As we prepare to mark our first year here at Sugar Maple, I’m pulled back into memories from last Christmas. It was a difficult holiday being on the precipice of moving the day after Christmas. We threw up the tree and strung up one money string…
In our previous house, decorating the kitchen for the holidays isn’t something that would have crossed my mind. While the kitchen was central to providing delicious holiday food that everyone dreams of, I’ve always seen it as more of a tool versus a place to be…
Growing up my grandmothers always had the most beautiful holiday tables. My maternal grandmother’s table was (and still is) always eclectic. With a big Italian family, holidays always had 30 people or more per celebration. We had nice table clothes with paper appetizer plates, baskets of…
Now that there’s 3-inches of snow on the ground and everyone is thinking about Christmas, I thought I would share my living room Thanksgiving/Fall décor. 🙂 In truth, I’ve had this room decorated the longest. It was the first space that I decorated way back after…
You know how when you look at a space and something just feels off? Some element of the design, the architecture or the color just feels poorly placed? That’s how I felt looking at the kitchen in the barn. Yep. That kitchen that we JUST put…
Fall is my favorite season of the year. The weather, the colors of the season and the food are all things that I find comfort in. Even though things are going to sleep in the fall, I have a sense of renewal and awakening on morning…
I’m so happy to report that the barn renovation is about 97 percent complete! It’s been a long six months since the start of this project but we can see the finish line now and have started cleaning all the dust off things. There’s still a…
I’ve never built a space from the ground up. Any renovations we did before moving to this house were all done within the constraints of the walls in previous houses. So, until now, I’ve never been able to design a place from start to finish. Sure,…
I’ve been over here dragging my feet on a barn conversion update because it felt like there wasn’t much to see yet. But now that I go back and compare where we are to where we were, it’s incredible to see the progress that’s been made!…
We moved the girls and Mr. Basil into our Horizon Structures chicken coop a few weeks ago and so far, they are loving life out there. Due to our crummy weather this spring, we weren’t able to move them out until they were about 8 weeks…
