This is for those of us without fancy cutting machines or special materials around, unless you count wax paper as a special material, which sometimes I do!.

Over the past 7 years or so we’ve renovated most of one house, which we sold, and we’ve been through lots of different phases of renovation on this house as well.The state of unfinishedness has been constant so I’ve picked up a few tricks for keeping my head on straight throughout the process along the way.

Here are my thoughts!.1) Lower your expectations for how much you’re going to get done in a given amount of time.And then lower them again..

They say that when you’re remodeling, things will always take twice as long as you think and cost twice as much.As a DIYer, I’d say this is completely false.

While things aren’t always as expensive as I think they will be, because we do the labor ourselves, projects can easily take us, like, 10 times as long as I think they should.

But that’s what happens when you’re living a life at the same time.Of course the decorating festivities continue as always.

Nothing new there..This time we’re going to visit the mudroom off the front kitchen entrance.. Let’s get to it!.

I started out a couple of weeks ago by painting the ugly glossy forest green door this fun barn red and from there I was pretty much unstoppable, as I’m sure you’ll be able to tell..The sugar beet field near our house was harvested last week and they knocked over a bunch of neighboring corn stalks in the process.