Lucas Corner Farmhouse

I had considered doing a post showing “before” pictures of all the rooms….but I’ve decided to just showcase each room one at a time as we do some work in them. 🙂 That said, here is the Hall Bathroom BEFORE! Hall Bath Before (Listing Photo) Let me preface this by saying…we have a binder where we have pictures, to-do lists, and price lists of projects for the house and at the front of the binder is a simple one year calendar outlining what projects we plan to do this year and when. We only filled in that calendar through June, knowing that things will need to be shuffled, pushed back, moved forward, or may take more (or less) time than we anticipate. The Hall Bath wasn’t on the calendar yet because it was something we thought we might start to tackle towards the second half of this year. However, a piece of the sink piping broke and water covered the (heavily cracked) tile floor and flooded the (older) pressed wood vanity. It was obvious that this wasn’t the first time that the van...

During our first two years of marriage, we lived in an apartment in a  dorm  residence hall with nearly 100 college ladies. Those two years are highly documented through lots of pictures, recipes, and sewing projects on our blog. We loved living on campus and being able to walk anywhere we wanted around our “little” college town. If the weather was nice, we would grab a jacket and walk about a mile to downtown and eat at one of our favorite local restaurants.  For the following year, we moved into a friend’s 2 bedroom 2 bath trailer while she was trying to sell it from across the country. Living there was very different from living on campus! We went from being in the center of a large university surrounded by people all the time to being “in the country” surrounded by cotton fields and horse pastures. We were only about 10 minutes from campus (if that!) but it felt like we were in another town. Walking to eat dinner wasn’t an option, but we did have the conv...