To Make A House A Home

I'm Olivia, a 25 year old nurse purchasing my first home with my boyfriend Nathan. This is how things are going...

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Good bye old! Hello new! Priming the kitchen walls today!

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Adios yellow and wood!🙋🏻🙋🏻🙋🏻

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Nate and Brandon are going ham on the kitchen. So happy! 👏🙋🏻 Bye ugly walls!

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It's beginning to show some green! :)

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Sneak peak of Mel's photo shoot in the barn for her final phase in school. Glad we finally put some of the barn to good use!

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Nate knocked out the hallway wall! Opening up the attic!!

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A busy kitchen is a happy kitchen! Here are my new curtains (valances)! They’re imperfect, but we love them!

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Nate made progress on our beautiful raised garden bed! 👏👏👏🙃🙃🙃

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Nate started making our raised bed garden this weekend. Not the best 90 degree weather task, but awesome anyway!

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I have a problem with clothing, so Nate built me this wonderful storage unit! Everyone thought it was a planter...

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Family dinner! Kyleigh sporting the clay bead necklace I made her!

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Started painting the rest of the kitchen today!! Took forever 😓

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An old mirror broke, so I painted it and it became a photo hanger! I just need smaller clips!

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My mom dropped off mulch so today consists of planting, watering, playing in the dirt, and mulching. Knox is helping! (By pulling the mulch up with the runner when he plays fetch😹)

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Finished! I added roasted potatoes I saved from a previous recipe, sour cream, and green onion (and a shot of tequila!) the flavor is great!!

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Julie got us a free week of blue apron meals... They're delicious so far! Couple things... 1. They give much more than 2 portions, I think more meals with smaller portions would be better! 2. They are very expensive. I could go shopping for the same products and spend the 20$ per meal and get 3-4 meals out of it.

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Macrame making a comeback on my front porch! (Just need a new pot and maybe a happier plant.) Haven’t been crafty lately because of house things and work. Happy to have created something new today!