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Ashley’s restoring her historic home at a snail’s pace in California. She shares home improvement DIYs, tips for sustainable living, and renovation stories - all while aiming to add more color and present real, lived-in, family friendly spaces.

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I'm Ashley, a deeply systematic homebody restoring my 1915 Craftsman bungalow in California, slowly and on purpose. I don't make a single decision without first opening 100 tabs. Renovation, DIY, color, and what it actually looks like to live in an old house with two young kids.

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A few weekends ago we went to a children’s kite festival and I’m still thinking about it. No spectacle, no costumed characters. Just families in a sunny field gathering to celebrate wind. When kites got tangled, people meant it when they

Some of you have been here since I started documenting this house in 2014. Some of you found me last week. Either way, hi. I’m Ashley. I’m a chronic researcher with a goal of wallpapering her whole house, who repeats outfits on purpose, a

The move that made everything else in this garage conversion work: adding walls. One 7.5 foot wall gave them 15 feet of cabinetry on either side. Two new walls carved out a laundry room and office in the corner without touching the footprint. It&rsqu

I finally started a (free!) Substack,. It's the same content you already know from me, mostly, with a little more short-form writing in between the big stuff. A sweet spot between a thousand-word blog post and a caption like this.
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