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April 8, 2019

Crazy thing about this house. It’s the Beck Street House, we bought it, and we moved in.

And if you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you already know us, but if you don’t, let us introduce ourselves. We’re Alan and Laryssa. We’re both twenty-something, engaged, and living in a small town in the middle of nowhere. This is our first time as homeowners, we have a lot to learn, and we are so excited to share our story with you!

This isn’t an episode of House Hunters though. We started this process wayyyyyy back in September 2018 when we not-so-seriously toured another property that was for sale in the area. Afterward, our real estate agent invited us to check out this house. At first, we hesitated, but 30 minutes later we found ourselves standing in our forever house – The Beck Street House.

We have so many stories and ideas to share with you as we make this house our home. So let’s start today – April 8, 2019. We got home from work to find a beefy-sized envelope with our names (and new address!) on it. We opened it to find clipped newspaper articles, old photos, a brochure, and the original deed and mortgage to the house along with a handwritten note from the previous owner’s son.

In his note, he wrote “feel free to keep this information or toss it – our clan will never need them back.” We’ve been talking for a few weeks about doing research about the history of our house, and it seems all too fitting that this package arrived the same day we planned to make our website official. He also wrote, “My mother was absolutely thrilled beyond words that someone like you (young, will make use of the wood shop, and a teacher like herself) was the one to whom she was able to hand the keys to.”

Her family mentioned numerous times that this house was a place of memories, laughter, and good fellowship, and we’re excited to keep these things alive as it’s new owners. So welcome to the Beck Street House, and thanks for joining us we make our first house our forever home.

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Having an [almost] finished dining room is seriously the greatest thing. We’ve been working on this room in some way or another for the past two years we’ve lived here, including some window trim we put up, decided a few minutes later that we hated it, and it sat for almost a year 🥴. We splurged and bought our first real dining room set - a beautiful cherry set from a local furniture company [@gaschofurniture] and it definitely completes the space. We’re so darn excited that it has a leaf too. Still on the to do list is figure out some window treatments and switch out the light for something more our style. Oh, and new flooring someday. And house plants. Definitely more house plants.
Here we go again! We want to blog more this year, and we're kicking off 2021 with a post recapping our 2020 (in a really, really long run-on sentence), sharing our goals for The Beck Street House, along with a list of projects (with sarcastic commentary) we're hoping to cross off the list between now and December 31.
Merry Christmas from the Beck Street House! We are obsessed with this original water color painting of our favorite place on Earth from Laryssa’s sister. It’s perfect; right down to Barkley’s one floppy ear and one stiff ear. Merry Christmas!
Our downstairs bathroom..needs some work. We’re really good at half-assing things when it comes to house projects, and we’re planning to half-ass this project too, but on purpose. New blog post is up talking all about the vibe we’re going for, and what we’re planning to do in the space! Link in the bio! #TheBeckStreetHouse
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Having an [almost] finished dining room is serious Having an [almost] finished dining room is seriously the greatest thing. We’ve been working on this room in some way or another for the past two years we’ve lived here, including some window trim we put up, decided a few minutes later that we hated it, and it sat for almost a year 🥴. We splurged and bought our first real dining room set - a beautiful cherry set from a local furniture company [@gaschofurniture] and it definitely completes the space. We’re so darn excited that it has a leaf too. Still on the to do list is figure out some window treatments and switch out the light for something more our style. Oh, and new flooring someday. And house plants. Definitely more house plants.

#TheBeckStreetHouse
Here we go again! We want to blog more this year, Here we go again! We want to blog more this year, and we're kicking off 2021 with a post recapping our 2020 (in a really, really long run-on sentence), sharing our goals for The Beck Street House, along with a list of projects (with sarcastic commentary) we're hoping to cross off the list between now and December 31.
Take a look for yourself! New blog post is up! Link in bio! #TheBeckStreetHouse
Merry Christmas from the Beck Street House! We are Merry Christmas from the Beck Street House! We are obsessed with this original water color painting of our favorite place on Earth from Laryssa’s sister. It’s perfect; right down to Barkley’s one floppy ear and one stiff ear. Merry Christmas! 

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Our downstairs bathroom..needs some work. We’re Our downstairs bathroom..needs some work. We’re really good at half-assing things when it comes to house projects, and we’re planning to half-ass this project too, but on purpose. New blog post is up talking all about the vibe we’re going for, and what we’re planning to do in the space! Link in the bio! #TheBeckStreetHouse
This is by far the best COVID purchase we’ve mad This is by far the best COVID purchase we’ve made so far! Check out our new blog post about our new back yard patio, including a ton of before and after pictures of our new backyard haven! Link in the bio! #TheBeckStreetHouse
We gotta hot date with this color this weekend. [ We gotta hot date with this color this weekend.

[PS: @joannagaines, we think you got the name wrong; we think Kraft Macaroni and Cheese is more fitting. Which, as a result, inspired us to make mac and cheese for dinner.]

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