Now you know why you’ve never seen it before!

Eek.. We’re finally back, and we’ve got a lot to share from the last 14 days.It’s going to be a looong drawn-out process, but we’re so glad you’re along for the ride..The house is all packed (mostly).

The truck is here.Tomorrow we take off to our new/old hometown..Pardon my absence tomorrow while I’m off having the third best day of my life!There are all kinds of things wrong with our new home, but we take them all on gladly..

It needs a ton of work on the inside to make it feel like a real home for us, but when you start with a shell like this, how can you go wrong?.We were able to do a final walk-through over the weekend and got to see everything again and see if it was all just as we’d remembered it.

I had a great time getting some quick photos around the property in the peak of Summer and (bonus!)

the rooms all seemed much bigger and brighter than what we remembered.. We are thrilled.My mom and I refinished it a couple of years ago, but kept the knobs in the original white chippy paint, just to compare and also I think it looks neat..

So I waited until the day I could put all these elements together thinking it would all come out looking great and really anchor that corner of the room..I added some daffodils from the yard, because I always think they make everything look even better.. Then I stood back and looked at it.. And tried to love it.. And the same thing bugged me about it, that always bugs me about everything.. And I said to myself, I said “Self, just stop it.

It’s not going to work.I’ve been putting lipstick on a pig.