I know it’s been very slow going around here with the posts, but we have been doing some stuff–so I thought I’d check in with some updates despite the absence of anything….finished. For example: remember my brand new bathroom that I did a big reveal about a few weeks ago? I changed something in there already: Can you spot the … Continue reading
This is the first year I haven’t managed a Halloween decorating post of any sort, which is kind of a bummer, but….things are busy and all that. Next year! Maybe! I hope! Because Halloween decorating is fun. We did do a little bit of decorating, just nothing exciting enough to blog about (I mean. I guess I’m kind of blogging … Continue reading
Progress on our downstairs half-bath is slow, but it is happening. We have new lights! And we hung up a mirror! This room remains difficult to photograph. I have a feeling it’s going to stay that way. Wide angle lens, 6 second shutter speed….not only is it a narrow room with no windows. It’s a narrow room with no windows … Continue reading
What we really like to do is to start some kind of big project that absolutely has to be done by a certain, not very far away, time. Like re-doing a guest bath right before a bunch of people arrive for Christmas. Or tearing down our old deck right before we go out of town for two months on a … Continue reading
One of the first things we did when we moved into this house was buying Ikea Billy shelves and glass doors for the formal living room turned library. Six years later, it’s one of the few things I’ve never been tempted to change. Aesthetically, I still love how they look and how they’re one of the first things you see … Continue reading
Happy New Year! I meant to do a Christmas recap post before this one, but we’re actually picking up the last of our Christmas presents today, and I wanted to be able to include them in the Christmas post, so I’m switching things up. I just took a look back at my post about 2017 house plans from last year … Continue reading
I meant to have one more post about something other than how I’m not posting anymore this year up today, but then it got late and the photos weren’t edited and the next episode of The Crown beckons…so instead I’m just posting right quick to say Merry Everything to all of you, thank you so much for spending some of … Continue reading
We’re off on our big ol’ cross country road trip! You can follow along on the travel blog for weekly updates and in depth posts about the non-house/architecture stuff we see, but here I’m going to do some posts about historic houses and assorted other cool old buildings along the way. We had a quick overnight stop in Nashville with … Continue reading
Post contains affiliate links. Thanks for supporting Boxy Colonial! (if you buy something after clicking on an affiliate link, I make a little money, and the cost to you is the same) I don’t know if you all realized this or not, but we’re leaving in less than two weeks on our ginormous, cross-country, summer RV road trip ! Ack! We started planning this … Continue reading
You can’t throw a rock without hitting a plantation or other historic home in Charleston. So when I was planning our itinerary for our Spring Break trip, I didn’t want us to tour just any old historic homes. I wanted the best ones and, in particular, the ones with something a little….different about them. I ended up settling on Mcleod … Continue reading