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
If you live in Denver, especially the Midtown neighborhood, and have a metal object in your garage that happens to have two wheels, it’s about time to dust that thing off and take advantage of Denver’s many paved, multi-use trails! … Continue reading
In the last blog post, I detailed how hubby had spent the months between July and November of the first year in our house, landscaping our backyard. It’s kind of funny looking back on how I naively thought DIYing our … Continue reading
Summer is long gone, and our backyard was actually completed over two years ago, so it’s probably about time we revealed our outdoor space! First of all, I should mention that the design of our home, like many of the … 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
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
To save money on our new home purchase, hubby and I had a whole list of home projects we wanted to do ourselves that, in some cases, would have cost us double or triple to have the builder do. In … 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’ll recall from our much earlier posts, one of the reasons why Pie and I showed such great interest in the new home community of Midtown during our house search is because of its close proximity to downtown Denver … 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
We can now officially say that our house hunting adventure is complete! This weekend we moved into our new home and we have been over-the-moon excited that this time has finally come! I’ve been keeping final pics of the house … 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
{ E M & P I E } 