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The Vanoven Home

Just a couple of first timers finishing the renovation of a 1910 historical home in Brookville, Indiana.

11/15/2023

Tune in tonight at 10 pm EST!! 👏👏

10/09/2023

Ask me if I’ve unpacked from Ireland last week….NOPE 😆

But I found time to get our house spooky 👻

06/24/2023

Absolutely dying over all of the “where are his legs” messages in my DMs 💀

To be honest, I have no clue 😆

05/11/2023

Rotted wood is OUT and brand new dental is IN! 😍

I’ve never been so stoked about wood in my life…I keep walking out front and marvelling at what a huge difference it makes AND so thankful for amazing craftsmen who love breathing new life into old architecture!

05/07/2023

Exterior work days 1 & 2 🥳

Woodwork and soffit repair was first on the to-do list, which included relocating a starling nest before closing up all of the holes! Then it was insulation hole filling and power washing— there is *a lot* of prep that goes into restoring and repainting a 114 year old house with layers of paint all over it!

Nick and Matt spent two days reinforcing our wonky column, and their plan worked…only to get some pretty bad news about the column that has us trying to figure out how to fit an entirely new column into our budget 🫣

04/27/2023

I complain *a lot* about McDonalds ruining my beautiful old Main Street view, buuuut when we’re out of coffee at 7 am (or craving fast food at 12 am after a night of porch sitting) — it sure does come in handy to have a drive thru right across the street 😆

04/17/2023

Even though she stresses me out, I sure do love this house 🥹

04/08/2023

Anyone else with teenagers still color eggs? I had to laugh this year — Nicholas has been loving his new basement gym and spends time boxing with his punching bag every day…you can see the scabs that formed (even with wrapping and wearing boxing gloves!) and the juxtaposition of the boxing scabs on my 16 year old man child next to the glittery pink egg was such a good way to describe being the parent to a teen boy 🥹

This year was hard on me, though — it’s the first time in 19 years I haven’t celebrated Easter with our Brynnie 😭 but she’ll be spending the holiday at her grandparents down in Florida 🐰

04/06/2023

One day closer to getting this old girl of ours looking like it’s 1909– actually scratch that since back then she was Kelly green instead of white 💚😅

But I am giddy to see this project unfold over the next few months— mostly thankful that this time we won’t be dealing with plumbing, electrical, moving walls, HVAC or sleeping in the kitchen 😆

04/04/2023

Spring is just around the corner here in Brookville and Summer won’t be far behind! Porch sitting, parade watching and a whole lot of exterior preservation and restoration will be starting soon! 🙌🏼

03/15/2023

One year ago TODAY we started filming our episode with 🥹

It was the start of the most chaotic five months of our lives — living in an active renovation, with three kids, with filming the whole thing!

I wouldn’t change anything about it — especially the friends made through our amazing crew, love you guys 🫶🏼 Hoping for more shenanigans, group texts, chicken riding and collective Zeus loving in the future 💛

02/27/2023

The theme of 2023 is columns and exterior work 😮‍💨

Meetings alllll week with different craftsmen and contractors and painters and I’m a good mixture of excited and terrified and trying to remember what my dad said — finishing the house is like eating an elephant, one bite at a time — I just wish the bites were a little bit more dainty sized sometimes 😅

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Brookville, IN

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http://www.thevanovenhome.com/

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