Since so many of you enjoyed our previous messy house tours (like the one from our last house in 2011), we thought it was a good time to show that our home isn’t perfectly staged all the time. With most of our attention on the showhouse and some last-minute nursery details, several projects have been paused midstream and a few rooms have slipped into chaos. When the house looks like this, why not share it with the internet?
Quick notes about the video:
- There’s no rapping in this video—both a relief and a minor disappointment.
- I usually avoid narrating and just hold the camera while Sherry talks because I have steadier hands. This time she was busy with showhouse tasks, so I gave it a shot.
- Burger is all over the footage like a helicopter in a music video.
- Don’t worry about the droopy figs in the office — they perk up after a good watering, though they do seem perpetually thirsty.
- If a sabre-toothed tiger married a pony, I would have loved to attend as a kid. I was obsessed with tigers and checked out tiger books from the library every week in elementary school.
- Those hardwood floors make me proud every time we climb the stairs — they really shine.
- For anyone asking about the fourth wall in the nursery: you can see a quick glimpse in the video. It’s currently just a floor lamp and the doorway to the hall, but we might add a playful “wall of fun” like the one in Clara’s room someday.
- You’ll also see some rarely shown footage of the unfinished storage room at the end of the upstairs hallway — unsurprisingly, it’s messy too.
- I briefly shouted “keeping it real” at the end of the video in a moment of 1995-era pop enthusiasm. I edited most of it out, but you’ll catch a hint of that impulse.
If you can’t watch the video at work, the visuals will still tell the story. Below are a few screengrabs highlighting some of the scenes.
If everything goes according to plan, we should have a short window between the Homearama deadline and the baby’s arrival to finish a few projects and restore some order—at least until Barnacle arrives and mixes things up again.
Anyone else living with half-finished projects? Is one stalled task causing clutter to spread through other rooms? We’d love to hear your confessions — surely we’re not the only ones.
Psst – Showhouse deadlines have made this week extra hectic, so there won’t be a post tomorrow. We plan to be back on Monday.