Transitions

We began our journey about 8 years ago in a little cottage home in Lexington, KY. I created a blog so that our family and friends could share in the journey with my husband and I to turn our first house into a true home. The blog I had, Cottage 38 North, feels like a lifetime ago now. It actually took me several minutes of searching to even remember how to get to it.
I’m honestly a terrible blogger in terms of keeping a schedule and even taking progress pictures of projects. However, I find it therapeutic to share our adventures and so I begin again.

It profiled some of our DIY projects in that first house and then our subsequent adventure of moving to Alabama. We had a home built in a great neighborhood there, which is also home to one of my favorite bloggers, Layla of The Lettered Cottage. We eventually moved back to Lexington, KY and bought a 1960s ranch that we completely renovated. It has served us well for the last five years, but our now family of five has outgrown it and we have decided to move on.

This site was born out of my inability to find information online for DIY projects for those Gen Z homes…otherwise known as the homes built from 1995 – 2010. I have no idea how to turn this type of home into something warm and inviting, but I’m going to give it my best shot.