Saying Goodbye (and a Fun Look Back)

This is the practical path through the project, including the choices that stayed. Hi guys! Just checking in to share the reason behind the blog being so quiet this week – I just returned from a road trip to Cincinnati for the closing of our old house. Monday morning I walked out the door for the last time:

and handed over the key to the new owners! Definitely a bittersweet time for our family but I think that letting go of our old house is going to help us move forward and start putting down deeper roots in CT (and I sure won't miss the 22-hour round trip from CT to Cinci!).

We put a ton of work into the house during the seven years we lived there – some of the preferred transformations were our family room which went from this:

to this:

the house office which went from this:

to this (I was so sad to leave that great bookcase behind!):

our girls' bathroom that went from this:

to this:

and most recently our kitchen which went from this:

to this:

Thanks for indulging me with this little look back Now let's look ahead – The household has got a ton of projects cooking at our current house that The next step is to finish off and share with readers!

Oh, and one last thing – did readers hear that Target has plans to try out an in-store bar in one of their Chicago stores? As if you and I needed another reason to shop at Target…

Want to see more pics from our old and new houses? Look at my house tours {here}!