Mauro Burgio

With snacks and help with homework and time on my hands to sit and do nothing after school for a while..

🙂 I’ve found I’m really enjoying this phase of the project though, which seems kind of unlikely given the state of my bedroom right now.Over the past 7 years or so we’ve renovated most of one house, which we sold, and we’ve been through lots of different phases of renovation on this house as well.

The state of unfinishedness has been constant so I’ve picked up a few tricks for keeping my head on straight throughout the process along the way.Here are my thoughts!.1) Lower your expectations for how much you’re going to get done in a given amount of time.

And then lower them again..They say that when you’re remodeling, things will always take twice as long as you think and cost twice as much.

As a DIYer, I’d say this is completely false.

While things aren’t always as expensive as I think they will be, because we do the labor ourselves, projects can easily take us, like, 10 times as long as I think they should.Now, we have an old unfunctioning chimney, just no fireplace.

It’s OK, house, I still love you..I decided I still needed something mantle-ish to accommodate my decorating needs, so Chris built me a little something..

The top is reclaimed barn wood and the legs are old 2 by 4s that Chris took out of the wall upstairs when we was re-studding Kennedy’s closet.. I’m not quite done decorating it yet, but I’m sharing it anyway.I wanted to get some hay and maybe a big mum for underneath it, but I then I didn’t.