Welcome- Introduction

Hi everyone!

Happy Monday. It is cold and flurries of snow are lingering around. Anyway- thanks for visiting our blog. This is an exciting (and a little scary) new adventure for us. Meet the couple behind “Our Wooden Nest”.

Geoff and I(Andrea) met back in 2005. We went to rival high schools and secretly had a crush on each other. We ended up having a mutual friend that introduced us and the rest is history. Fast forward 7 years and we married on December 30, 2012, 2 months before Geoff deployed to Kuwait. Geoff is in the Army and I work in HR for a defense contractor. We have two dogs and a cat and plan to add a tiny human to our family in God’s timing. Our DIY projects and designing is a good distraction from our fertility issues.

We bought our first home in Colorado Springs about 5 months after we got married and I moved all of our belongings from Ohio to Colorado Springs with my awesome entourage. We ended up purchasing a short sale home that needed a little TLC. As a young, newly married couple, we didn’t have a lot of funds to make huge renovations at the cost of a contractor, so we had to get creative.  Thus, began our love for DIY projects.

After two years of DIY projects and bathroom, kitchen, yard, etc. renovations, we sold our short sale house. The housing market in Colorado Springs is on fire right now. And by that, I mean we received a full price offer after our first showing and that was that. We decided we wanted to buy a new build and although it was new construction our options with our builder were limited. It’s what you could refer to as a track home- only one paint choice, and a few tile, carpet, cabinet choices. We had done a lot of research and checked out all (reasonably priced) builders in the area. We feel pretty confident in our level of skill at this point and chose to go with a less customizable home for a much smaller price tag. We chose a lot of the builder grade options to keep our mortgage reasonable and will update as time and finances permit.

I’m sure you all have heard the phrase “Champagne taste on a beer budget”? That phrase rings true to our life.  We love the look of expensive home designs but let’s be honest- we can’t afford all of that. Our home is our oasis, the one place we love to be the most (I admit, we are homebodies), so we want it to be “perfect”. We have a mixed style of farmhouse chic, industrial and rustic. Our color pallet really isn’t a color pallet at all. Mostly neutrals- greys, whites (lots of whites) and beige/cream/tans. Lots and lots of natural wood furniture. Basically, if you love the show “Fixer Upper” on HGTV, you’ll love our style.

The point of this blog is to share our DIY tutorials and design tips with other people that want a designer look on a budget. We hope we can help others turn their house into their dream home, one DIY project at a time.

Thanks for reading. Stay tuned for an industrial bench DIY later this week. It is seriously the easiest and quickest DIY we have ever done. And it has a $250+ retail price tag, but we will show you how to build it for MUCH less.