep having
08/11/2017
Dudes! We’re renovating our dream house, an old mercantile store build in 1928! Follow along from the beginning here! I have so much to tell you!! The most important being WE HAVE WALLS! Well…sort of. We have wall skeletons! The
08/09/2017
Dudes! We’re renovating our dream house, an old mercantile store build in 1928! Follow along from the beginning here! One of the biggest and most obvious dilemmas that we faced off the bat with the floor plan for the Merc