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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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Small Changes, Big Impact

Sometimes I am guilty of thinking that you can only have a big impact on your space if you are also willing to throw a lot of money at...

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...

The Plan

If you have read just about any of my posts, you know that the Mr. and I want to remodel our home. We spent a long time (several months)...

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...

What's Up Dock

As a former landlubber, I did not consider the money and effort lakefront property owners put into making their frontage usable and...

Haven House Tour

We closed on Haven House on February 14, 2020. Although 2020 brought a lot of challenges for us and for the rest of the world due to the...

Making Lemonade

Here we are in December 2020! We've been in Haven house for *almost* one year. Unfortunately, we had some hard news that is likely to...

Greenbriar House

We closed on Greenbriar House on November 9, 2012 - just a few months before we got hitched. The home was an abandoned foreclosure in a...

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...

Learning Your Boundaries

As you can tell, my husband and I have big plans for Haven House. We intend on staying here for the long haul and are intent on making...

Finding Haven House

We (my husband and I, that is) had always dreamed of living on a lake -- but like many people, we also assumed that the lake house dream...

Infrastructure Upgrades

When you move into your brand new-to-you fixer upper, you learn things and sometimes, frankly the things you learn, you would rather not...

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