I don’t know if home anniversaries are a thing, but I’m gunna go ahead and celebrate our five-year home anniversary anyway! When hubby and I met in March 2011, he was living in his own beautiful southwestern-style home in Albuquerque, … Continue reading
PLEASE NOTE: The area surrounding and trail leading to Ice Lake Basin have been closed since November 2020 due to a wildfire and is subject to stay closed until September 2021. Please check trail conditions before heading out. I’m ashamed … Continue reading
One of the latest DIY projects hubby completed was our kitchen backsplash. Oddly enough, this was one of the projects that we thought we would do right away when we moved into the house because we thought the kitchen walls … Continue reading
Although getting a dog door installed may not have been an option from our home builder, this was yet another DIY project we hubby took on after moving in. Do the dogs really need their own door? The dachshunds are … Continue reading
Admittedly, DIYing the cabinet hardware in our kitchen and bathrooms was one of the small projects I was most nervous about, and at the same time one of the things hubby was least nervous about. In my mind, it felt … Continue reading
We took a few months off from house projects during the Winter, but come this last Spring, it was “go” time again! We started off with something easy — our guest room! We had some guests coming to stay with … Continue reading
It’s been almost four months since Pie and I moved into our brand spankin’ new home in the new home community, Midtown at Clear Creek, and we have been just as eager as you [perhaps] to see our “diggings” finally … Continue reading
If you’re still following along our new home journey, you might be anxiously awaiting to see how our selections for our new home turned out. Believe me, I was just as anxious to see how everything would turn out, too! … Continue reading
Ideally, I would have blogged this post as we were going through the journey of having a new home built, but I was too busy playing catch-up on the other posts that I never got around to this part. As … Continue reading
Several months after choosing our layout and lot at Midtown, we were finally able to start meeting with vendors to choose the details and options for our home. I had thought this was going to be the really exciting and … Continue reading
After house hunting for less than two months, Pie and I had decided we would buy a brand new home from an urban infill community called Midtown at Clear Creek. Our next step was to pick a house! Just when … Continue reading
When we last left off in our house hunting adventure, hubby and I couldn’t decide whether we should choose a home in Midtown or Stapleton. We finally discovered the deal-breaker was that we didn’t want a house with a tiny … Continue reading
Pie and I were really torn when we were house hunting for a brand spankin’ new home in Denver. What a first world problem to have! Aye! We were trying to decide between a new home in a community called … Continue reading
After hubby and I decided we were going to get a brand spankin’ new home, instead of a pre-owned home, it didn’t take us very long to narrow down which new home communities we were interested in. Since we had … Continue reading
In my last post I talked about hubby’s and my search for a new home in our new city. After less than a month of looking at homes online that fit our criteria — within biking distance to downtown, 2+ … Continue reading
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