I received free product to facilitate this post — all opinions are my own. This post also contains affiliate links, meaning any purchases made using these links will earn Taz + Belly a small commission. You can read more about our affiliate relationships here. It's been an entire month since I showed you this embarrassing view of our bedroom, but we have made so much progress in the last thirty days. The last eighteen months in this house have been equally weird and wonderful, but I never imagined it would take us this long to refresh a single room. We knew when we moved in that we wouldn't be purchasing the house right away and both families fell into a very comfortable routine of enjoying each other's company and not rushing to make any decisions. The house still hasn't changed hands ...
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The Log House Vlog | Episode One
It's been just over eighteen months since we publicly shared our decision to buy by childhood home. We talked through so many other options before arriving at this one, but after living here (again) for the last seven weeks, it's hard to imagine we considered anything else. There hasn't been a single day where it hasn't felt like home, I haven't accidentally driven to the wrong house, and it turns out that living with your parents can be down right fun if you let it! I haven't shared too much about our move since closing on the Rock House, but I've been hoarding lots of details and I wanted to share them with you before our renovation begins next year. I'm going to play this like a Q&A, so pretend these are answers to all of your burning questions, okay? We haven't unpacked ...
Introducing the Log House Project
It's hard to believe it's been almost a year since I wrote this post. Only a few weeks ago, we found ourselves in that exact same place. We have continued to look at houses and even liked a few of them, but the market in our area is tricky. Everything is either similar in size and price to the Rock House, or it's a huge home on acreage with a matching price tag. We began seriously discussing whether we wanted to tie up all of our money into a house and land. We've looked at floor plans and Pinterest and we're constantly batting ideas back and forth, trying to decide what feels the most like us. Build, buy, stay? At the end of almost every conversation, we come back to the very same place. To make a very long story short, my parents have been talking about down-sizing for years. Their ...