Beyond the Noyes

Beyond the Noyes A page to track our progress on the Noyes house!

Not a "house project" per se, but we also installed the first hive of bees yesterday and I just had to share! 😍🐝🍯
05/04/2025

Not a "house project" per se, but we also installed the first hive of bees yesterday and I just had to share! 😍🐝🍯

Our "projects" are now small enough that we can complete one in a single weekend! We finally transformed this (the large...
05/04/2025

Our "projects" are now small enough that we can complete one in a single weekend! We finally transformed this (the largest 🥳) flower bed into something that actually resembles a flower bed. There's plenty more room for flowers and plants, but we did get some new lilies from Hillsdale Lily Garden and of course some flowers from The Blooming Barn to get us started.

We've been busy this spring cleaning up the woods and getting some larger things planted, but also just enjoying all tha...
04/29/2025

We've been busy this spring cleaning up the woods and getting some larger things planted, but also just enjoying all that we've done so far. 😊

My phone told me I took this first photo one year ago, so I walked into the living room to take an updated shot. 🥰We too...
03/29/2025

My phone told me I took this first photo one year ago, so I walked into the living room to take an updated shot. 🥰

We took most of the winter off to just relax and enjoy the house, but we've been back at it with some yard cleanup and remaining house projects these past few weeks. I'll probably start posting more often now that we're making progress again!

11/12/2024

We still have plenty of work to do around here and I will continue to post our progress. But for now, here's a tour of the main story of the house today with a throwback to the same rooms last October.

After 16 months, I am thrilled to share that the main story of the house is finally fully functional! 🙌The gorgeous buil...
11/11/2024

After 16 months, I am thrilled to share that the main story of the house is finally fully functional! 🙌

The gorgeous built-in cabinets, pocket doors, wood floors, and natural light in these rooms really sold us on the house, and today we can finally enjoy and appreciate these features! 😍 Here's some pictures from day 1 through the chaos of home renovations to today.

When we tore out the kitchen floors last year, we found a layer of local 1940's newspapers pasted to the subfloors. I th...
11/02/2024

When we tore out the kitchen floors last year, we found a layer of local 1940's newspapers pasted to the subfloors. I think I finally figured out how to incorporate that history back into the home! ❤️

I am so happy with how well the original wood floors on the main story cleaned up! ✨(I couldn't even wait to wipe down t...
10/29/2024

I am so happy with how well the original wood floors on the main story cleaned up! ✨
(I couldn't even wait to wipe down the trim before taking these pictures to see the before and after shots!)
Huge kudos to Joe on this project - he spent many, many hours sanding over the past couple of weeks.
We should be able to move into these rooms this weekend! 😍 🥳

10/20/2024

And while I was working in the basement today, Joe got started sanding down the floors in the main story! Refinishing these floors is the last thing standing between us and a finish living/dining room. 😍😍

10/20/2024

Do y'all remember on New Year's Day when I said my only goal for the year was removing all of the wallpaper from the house...? Well today was that day! 🥳 And removing the wallpaper from this particular room was even kinda fun, it went so quick!

Now we have a problem.. There are 10 separate spaces down in the basement and we've been calling this one the Golf Room, for obvious reasons, when mentioning where a specific tool or box is located. (We're still only halfway unpacked because, well, we only have half of the house finished!) So.. what are we going to call it now?!

Our other totally official basement room names, in case you're curious:
The Purple Bathroom
The Laundry Room
The Orange Tanning Bed Room
The Room That Had That Old Mattress
The Hallway Area
The Utility Room
The Ping Pong Table Room
The Canning Room
The Coal Room (or, as I call it: Elmo's Room)

We have a completed laundry room! 😍Fresh paint, new ceiling tiles, new light fixtures, add flooring and trim - done! Eas...
10/13/2024

We have a completed laundry room! 😍

Fresh paint, new ceiling tiles, new light fixtures, add flooring and trim - done! Easiest room yet!

(Home renovation hack: if you have ugly, unfinished rooms that are low on your priority list, just hang curtains over their doorways and you can pretend they don't exist. 🤣)

While I was searching for old pictures of the dining room to post, I scrolled past some of these snapshots from 1 year a...
10/11/2024

While I was searching for old pictures of the dining room to post, I scrolled past some of these snapshots from 1 year ago... Sometimes I wouldn't believe what we've accomplished myself if we didn't have these pictures to look back on! We can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel! 🤍

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