Posts from April 2026

Hey, I'm Elizabeth McElhatten—and if there's one thing you should know about me, it's that houses have always been more than just houses in my world.

For the past 20 years, my husband Nick and I have been renovating homes together. What started as projects and passion slowly became a way of life. We've walked into houses full of potential, taken on projects that felt exciting (and sometimes overwhelming), and learned—sometimes the hard way—what it really takes to turn a house into a home.

Honestly, I should have known this would be our life from the very beginning. Our first home as a married couple was… a fixer-upper. Like, a real one. The kind where when Nick carried me over the threshold, it definitely wasn't into a perfectly finished, picture-perfect house. It was more like, "Welcome home… watch your step." Looking back, it feels pretty fitting—marriage and houses, both a little messy, both a work in progress, and both co...

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