Spring Time & Salvaged Goods
Sometimes you just get lucky. Luke had been informed of the old brick house in Winterset that was scheduled to be demolished any day in order to build a hy-vee in it’s place. This knowledge had been known by most…
We Have An Air Date
Remember how we applied for a new show on HGTV called West End Salvage based on the Des Moines store West End Architectural Salvage? …Or how we spent two pretty crazy weeks refinishing the floors, building base boards, staining, putting…
Perry Before Christmas
homemade ornaments! ^^ Luke uses his sleeves to apply wood stain when he can’t find a rag around …also, he’s a good sport for letting me snap photos of him when he wakes up ^^ The room is now warm…
Perry Work Weekend 20-22
Uncle Harold had removed a gas stove top from a home and gifted it to Luke and I — luke insisted we put it together and use it as our temporary cook top — and has since been trying to…
Eclectic Wood Kitchens
in reference to my previous post about the science cabinet I did a little digging to find some inspiration images where they used reclaimed wood and/or furniture in the kitchen. I love the eclectic industrial look some of them have,…
The Science Cabinet
a few weeks ago Luke and I attended Junk Jubilee , which is held at the Iowa State Fair Grounds (twice?) a year. We were on a mission to find an island piece and/or an eat in kitchen table &…
Perry Work Weekend #19
THE BASEBOARDS! We were given a short deadline to try and figure out a solution on replacing/recreating the baseboards and we were so lucky to have my dad and his creative problem solving on our side..he had done this for…
Perry Work Week #19
After the floors were sanded the next day we began the process of cleaning them! lots of sweeping, vacuuming, and hurt knees…then we went over with the tack cloth and a rag with mineral spirits to get the little pieces…
Perry Work Weekend #18
The Floors! I spent the morning running around doing errands and when I returned my father had started sanding the floors and it was exciting to see the real color of the wood! It was extremely light and blonde in…
Perry Work Week #18
Once we removed all the wallpaper it exposed much of the imperfections of the old plaster // cracks, dents, scratches…etc so we spent about one week (!! >> luke, really..it’ll be okay !! ha *(i just hope i’m not singing…
