Home.

For as long as my husband and I have been together, we’ve shared a dream of owning a home.  Well, we finally did it!  And it’s terrifying!  But I hear everyone feels that way, so we’re just going with it, making one payment at a time.

With our small (for the Bay Area!) budget, we thought we’d end up with a major fixer-upper but life had other plans in store and we wound up with a house that was remodeled top to bottom about three years ago.  We were still excited for a project, so leave it to us to find plenty of other things to do. 

Here’s a brief list we plan on tackling over the next year:

Make a built-in in our dining room

Add a brick wall to our living room

Make a tufted headboard

Build a dining room table

Add a third bedroom with an ensuite bathroom

Repaint:  I’m thinking Edgecomb gray for all the common spaces and Revere Pewter for the master bedroom!

The husband wants to tackle some more serious projects like insulating the whole house (darn contractors didn’t do that in their major remodel!) and installing a whole house water filter.  Let the DIYing begin!