Finally got another YouTube episode edited and live on the progress we’ve made in the last year! Between moving to a new city, having a second baby in October, and all the demands of a full-time job… It took me a while to edit this from 4am-6am on random mornings. This process is intense and stressful but also very VERY excited about moving back home. I’ve also embedded…
When we were home a few months ago for Sean’s sister’s wedding, we wanted to see if we could go inside our old elementary school, Hopewell, to get some design inspiration for the schoolhouse renovations. I reached out to the folks at Heritage Baptist College and they were kind enough to give us an afternoon tour! When we entered, it was so wild to see so many familiar…
It’s a little crazy to look at all of the progress that’s been made since we first bought the schoolhouse in August. In addition to video tour updates, I wanted to have a spot to capture the progress of the schoolhouse renovations in photo form because it can be a bit tricky to visualize everything just on our Instagram. Below I’ve divided the sections of the school into…
When Sean and I went to the Johnson County Museum of History a few weeks back, we had the goal of finding 1) as much information about Union Joint as possible and 2) find any history of other schools in the county so that we could use them as inspiration. As two Hopewell Elementary alums, and as someone who grew up in Hopewell Church, we were also super…
A couple weeks ago we filmed a tour of the school to show the renovation progress so far. (Next time I’ll try to get my dad to join the commentary and it will make for a much funnier tour, but this time you’re stuck with just me and my iPhone. :)) We’ve already made a lot of progress since this was filmed with Robert Wilson and his amazing…
Whenever we talked about our future home, we always knew we wanted to find a home with a story. We never expected we’d be lucky enough to find something with as much of a story as Union Joint Graded School No. 9. Union Joint was built in the early 1900s to serve children from the farthest corners of two neighboring townships, Nineveh and Franklin. The thinking was that…
A big life update from our little family- Sean and I bought a schoolhouse in Franklin! We feel so lucky that the Indiana town we both grew up in has thrived in the 10 years since we’ve been gone. We always planned on moving back to the Midwest, but after Arlo was born, the Midwest narrowed to Franklin. The place where we grew up, met, fell in love…