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No. 72: The Juicy Home Renovation Update You've Been Waiting For--A Photo Journal of our New Home So Close to the Finish Line

No. 72: The Juicy Home Renovation Update You've Been Waiting For--A Photo Journal of our New Home So Close to the Finish Line

Get a coffee. Grab a snack. I have lots of photos for your eyeballs, y'all.

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No. 72: The Juicy Home Renovation Update You've Been Waiting For--A Photo Journal of our New Home So Close to the Finish Line
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the homeschool room makes me so, so happy.

We’re just a smidge (longer than you’re thinking the word smidge means, though) away from completing our from-the-studs-up renovation and I’m starting to get the kind or butterflies that just don’t leave. I visit the house so many times each week than sometimes, it’s hard to see how much it’s changing. It’s almost impossible to think about what it was like when we first walked the property three years ago, and praise God for that, but sometimes it’s nice to look back just to recognize how long we’ve come. Is it taking a lifetime? Yes. But when I remember the fact that this place didn’t use to have walls and that one day we showed up to find the entire roof destroyed…I tell myself “great things take time.” So here we are.

This will be a bit of a photo journal of where we’re at right this minute and what we have ahead of us before move-in. All of these photos are completely unedited and just taken straight from my camera roll so you can get a sense of the light and space on different days and weeks.

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