One of the questions I’ve been getting a lot on social media is, “Can you share the floor plan of the school?” so I’ve been working on putting together this post! The floor plan was something that we started working on right after we purchased Union Joint back in August of 2021, and it was a serious puzzle to figure out how to turn an old municipal building…
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FINALLY I finished editing another little Youtube episode on our progress since January! Between packing up the Philly house and taking care of two little peanuts, this video was edited over some late nights. Though it can feel like it’s taking ages, it’s so nice to look back at some of the older episodes to see that things are actually plugging along! If you want to get an…
Since we bought our schoolhouse in August of 2021, one of the most fun things we’ve been doing on the side is making fake uniforms, toddler letter jackets, athletic gear, crests, and other swag for it. It’s a completely ridiculous task, for sure, but it’s one of the things that has helped me pass the time as we are living in another city waiting for the professionals to…
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…