Our Story

We are almost finished with one of the most time consuming projects of our lives: Our Home.

We've spent the last 3 years redoing a foreclosure.  I think we have used almost every spare minute gutting this place and building it back together.  Slowly my goal is to post a few photo's of our progress.  It has been incredibly hard to balance raising 3 little children, a growing company,and home renovations. We've loved the progress and are eager to find another fixer upper to complete in the near future.

Our 2nd floor bathroom was one of the last projects we completed because it was one of the best rooms when we purchased this home, but quickly as we made progress on the rest of the house, it was clear that this bathroom needed a complete renovation.

A few photo's of how we took a bathroom from the 80's to 2015.

The previous owner of our house painted everything GREEN.  I could not wait to say goodbye to the green.

 This shower was covered in dirt on the inside no matter how hard I scrubbed it clean.  I was embarrassed anytime we had overnight guests and they used this shower.

In my dream world, we would have englarged this space rearranged it, and made it look very different, except we knew in our neighborhood it would not be worth that type of money. 

Our first task was to remove all of the ugly tile and flooring.  Demo took a few evenings to complete and another 2 weeks to clear the house of the dust.

Our house did not have a bathtub, so many hours were spent switching the plumbing from a stand up shower to a bathtub drain.

 We used tiles that looked like wood. We are completely in love with the finished product!

The plank wall took a solid 2 days to cut, hang, and paint, but so worth it! 

 If we had to redo any part of this project it would be the shelf in the corner of the shower.  We had no idea how difficult it was to tile a shelf!

The finished product 

 Joel completely realigned all of the drawers.  The drawers took 8 hours of time alone!

We found a small bath tub at Home Depot which allowed us to give our kids a bath for the first time in 3 years.

A hook for each person in our family has been transformational.

Most importantly, the kids are happy and look forward to their bath every night. 

The entire project took us about 2.5 months to complete with a 2, 3 & 4 year old running around the house.  It was during our extremely busy months during the year, so think it might have taken half of the time if we would have done it another time. We spent less than $1,500 and feel hopeful it added $10k of value to our home.