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Guest room: Before and After

February 20, 2012

Why haven’t I been blogging much? Because I’ve become obsessed with decorating my house. Today, I’m ready to show you all our guest room. We didn’t really have anything in the budget for the guest room. It’s not used often, so putting a lot of money into it doesn’t make any sense. We bought a [...]

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Family Bathroom: Before and After

January 3, 2012

When we bought our house, we knew we wanted to renovate the guest bathroom. Our wish was to update all the bathrooms, but a full bathroom renovation is very expensive, and we could only afford to renovate one full bath. There is another full bath on the basement level that was not in great shape. [...]

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Kids’ Room: Before and After

November 7, 2011

The room we chose for the kids was the previous owner’s home office.  Here’s the before: and here’s the after: The color scheme was mostly decided on by Oliver.  He wanted a blue room, so I picked out a couple swatches and he chose the shade he wanted.  He also picked out the bed sheets. [...]

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Still Daddy’s Girl

November 2, 2011

It’s been 10 years and I still miss you, daddy, every single day. I miss our long talks. My dad was my best friend.  He was an avid gardener and loved clematises, planting them wherever he could. Now that I have a garden of my own, I’ve planted three clematises so far.  Every time I [...]

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Oan wunderschoenn guadn moagn !

October 24, 2011

This is the view I enjoyed with my coffee (the view when I woke was pitch black, as the kids decided 6:30 was a good time to get up). 7:30am 7:50am 8:15am 10:00am Is it just me, or are the leaves not changing color this year?  They seem to just be falling off the trees [...]

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Guest Bathroom: Before and After

October 12, 2011

When we first saw our house, we loved everything about it except this room. We knew that this room had to be renovated. We just couldn’t live with baby poop yellow wall tile.  A few thousand Euro later, here’s what we ended up with: We found the mirror in the clearance section at Kare. Some [...]

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10 years after 9-11

September 10, 2011

I still remember it vividly.  Turning on the television on the morning of September 11 and watching live as a second plane hit the Twin Towers.  I sat stunned, unable to turn away, then I called my best friend, my father. My father worked for the Department of Defense in the Inspector General’s Office.  He [...]

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