Berryville: Year 2

It's been two years since we moved into our Berryville house on April 17, 2013. It's hard to believe how much time has passed since we started over in a new town, and it's still hard to believe how much we've done to change this cute little house to make it ours. As predicted, Year 2 was much less productive than Year 1, as far as the house goes anyway. JT spent a lot of the summer in Florida for work, and then we spent a month recovering from his accident, and then we gave birth to Charlotte, and then JT signed up for one of his last online classes. All of those things took up a lot of time and some of the things we were able to get done this year cost quite a lot of money. So the list is shorter, but it was still a good year. We've been talking for a couple months now about what we want to get done over the course of this next year, and even though it's just a couple of things they will make huge impacts both visually and functionally. I'm excited to see what next year's post will say.

I've blogged about a lot of things we've done in and around the house over the last year, but as is tradition now, I'm going to use the anniversary of moving in to summarize and list all the projects we accomplished over the last year (generally in chronological order).

• switched to homemade laundry detergent
• replaced the shed
• fixed the trench for the sump pump overflow in the front yard (short term fix)
• completed many projects in the nursery, such as painting the furniture, making a lamp, making various art projects for the walls, making the mobile, etc.
• updated the organization and function of the pantry storage
• primed and repainted the walls of the laundry room
• painted the new entryway bench
• planted flowers in the deck's built-in flower boxes
• power washed the deck
• painted the entire deck
• made and hung a coat rack in the new entryway
• had the HVAC system repaired
• built a small storage box for the trash cans
• hung more pictures on the family room gallery wall
• gave the dining room a small facelift 
• installed a wood burning stove in the basement
• painted the ceiling and walls of the basement
• built new storage shelves for the basement
• organized all of our extra stuff in the basement on the new shelves
• insulated all holes and gaps throughout the basement
• hung a drying rack in the laundry room
• organized the medicine cabinet in the master bathroom

Here's to Year 3 in this house we've made our home.