Our 1913 Tudor Renovation

 

Winnie! Our pup pup, little nug, the sweetest Ty-love. A tiny-Ty, our Winnie-twinnie. Our winner winner chicken dinner. The milk monster! Little milky. The gremlin! Bubbub! Our cherub 👼🏻⁣ ⁣ Winifred Julia Camburn arrived like a little ray of sunshi
An early morning walk always does the trick when things are heavy at home.⁣ ⁣ Our painter discovered a damp spot on the ceiling in the living room which is directly below the 2nd floor bathroom we just had remodeled. We have a plumber coming to take
Last fall was my first time planting daffodil bulbs and I really loved every minute of it this spring! ⁣ ⁣ Enjoying the last of the daffodil magic until next year 🙌🏻⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #daffodils #springgarden #springflowers #mygardenlife #philly #phillyga
Springtime in the garden 🌷⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Beautiful pics taken by @_petercamburn ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #springgarden #springgardening #dewdrop #tulips #tulipseason #macrophotography #philly #mybigdumbhouse
Peter and I are excited to share that we’ll be starting our biggest project yet: parenthood!⁣ ⁣ Baby girl due in early August 🧸⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #21weekspregnant #babygirl #mybigdumbhouse
Spring has sprung! I planted roughly 400 daffodil bulbs last fall and Peter captured my first bloom this week. Love this photo with Miss Tudor and some eerie morning fog lurking in the background 🙋🏼‍♀️ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #springgarden #spring #sprin
Best news guys: the sun won’t set before 7 pm again until September 21st! 🌞⁣ ⁣ Peter took some beautiful pictures of my Japanese Andromeda the other morning. She’s a spring time sensation! ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #pierisjaponica #japaneseandromeda #
Andddddd this is about the time when I start repeating my reno mantra: it has to get worse before it gets better! ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #reno #renovation #sunporch #oldhomes #thisoldhouse #tudor #tudorhome #floorbeams #sisteringbeams #philly #mybigdumbhous
The windows are dirty and the brick may need some repointing, but this old laundry room is slowly transitioning into a thing of glory! Adding a toilet to our first floor will be a game changer and the windows have the best view…my garden! 🌷⁣
My office! What a labor of love…I spent hours meticulously working on that closet. Unsuccessful attempts at stripping the wallpaper, painting and repainting it many times over…hanging shelves (gotta love old homes and their shallow clos
First snow of 2022! Happy New Year!
Happy Thanksgiving from our sunporch! Fortunate for all my connections via this platform, the health of my family and everyday I get to wake up on this earth 🌏⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #mybigdumbhouse
Our Japanese Maple putting on a show in the backyard 🍁🍂🍃⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #japenesemaple #japanesemapletree #fallcolors #fall #philly #mybigdumbhouse
Look at this treasure we found! Peter has been doing a ton of work in the basement the past couple of weeks and found this old whiskey bottle up in one of the rafters! After a quick google search I learned, Andrew Forbes & Co. was a pre-prohi