When our renovations finished, we “moved in” in a matter of hours. In retrospect, I should have waited, photographed the space clean and uncluttered, but oh well. Maybe someday I’ll tidy everything up and photograph it properly, but for now if you’d like to see the work we’ve done there are beautiful professional photographs.

I love this photo more than any professional, tidy photo though. It shows our favorite part of our entire renovation, the windows. Every day, dozens of times a day, we stand at this sink and gaze out over the gently rolling meadow beside the house. The light streams in in the afternoon, and we can’t see anything but nature, and as the grass grows, the leaves fall, and the snow blankets the landscape, we watch it all, still not sure this could be ours.