Lily HomeRenovation

07/25/2025

We Stand With You Cambodia
Pray For Cambodia

07/13/2025

My neighbor is a nurse, we don't talk much because our work schedules are so hectic, yesterday I noticed she looked really tired, she came home and left within the hour. I went to mow my grass and saw her grass was high so I mowed hers as well. This morning I saw this.

07/02/2025

Built this with love and a mild paint addiction.

07/02/2025

07/01/2025

My husband wants to paint the crown molding and baseboards black. I say no. But could someone AI a picture of what it would look like. Ty

07/01/2025

Hardwood floor help!
My sweet and amazing middle child was trying to make dessert and spilled a giant container of vegetable oil. This stain is AFTER I have scrubbed and degreased and mopped.
**I have already cleaned!**
What are my options to try and make this not look so awful. Being mindful of cost- currently doing windows and siding on a solo, special needs mama of 3 budget. Floors will likely be summer after next.
I know Murphy’s oil soap is a vegetable oil base, would it be awful if I just polished the rest of the kitchen with oil? I can’t believe I am actually asking this 😬🥹.
Most of the finish is rubbed off already- this is what was under all the tar paper Lino and has been fine for the 20 years I’ve been here- till now.

07/01/2025

Before & After Transformation 🥰

07/01/2025

Please be extremely sensitive in this post, it’s not an easy thing for me to post on because I’m pretty sure you guys are going to come at me so hard.

We have a young child and two rowdy dogs. We hope to have more children and rowdy dogs one day. We have original hardwoods in the living room, dining room, and foyer. Everything else is pieced together flooring from previous owners. I’m having quotes done on getting the floors professionally refinished and then uniform flooring in the other rooms so that the house flows and doesn’t look like a patched quilt.

If we have our floors refinished, it will cost way more….about 40% more than if we got something else installed. We would also have to leave our house for 10 days which is a lot with a child and dogs.

I am NOT doing them myself. That project isn’t for me and I know my limitations.

Should I go with something else on top of them and then one day when our children are out of the house, we take that off and refinish them then? If we move one day, leave them for owners who might be in a better position to refinish them?

We talk about all of these beautiful restoration projects *but* they require TIME and FINANCIALS. I’m not sure I have either of those right now, for something that could potentially get messed up by kids and dogs.

My latest project so I don’t get lost in the old house shuffle. BE RESPECTFUL.

07/01/2025

I love this space for our tree but it feels so empty when it comes down. I have thought about a few vases to fill the area but I’m not a fan.. any ideas are welcome! 🙏
credit respective owner

07/01/2025

I’m waiting for your amazing ideas to finally help me create something legendary in that empty high space at my place, please.

07/01/2025

When my wife was in hospice care, she kept asking me about the old oak tree in our front yard. "Promise me you'll never cut it down," she'd whisper, her voice barely audible. "That's where we carved our initials 30 years ago. That's where you proposed. Promise me it'll always be there."
I promised, not knowing that three months after we lost her, the city would condemn the tree. Root rot, they said. Safety hazard. It had to come down.
I fought them for weeks, but in the end, I had to watch as they cut down the last physical reminder of our love story. I saved every piece of that tree I could, stacking the wood in my garage like I was hoarding memories.
For two years, I couldn't bring myself to touch it. Then one day, scrolling through the Tedooo app where I'd been buying handmade memorial pieces to honor my wife, I saw a post about someone who'd turned their grandfather's barn wood into furniture. Something clicked.
I taught myself woodworking through YouTube videos and late-night practice sessions. Every cut, every curve of that tree became part of this door. The branches that once held our initials now welcome everyone who enters our home.
The glass panel holds river rocks from the stream where we had our first date. When the light hits it just right, those stones look like they're floating, suspended in time like my memories of her.
Now when people ask about the door, I tell them it's made from love. Literally. Every grain of wood holds 30 years of marriage, and every time I walk through it, I feel her presence.
She kept her promise to always be here. And I kept mine to never let that tree truly die.

06/30/2025

When I bought my 1898 Colonial first thing I did was tear up the carpet. This was under the carpet in my front entry hallway.