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WELCOME TO HAVEN HOUSE

Building a haven from a hovel

You are invited to explore the trials and tribulations of updating a lake house from the 1960s. I am grateful to have the opportunity to share in this journey with you.

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Baby It's Cold Outside: Fireplace Reveal

Even in the early days of planning for our home addition, we knew we wanted a fireplace in the great room. In fact, you can see it in the...

Clever Cover Up: A Built-In Reveal

After the contractors left in mid-July 2022, we (read: my handy Mr.) did a lot. A lot. Including: insulating and re-siding the exterior,...

Kitchen Reveal

After almost 3 years, we finally achieved the updated kitchen we had been hoping for. Woot! From this vantage, you can see the Ikea...

Main Bathroom Updates

The previous owners had done us the solid of updating the main bathroom, so this room was not a total gut job like the master bathroom...

Evolution of a Fireplace

Remember this bad boy? Right, well - recall that in the remodel plans this fireplace is nixed. So, we didn't want to spend a lot of money...

Guest Bedroom Reveal

We finally got around to making some progress on one of our spare rooms, the larger of the two and the room that we use for adult guests...

Master Bedroom Reveal

At our old home, we had a large master bedroom with a lovely walk in closet and it was great. It looked like this (see below). It was...

Hallway Reveal

Fresh off our success with the master bathroom we (read: I) was inspired to take on another project. You see, all throughout the house we...

Master Bathroom Reveal

While we work on our home extension and all of the corresponding red tape, we decided to get a start on some of the bits of the home that...

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