Jodi Kwiatkowski McComb

02/12/2025

Before and after of the half bathroom over the years. How funny that it was originally purple?
I had forgotten that there was carpet in the bathroom when I bought the house. How gross. What is going with people who do that? I will never understand! Sick sick sick 🤢
That toilet failing was the best thing that happened to that room if you ask me.

12/19/2024

Ok…ok…enough with the drama. I just can’t seem to get this room right. I feel like I am finally getting some momentum now and things are falling into place.I am all about bringing in more characters and charm into my old 1900 home. I spend a lot of time in this room and want to enjoy every moment of it. So this space is particularly important to me.
I am STILL on the hunt for a new chandelier and I don’t want to settle for anything less than spectacular…so that is why it has taken me so long! I found one a few weeks ago on fb marketplace and the rude a$$ witch never replied to my messages and still has the post up. What is that all about? I can’t stand people!!! How annoying 😑 Why list something if you do not really want to sell it? Just for kicks? To toy with people’s emotions? Who has had a similar experience with Facebook marketplace?

09/29/2024

03/20/2024

I was going to post this to stories but it ended up defaulting to a post and then I was like why not? It will be interesting to have this on my feed.
So…these are before and after photos of what the Village of Kinderhook did yesterday.
I’m have pretty mixed feelings about losing the trees. Just an FYI, these are not my trees. They are in the Village right of way and were probably planted by the town decades ago and were obviously never maintained. Therefore, they grew to an enormous size, into the utility lines, causing several electric outages (4 just this year on our street) and also damaging the adjacent sidewalk.
Maintenance wise, they were a pain in the butt for me…they drop acorns like crazy, shed leaves twice a year and I can’t grow any landscaping in the front of my house except moss because of the enormous amount of shade that they cast.
Well, there’s the bad stuff.
The good stuff was that they were really PRETTY and I enjoyed the shade regardless of the moss 😆. They also helped disguise those ugly power lines. Now I’m bald over here!
The Village will be putting in a new municipal water main system, along with a new road and new sidewalks. Sometimes you have to let go of things that do not work in order to get improvements. The town is offering to replant the trees. It will not be the same oak trees thankfully but something that will not interfere in the new infrastructure. I have some time to think about it but I’m not sure yet. What would you do? I worry about them getting too big again? Who is in charge of maintenance? I don’t have the answers yet

10/13/2023

The evolution of the great room windows…
From the original camp 🥹
to today!
We have come so far the past few years by ourselves just working every single weekend!
I cannot wait to see what this sweet A-frame will bring us next ❤️

08/28/2023

Photo dump of last weekend when we FINALLY installed the steel stairs has been tirelessly working on for weeks!
The wood treads are just temporary lumber until our newly cut Ash treads from are dried and ready to be permanently installed

They look better than I ever imagined.
Drop your questions below 👇

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07/11/2023

A good old transformation Tuesday, before and after kitchen edition 🥰
I am still amazed at how cool we made this kitchen look

06/28/2023

Stair inspiration for the

We have had temporary stairs for the house for years because we have been holding out for the opportunity to have open or floating stairs in the house.
I had no idea how complicated and expensive this route was going to be.
First of all, I can’t even tell you how many stair fabricators have literally never even responded to my online inquiries or emails. I’m not sure how they are in business.
The businesses that DO respond, are projecting out 9 months and are pricing around 90K for basic straight stairs and no, that does NOT include installation!
So, here we are again. Doing things ourselves with the help of our friends.
Rick has been working on the stair platform and supports this week. Cross your fingers that we can get the stair platform complete and maybe hang it this weekend! 🙏

Inspiration photo by Mylen Stairs