Each time I post on Instagram anything about my garden, I get an influx of questions on what the flowers and plants are that I’ve chosen to plant. I’ll be the first to say, I’m super picky about what types of flowers and plants I like, for both the flower… Read more
In my latest of my At Home with LOM series, today I’m talking about re-building a retaining wall in our front and side yard! This project was much needed as our old one was fully falling apart and the old, painted wood was literally break apart little by little each… Read more
More than any other year prior to 2020, we have all spent so much time at home. For Nick and I personally, we used to spend at least one weekend a month traveling as well as multiple weeks per year traveling for work, with all that adding up to a… Read more
As we’ve been stuck at home a lot more this past year than in the past due to the pandemic, we’ve taken the opportunity to do a few touch ups to rooms in our 1925 Dutch Colonial house in Portland. While most of the large renovations happened the first year… Read more
We’ve been in our house for 2.5 years now and it wasn’t until COVID hit and it forced us to stay home as much as we are to make me realize that some spaces in our home really needed some love. Our stairwell was one of those places and to… Read more
When we moved into our 1925 Dutch Colonial house in SE Portland a little over two years ago, one of the first things I wanted to do in our renovation was paint the exterior and see our house’s exterior makeover come alive. From literally the first moment I saw the… Read more
Even though I’ve spent most of the two years living in our 1925 Dutch Colonial house renovating spaces, it’s also really fun to decorate for holidays, especially when we have the space to really go all out. I never really decorated for Halloween in previous homes, partly because October always… Read more
Many of the spaces in our 1925 Dutch Colonial home in SE Portland took us time to renovate. However, our home office was one of the first that we tackled due to the fact that I’ve been working from home for almost a decade and I needed a space right… Read more
Most of our interior spaces have been renovated or remodeled by now in our 1925 Dutch Colonial house in SE Portland, but one of the spaces that we’ve put off since we moved in two years ago, not sure of what we wanted to do, was our basement. We actually… Read more
As we’ve been renovating our 1925 Dutch Colonial house in SE Portland over the past 2 years, we’ve slowly moved through projects, both large and small, hiring contractors and DIY’ing things. But throughout the scope of our renovation, the one room that alluded me for a long time and that… Read more
This year has changed our lives in so many ways. COVID-19 turned our worlds upside down, I personally dealt with loss and the fight for equality is now front and center again (which it should have been always) with BLM protests around the world with millions of people in the… Read more
Upon moving into our house, the list of projects to update and renovate was long. Some were things that I knew would take some time, like our Kitchen Renovation, but others were things I knew I could do somewhat quickly and mostly on my own. One of those projects was… Read more
In my ongoing series about projects we’ve done at our 1925 Dutch Colonial house in Portland, today I’m discussing a project that was one of the biggest we’ve undertaken so far in our house flipping and renovation projects. When we moved in, I knew the kitchen needed an overhaul. First… Read more
When we moved into our 1925 Dutch Colonial house in SE Portland a year and a half ago, it was the first time we’ve had an actual yard, as we’ve been in townhomes and condos previously. Immediately upon moving in, I knew what my long term vision was for the… Read more
Over the past several months, I’ve had several people comment that they would love to see more content here on Land of Marvels about our home renovation, which in turn created this series for that specific purpose. As much as I love to travel, we aren’t doing a lot of… Read more