Lena Almeida is a work-at-home-mom of two feisty boys, a writer, social media strategist and a self-described shopaholic. Lena frequently shares home renovation projects and lessons she learned along the way on her blog
Our “starter” home is more than 10 years old. We’ve put our heart and soul (and wallet) into making it a dream house, continually adding enhancements and upgrades, room by room. In the beginning, we renovated to make it more liveable.
Today, we renovate to make it more desirable to potential buyers. Yes, we are selling our home.
It took a long time to come to this decision. We had a few false starts because every time we came close to making a move, we simply upgraded our home and fell in love with it again. We started out small by adding a backsplash to our kitchen and swapping out the builder’s lighting for our own. Then, we finished the basement, our biggest renovation to date. And for the next few years, conversations in our household went something like this: