Continuing with the behind the scenes of our kitchen remodel, this post will go over ripping and installing faux shiplap. When Christy told me she wanted to cover every inch of wall with shiplap, I died a little inside. It sounded like a lot of work. At least I could get it easily ripped into…
Month: January 2021
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie…
Or more accurately, if you give Christy a new kitchen, she’s going to want a new dining room to go with it. Yes, I want to redo our dining room now. It’s a minor project – just paint, a new overhead light, and maybe some new wall decor. I also wanted to cover our ceiling…
Working Toward Retirement – January
I didn’t realize it last month, but we broke the $100,000 mark in our retirement savings. That’s a great milestone. I can’t wait to hit the next milestone – $200,000. As I stated last month, we were able to max out both of our Roth IRAs with the help of my bonus and our savings….
The Cost of Remodeling a Kitchen
I want to talk about the cost of remodeling a kitchen. Let me warn you – it isn’t cheap! To save money, we had our hands in nearly every project – even the ones we paid other people to complete. Today I am going to tell you how much we paid for various projects in…
Kitchen Remodel: Behind the scenes – Double pantry
Christy unveiled the final results of our kitchen remodel, but I thought I’d go back through the project and review some of the things we did for the first time in our lives. No better place to start than where we did – our fabulous double pantry. I’m famous for four words in our house…
Kitchen Remodel: The Completed Project
This post has been a looooong time coming. I am excited to finally share our completed DIY kitchen remodel with you. It turned out even better than I imagined. We lived with our original kitchen for nearly 15 years. During that time, we became intimately familiar with all of it’s flaws. This was a blessing…
Saving for the future – January 2021!
Ahhh. A new year, full of hope and possibilities. Let’s hope it’s not Groundhog Year where we live 2020 over again. This month in Savings we saved our normal $500 and earned $6.60 in interest. And thanks to our ridiculous government that hands out money they don’t have to people that don’t need it, we…
Ways to Save on Kitchen Cabinets
We are officially done with our kitchen renovations. Yes, it only took us 4 loooong months to finish the project. The crazy part is that we worked on this project almost daily. In fact, I spent the last month painting our cabinets at night after the children were in bed. Despite how long it took…