I really appreciate how you showed how much time it takes to get a house to where you really want it, especially an older home. It's better for financial and mental health to take your time with renovating a home, even if we feel so much pressure to make everything Instagram ready as fast as possible. Thank you so much for that reminder and being so real!
Megan, it doesn't matter if you haven't renovated your entire house, it is very clear that you have turned it into a fantastic home for yourself and your beautiful family.
Megan - you are adorable. So wise for your young years. I’m 72, mother to 7 wonderful children and grandmother to 18 ( so far) so I think my opinion should count.
Julie, I could have written you reply... I am the mother of 9 (8 sons, 1 daughter....no she is the middle child).. grandmother of 18 (so far)!! Have a blessed day!
Bedroom FIRST! The way you talked about redoing it, I feel that would bring you the most joy right now. Then Master bath, then back porch. Thank you for sharing!! ❤️
I love your living room and kitchen so much!!!!!! And the sunroom!!! Your home is beautiful!!! PS - please let Josh keep his ice machine where it is. It is easy access there and it is his house, too. The garage isn't a good spot because that gets too hot and it is not good to have a freezer or ice maker in a hot environment.
That was quite of a show of before and after. i thoroughly enjoyed it very much. I was smiling throughout. Such a beautiful home and you guys are amazing and wonderful people sharing your lives with us. It is much appreciated.
I had five kids and at time had grandkids living with us I would have been in Heaven having that much room especially all the closets, you are doing a great job n fixing it up.
This was fun! I love that you kept the built-ins, the natural wood paneling in the sunporch and the BLUE TOILET, lol. I’d keep that toilet as long as possible because of the soothing color and it’s unique-ness factor 😁. Your kitchen looks amazing too along with all the other changes. I think you’re very smart for,not committing to anything for the kid’s rooms or the basement. Especially the basement. That space has many many many changes in it’s future, lol. I had to laugh at the prospect of rollerblading down there because why not? I’ll be looking forward to next year’s comparison ;). Thanks for sharing!
This year, we did so many projects to our house (thank you Covid). Ripped out all of the carpet and put in new laminate flooring. Double vanity in the bathroom, new paint throughout the house. Just finished my kitchen, I replaced the cabinet doors and drawer fronts, new hardware and new countertops. My house is now exactly how I want it, and I love being home!
Always impressed with your joy and enthusiasm and grateful heart. Your home is loved and each refurbish shows your talent and devotion for your family. Your husband is a treasure. Bless all four of you.
You are so right that it’s never all done at once. We have been in our home 15 years and we still have things to do! But our home is cozy and it’s ours. Besides when you own a home there are always projects!
Watching this shows you how far you have come! It is not easy doing much on a day to day basis when you have such young children. Your home is beautiful and it looks like you will never outgrow it. Your kitchen looks unbelievable now. Well done on all the progress you have made.
Yes! Do your master bedroom next. I definitely suggest getting a King size bed! My husband and I just got one last year and we are not large people but it is soooo more comfortable than a Queen size, and suits the scale of a large bedroom better. Love your channel, thank you! From another Christian mom of 2 kiddos
I think you are so sweet. We have lived in our home for 33 years and we are still and forever working on it, lol. The next project I think for you guys is to fill that beautiful big home with kids! You are the perfect couple and your home is so full of love. I appreciate the way you spend time teaching your kids, (our daughter in law is a teacher too) and that is the most important thing! God bless this beautiful family 🥰
It does take time and money. You're fortunate your hubby is a talented carpenter and construction expert, that will save cost for sure. What you've done is awesome. You have an enormous house! TFS!
Great advice (to live in a house before you change...) Your living room looks WONDERFUL! We tore out the carpet in the basement so the kids could rollerblade. Now they are older and don't rollerblade anymore, (it has more to do with not spending a fortune on rollerblades then on them not wanting to) so we could put something down again. It was a great thing and they got energy out on the yucky winter days. Our carpet was a burnt orange color, so it was okay that it went bye bye. I remember chuckling over the blue toilet (because we had one, too) but alas, we've got a new white one when we did a freshen up on our main bathroom.
Great start - especially the kitchen makeover. I hope you paint the trim around the doors, windows and baseboards a nice white. You'll probably be tackling home improvement projects for many years!!!
Megan keeping it real! 💕 Someone else mentioned moving your couches toward the rug, and off the walls. If you do that I think you will find it better for conversation and the room will actually seem bigger.
Renovating and remodeling takes time! My husband and I bought our home 4 years ago. We completely gutted it and added on. It's not finished yet and it has it's little quirks that will always be there, but we have enjoyed the learning experience and the process of making it ours.💜 I have to say.... I'm so happy you didn't tear those built-ins out in the livingroom!😂 God bless your family and God bless your home!💜
Be grateful for all your closet and storage space. We have no storage space at all other than a few small closets, and I'm just sitting here wishing for just ONE big closet. ☺️
Great tour.... 🥰 Its so nice to see gradual changes in homes, I never understood how someone can move into a new property & renovate immediately! You need to live somewhere to “get a feel for it” 😂
I never realized the enormity of your home! You kitchen backsplash looks totally different now with all the cabinet changes. Love the house, love your yard! Great work!
Excellent advice to actually live in your house for a while before deciding what to change. I wasn't crazy in love with the brick fireplace at first either BUT after you painted the built-ins white--it looks fabulous and gives it interest. I really like your mantel picture arrangement. It's a wonderful house with lots of room for your family!
loved, LOVED, loved this video! I love how practical you are in real life! the editing was awesome to a T. Can't wait to see what you do next(hopefully master suite😉 Ha!😆) We're building a 5,000 sq.ft. house for our large family of 10 while temporarily living in a finished-out shop. So our lives are super crazy right now🤨! I can totally relate to your lifestyle of 'construction & destruction' even though ours is in the front yard😫 keep staying positive-God is still good!
omg that sun porch is a dream!! i love the natural wood as well and OMG those end tables in your daughters room, i want that for my room lol! it would be cute if you had another daughter and they shared that big room. You could have matching bed frames and just similar colors but unique to them so it's not exactly the same. those beds fit so well in that intent in the wall between the bump out.
Megan, I love how real you are! Even doing the work yourselves it all still takes money! We are working on our house too, November will be 5 years we've lived here. I am glad I waited though because like you said it helps to picture what you want before you tear into it. Love the progress you've made so far!
I think what you've done is beautiful and very wise to live in it first and take your time. The home is classic and you are doing a wonderful job with it.
Love the blue toilet. Glad you kept it. Sure would put a smile on the faces of those entering that room. And the decor in there fits well with it. You've done an amazing amount of work on your home in 1 year, especially for the low costings that you stated. It all takes time. Looking forward to the 2 year transformation video. :: Your next project should be the master suite. Do the bathroom/closet transformation first, but make sure you also finish the bedroom. You've done the kitchen, where you spend much of your day. Now do your nighttime space, before tackling anything else. You need a relaxing beautiful space to rest in.
I painted my wood walls a white wash and it’s beautiful. The wood still shows through. Mine was an inside room. Since yours has so many windows and being a sunroom I’m happy you left it as is.
You and Josh have a BEAUTIFUL HOME! You have made great improvements already! Now is the time to enjoy each other and your beautiful children. Just choose one area per year to work on and don’t ever choose a spotless home over memories you could be making when you were just picking up what you call a mess....I did not see a mess anywhere. Some clutter shows the kids are having fun and learning. God gave you a daughter first and she is learning your good housekeeping skills. She will be a great little helper. (I’ll bet she is already)! Your son will be handing tools to his daddy during the project processes! I’m so glad you didn’t paint that gorgeous sun room! Nor the fireplace! I love the beautiful white buildings on each side of the fireplace! Just what was needed there! Your apartment is a small goldmine! A renter is the way to go with that. You have and ARE making wise decisions. Slow and steady wins the race!
Those bedrooms are HUGE!! You’re very blessed!! Your home is beautiful and y’all have done an amazing job, especially in such a short amount of time. Congratulations!
You motivate me! My husband and I have been talking about painting for about 6 years now! I am unskilled, and he is slow to make decisions. Together, we accomplish little. Lol
You have done sooo much in 1 year. And, you should be proud. We have been in our home 30 years and we still have lots we would like to do. Time we now have but money is not. We are happy and so it makes do.
Just found your channel so not sure if this is a recent video. My recommendation is to tackle your master bedroom and bathroom. Your marriage is the foundation of your family so putting yourself next would be a good choice in my opinion. Not sure what season it is so that could be a winter project and if it is spring/early summer doing the patio so you can use it in a more functional way might be the wisest choice. My third focus would be to put in new backsplash in the kitchen .... seems like an easy fix to bring your kitchen up a notch. Enjoy your hardworking and practical attitude, so your decisions will be the best for your family and budget. Love that you do not feel like you ‘need’ everything at once like some young parents.
I think it's a bit ironic that you and your husband are cramped in that office, when you have a huge unused bedroom upstairs! Make it your sewing room for now, or his office :D :D
Oh, a nice big home! The basement is so nice for the kids to go play in (especially when they are bigger and louder)! And the storage!!! Ooh lala!! I love the improvements you have made. Especially that gray wall in your living room! Amazing!! Josh, you did well! Can't wait to see the headboard he comes up with!
I started watching your videos right before y’all moved last year and I remember being sad bc I thought your old kitchen with the striped wall was the cutest thing!! But I have loved watching you transform this house! Excited for more to come
Wow!!! So much space! We have a 1970's house in SoCal. We have been remodeling it slowly. We are currently remodeling our home office but it's so small. It's probably the sz of your bedroom closet! Cal, space is hard to come by.... Loved it when we lived in midwest, houses are so huge!
Randomly found your channel! Excited for the content. I’ve never heard of Mennonite culture before but I love to learn! You radiate so much positivity and I think that is what attracted me to your video! I am in desperate need of more positivity in my life and learning to see things in a happier way. Excited to see more of your videos and learn from you! Thank you! God bless you!
What a very nice comment! I knew some things about the Mennonite culture, but like you, got hooked on this channel because I enjoyed the positive vibe so much. It's a real breath of much needed fresh air.
Yes! And there are definitely upsides and downsides to a large house. One being it's never 100% clean. Have fun with your move! So much work but so exciting!
we bought our house the first year we were married and were planning on flipping it. 25 years later we are constantly putting love into our 115 year old house! There is always a fun project on our to do list and our babies are slowly leaving us. Enjoy all the precious moments a clean house is over rated!
You guys have done a wonderful job. It takes time. Wishing you many years and many blessings in your beautiful home. Have a blessed day. Love to all of you. 🙏❤
I loved seeing the transformations/renovations that you have already completed in only a year! Way to go! As dreaming of a totally cleaned up home...keep on dreaming! My second of 3 children has just moved out, we have a 17 year old at home. My house is still only cleaned up for a short time, usually for a day after all the vacuuming/dusting/cleaning has been done for the weekend.
Megan- you did a fantastic job showing us before/ after video of your home! By the way, I love your laugh! It is the cutest laugh I've ever heard! I had to tell you, as I've been thinking that in all your videos. And, yes, God is good all the time!!!! God bless!!!
Love your take on things. I live in a older fixer upper house too. I have a million ideas i want to do but here lately ive been feeling also like i need to relax and be more satisfied with what we have been blessed with 😊
Looks so good. Just a thought here... how many ppl would be happy with just the house before??? Makes me think Should we be more happy with the things we have!
Yes, being happy and thankful for the things God has given us is so important, but being good stewards of those things is also important. Remodeling can add years to the life of the home that God has provided.
I can’t believe it’s been a year already! I remember watching the original house tour. Thank you for all your wonderful content. My husband and I just bought a house and we are in love with it, but there are a lot of aspects that aren’t perfect and are going to take time to change. You always talk so positive about how things don’t have to be perfect and things take time in a house. Thank you! It is so easy to get lost in the feeling that everything needs to be Pinterest perfect. We live here after all right!? And with kids, impossible. Also, I have been doing my hair in the twisty updo that you showed the other day. It makes me feel so fancy and put together when really that’s so far from it!
It's fun going room by room redoing a house! We've been in our current house 8 years this summer and it's a slow but steady process! but it's amazing what even just a paint job can do! Watching this was fun! I noticed one of the bathrooms you removed the shower doors but not the frame on the tub. If your thinking you will not put the doors back on you can remove the frame and fill the screw holes in the tub surround with caulk! It's a fast easy improvement we did!
Very nice tranformation in your rooms. Megan, you can bring your sofas away from the wall and window. Bring them out till the front legs are on the rug, the back legs can be on the hard flooring. That will anchor your sofas. 😊
I think I love the den the most. Now that you have painted the built-ins the fireplace looks great. I need a Josh. You have a great BIG home to fix to suit your family.
I love the updates to your kitchen and wall! And the sun porch is amazing! I bet you could just switch the toy room and the office area. Then you could have a nice large office and that smaller room is still plenty big enough for a play area.
Beautiful, Megan. Remembering when my husband and I bought our little farmhouse....so much work to do but I loved it the minute I saw it. My husband did so much work/love to it......he put cedar in the closets....redid floors....built all the doors....did tiling.....shingling.....and also built furniture. The memories are priceless and everyone who sees and knows our home sees love. Just take your time in thinking how you want things and make memories.
@@jrinman81 it might be hard to believe but I still do not have a 'smart phone' so no Instagram. I think next month I will be finally getting one (I have an old flip phone) I would love to have an Instagram page....proud of the work my husband did. I am on FB, though...
I haven’t done twitter or instagram or Facebook or whatever. I have a smart phone and I text, email and shop and RU-vid. That’s enough for me for the time being.
Loved this! Our house exchanged (UK term?) 16th July last year and we moved in 6th August last year. It’s a small house, not 100% dated but not complete to taste. There were a couple things that needed doing before moving in, the rest we are slowly working out way through. The bits that aren’t completely my taste I’ve still worked on making them feel as homely as possibly. As much as I love aesthetics the feeling of home is what’s most important to me🥰 have been in a bit of a lull with lockdown, but feeling inspired now!
Love what you’ve done with the place so far! I think I’d have to say that the sunroom would be my favorite part of the whole house and if we ever built a house that I would definitely want a sun room! With lots and lots of plants😀
I love everything you have done! I almost cried though when you said you were going to rip out the built-ins LOL. I had those in my old house and I miss them so much. Now I have two huge stone fireplaces. One upstairs and one downstairs and absolutely love them. We bought a house similar to yours and a somewhat a fixer-upper, but only 3000 ft. It took me an entire year to paint 90% of the house by myself. I got rid of all my wood trim and it is now white but I will confess some of the closet doors on the inside were never painted. It’s been 10 years now and if I ever sell that is one project that will have to get done! My house was also done on a budget with lots of yard sale finds. Hugs
