Lemon Thistle

Sharing our FULL renovation home tour- come see behind the scenes of living through renovations the DIY way. From the freshly remodelled spaces to the in progress renovations and the spaces we NEVER show that are yet to be touched. Also sharing our DIY renovation plans for this house and the next few years.

I wanted to do a home tour like this for a few reasons. At first, I wanted to do one that was just of our everyday home decor- not seasonal, so I’d have photos to share throughout the year but also so that I wasn’t showing you our house only when it had decorations… like that is the only time it’s good enough to share.

But then more questions came in about how our rooms fit together in our house and why I only share one view of our bedroom. And I got comments about how our renovation is going so fast and how others are feeling frustrated living in an unfinished space, ‘it must be nice to be so close to done!’. And you guys… our house is far from done! And we have those same feelings of frustration sometimes- there’s so much more to do and DIY can be… well, slow! And I am really not a hide-the-wreck type of person, so I wanted to show up that way online too. We have definitely made progress, I won’t discount that! You can see how far we’ve come just by looking at our original house tour when we bought this place a year and a half ago!

I’ve written about living through renovations with kids (toddlers! at the time) before and shared the things we were working on in our last house. I shared that we have hosted birthday parties with plywood floors (we have in this house too!), we’ve hosted Christmas dinner with no window trim or blinds. We’ve hosted friends for dinner in our driveway for goodness sakes… while our kitchen was under renovation. I don’t know why they said yes to that invitation. They must like us- ha! We’ve been ‘the plywood box’ of a house on our street for almost a year now. But this is probably the first time you guys (and Instagram!) are seeing that side of how we live… to get us to the house we dream of.

The other reason I wanted to do this is to show you all the exciting projects we have coming up! It turned into more of a renovation home tour at the end of this post. We won’t be getting to them all this year, or even close to it. But we have a vision for every single space in this house and I can’t wait to share some of that with you! So let’s start with the finished spaces, shall we?

Also… as I’m finishing writing this post- we’ve already made over the fireplace almost completely AND cleared out the laundry room to make it into a paint shelter. Things honestly change daily around here.