The Gritty Reality Renovating Our House on the Eastern Shore

This is the gritty reality---a board about how we are renovating our house on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It's a farmhouse built in 1861, with additions dating to the 1920s and 1970s. I have a fantasy board called Our House on the Eastern Shore which has ideas for our renovation.
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Oven Roasted Five Spice Peking Chicken
A cross between a roasted chicken and peking duck, this recipe is for days when you have that craving for peking duck but chicken is all you have to work with.
Priming the other room that was formerly known as pink. This is the room where Ben and I scraped off the painted wallpaper in the dark one night!
Priming the first room that was formerly known as pink.
Repairing and priming the master bedroom.
Priming the master bedroom.
Looking at the window before the bookcases are put in on the window seat.
Looking from the outside in to the new window in the reading nook room.
Building out what will be a window seat.
After the closet was ripped out---discovering old wallpaper.
Discovering that we can't just sand and restore this floor.
The tile is now down in the bathroom. Hard to believe it was mangy carpet and cheap tiles from the 1950s before.