Victorian House Fixer Upper; Story of our Life

When you are in your young 20s and purchasing a house, you might not know everything about the choice you are making.  The fact that it is larger, beautiful, and in the budget makes the most sense.  In my foggy memories, I  might remember something like, 'Dear, I just made an offer on a house, do you want to come see it too'  

He might have been playing golf when I went with the relator, I walked in the house saw the beautiful chandelier and the spiral staircase and my mind was made up.  Besides, my parents used to flip houses when I was younger, how hard can it be

So, good thing Kyle has some skills.  Not like nun chuck, or bow staff skills, but like carpentry, painting, lighting, you know handyman skills.  We have put those skills to good use for the 20 years we have lived in our 1874 Victorian home.  

We litteraly renovate something every year.  With the kids moving out our focus for 2019 was their old bedrooms.  I am going to feature today what we call the Crawford suite.  With out of state living children and Kyle's sibilings coming to visit, we started making guest suites.  Suites are a stretch, because let's face it, we only have 1 bathroom in the whole house.

Dakota's old room has become a nice room.  I just love the calm blue walls.

 My Christmas present this year was the Scottish highlander cow picture.  I absolutely love it.  The Crawford's have Scottish roots and so we have a little bit of a Scottish theme, blue, white and outdoorsy.

 My secret Santa at work made me the Crawford sign, which I truly adore.  We aren't finished decorating, but have enjoyed getting things fixed up.  We are working on our old bedroom which I will feature another day.

 This spinning wheel is a family heirloom.  Archibald and Nancy Crawford purchased it for their home.  He is a War of 1812 veteran, so it has been around the family for awhile.

 We have carnival and milk glass items from Grandma Crawford that we have featured in the room too.

Our latest find are the chairs.  It is fun working on these rooms.  Our guests sure have been enjoying them since we finished this up last September.

2020 has our focus from upstairs to the kitchen.  A couple of weeks ago we started tearing down the pantry.

 We are going to farmhouse up the kitchen.  Removing old floors, planning on taking down wallpaper and painting.

 We painted the blue and white check on the floor when we first moved back in 1998.  We are cycling back around and redoing old things.

This is my work horse Kyle.  My version of Chip Gaines in my Victorian Fixer Upper.