Although many of my favorite blogs share the common thread of home design, it's only an interest for me, one of a handful of things I never get bored of ... like Target, HGTV, Ben & Jerry's, and my new SLR camera. To accommodate this particular interest, I keep a huge binder stuffed with ideas: pages torn from design mags, dozens of paint chips, fabric samples, etc ... I started my design binder the year I was engaged, so I hit the ground running as a newlywed and first-time home owner, bursting with energy and ideas. I couldn't wait to put together a real "home", with personal touches and style way beyond the limitations of renting apartments all those years before ... the binder came busting to life inside our beautiful 1800 sq foot colonial. It was a dream of curb appeal, over 75 years old when we bought it, and bursting with 1920's charm, see for yourself ...
Charming on the outside, but this beautiful dream house was really stuck in the 1980's on the inside (think vertical blinds and pastel shag carpet, I cringe just to write it). All the better we said. We bought the house and had a great time with the renovations - we rolled up our sleeves, threw the shag carpeting out a 2nd floor window, and totally made it our own ... I never took photos of the process, so there's not much more I can show from those blissful days on Birch Street. But I took photos when we did it all over again a few years later with our current home - so in the coming months I'd love to post some of those fun transformations. I hope you'll stay tuned ...
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