Only 50 bucks? This is probably a trap, designed to lure stylish 20-something urban females into sex slavery.
Email dispatched! If I don’t make it back, someone please help Jarrod pay the utility bills, because he doesn’t know how.
Hi! It’s been two years since I posted, but I haven’t been sitting idle. This year I kicked off a huge project: finishing our basement! I have a ton of backlogged content to share, so I’m going to break it up in stages in Stories. First up: architectural plans.
I shared some fun news in my IG stories today: our sunroom window project won a Driehaus Award from the Chicago Bungalow Association! Even if you don’t live in Chicagoland, the CBA is an awesome resource for information and inspiration. I’ve referenced their Bungalow Maintenance Guide continually as I work to preserve and improve our home. Thanks to @chicagobungalow for championing vintage homes!
New blog post is up: ✨The sunroom renovation reveal!✨ I plan to self-soothe with the before-and-after image sliders until we know who the next president is. Please join me! Link in profile. #chicagobungalow
This week I’m getting my neglected blog caught up on the sunroom renovation progress I’ve already shared here. The first post went up yesterday (link in profile). I plan to post photos of our finished sunroom by the end of the week. Here’s a sneak peek! Meanwhile, in IG Stories, I shared what I learned from the @chicagobungalow House Research 101 class – we need to take 3 candles off Hauslermo’s birthday cake…
Today I pulled down the tarp and we stood in our living room repeating “Wow. WOW.” This project has been in my brain for 5 years (swipe for the 2015 view) and now it’s here in the real world, bringing a transformative amount of natural light to our first floor. I can’t wait to fill it back up with plants! But first: cleaning and painting and moulding. @themarvinbrand
Thanks to everyone who’s shared in my excitement for our new sunroom and windows! There’s still a lot of work to do, but I am v happy. 💗
Project Palermo 
This made me chuckle. I often imagine really covert and complicated CL traps meant to lure me to my doom. I like to think it prepares me for anything. If I go in expecting a human size mousetrap board game and it turns out the seller was just a scuzzy dude who didn’t want to move his tenant’s/mother’s/roommate’s/girlfriend’s/exgirlfriend’s furniture than I still come out a winner while saving cash. It’s like doomsday projections. If you’re all prepared and the world keeps spinning, at least you’ve got a back stock of Spam and your family has not turned to zombies. I’ll be following your blog, if for no other reason than you are much better at linking information and correctly tagging and categorizing your posts. The other reason is because your projects easily look like something I should know how to do.
I agree: one must always remain vigilant against zombies and CL pervs. Thanks for checking out my blog!