From a battle on an actual battleship, to a surprise new challenge – it was a CRAZY week! It was so much fun getting to visit the USS North Carolina and explore below deck in an intense challenge to win an extra two hours of working time for our 36-hour challenge room! We’re both superrr […]

All of the tea on our WINNING guest suite! That gives us not one, but two wins so far, and we took the victory for both the main and guest suites! Starting out with the bedroom portion, it really wasn’t in too bad of shape. We knew the dated paneling and carpet had to go, […]

This week was one of our FAVORITE rooms in our whole beach house! We started a bit unsure of how to make this space a statement, especially with the tiny off-shoot bathroom that was connected to the living room. We already closed off access to the bedroom that used to be accessible through the living […]

When we found out we were headed to Oak Island, North Carolina for HGTV’s Battle on the Beach Season 4, we were a little in disbelief. If we didn’t have a 14 hour car ride to let it sink in, we might not have believed it at all. We’ve watched HGTV forever, and were even […]

After we hired a builder for our home renovation – and we’re hung out to dry by them – I (Sam) was left figuring out how to be a general contractor for our HUGE home renovation/remodel/addition, all while Sean and I both worked full time jobs. Feeling a bit unsure of how I was going […]

What started as a little Instagram page to update our families on our farm reno pretty quickly gained some attention that we never expected in the crazy world of the internet. One year, 200 posts, 12,000 followers and over 92,000 likes later here we are. In the spirit of our gram-aversary (yep, that means Instagram […]

I have to start off by saying: the photos in this post don’t evennn kind of do justice to the chaos of what our property originally looked. Not. Even. A. Little. If you would like a little bit of visualization though, I can tell you in the first weekend we became homeowners we collected 17 […]

One thing that we didn’t know when buying the farm (not that we had any idea what we were getting into at all), was that we were going to acquire quite a bit of artwork. Not just any art work: graffiti in every room of our house… including the exterior… and the carpet. Our house […]

Guys I swear, it’s not as bad as it looks. Okay, it’s pretty bad – but the bones aren’t too shabby! Our first weekend of demo at the farm we had freezing rain all day and had to actually cut a path through the world’s largest hedges to be able to get inside. So far […]

A few people have asked what we were thinking – I’m not totally sure I can explain that one, but I would like to give you a little insight into this beautiful mess of ours. One year and eight months ago Sean and I were headed to babysit my nieces. I headed out a little […]