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Tim is making awesome headway with the bathroom this weekend. My help includes: cooking, cleaning, running to Home Depot, keeping the kids happy and not overly “helpful” to daddy 😉 If I can keep everything smooth, he can work fast … Continue reading →

Well, the heat about took us out! When we hit triple digits, Tim goes MIA to handle the commercial accounts he has! So, I close the doors to the demo and just think about the progress ahead =) So, one … Continue reading →

I had to have one, just ONE room kind of normal. There is something mentally helpful about one room of the house not really needing anything while you are doing a live-in renovation! The family room was the perfect candidate. … Continue reading →

I have to admit, my favorite part is doing the shopping! We are about to gut the teal bathroom. The sub floor is rotted out, black mold in the vanity, the grout is the grossest thing going…. need I go … Continue reading →

That’s really the only word I can use to describe our first 2 weeks here. We have been cleaning, ripping out, cleaning, and figuring out what to rip out next. It has taken us some time to get a game … Continue reading →

The first week in a renovation has always been full of surprises for us. And not good surprises. “Murphy”, the 3 ft. long rat is what greeted us the first week at Nellie Mae. A rat this time? No. Even … Continue reading →

Nellie Mae got a deck. Merry Christmas and happy new year, Nellie Mae. I can’t believe it, but we are down to 1 project left. Re-roofing. We have actually almost successfully flipped a house. May will be 2 years. Unbelievable, … Continue reading →

It has been one year at Nellie Mae, whew!! As of today, we had over 20,000 visitors to our site! We have both really spent the past 12 months figuring out how to simplify. And we finally accomplished our goal!! … Continue reading →

One of the first things I wanted to do at this house was have a garden! The renter that lived here for 40 years had one every year. So, it was perfectly prepared for us to use.  It is also … Continue reading →

Nellie-Mae had some dead trees that needed immediate attention! We had kind of overlooked them until 2 weeks ago when one dropped a 25 ft long dead branch across the yard 5 minutes before going out to play (Thank you … Continue reading →