Befores and Afters: Renovations of Each Room (with Sources and Totals)
I thought I’d show you around our place. Well, some of the photos are from some time ago, but not much has changed. The rooms have a new shade of paint, new doors, new trim, and new lighting. Both bathrooms, … Continue reading
Bathroom Before and After
I had a long post written with lots of words describing the bathroom reno. I talked about how it is our second bathroom project in 3 months (the first being the basement bathroom overhaul) and somewhat about how we got it … Continue reading
Kitchen Plans
*This post decided to post itself through Polyvore so I tossed in an explanation shorter than I had planned for this kitchen topic. First, I want to know your thoughts about backsplash tile. Hence the 6 options. Which do you … Continue reading
Basement Bathroom Reveal
I’m coming to you with an actual completely finished room of the house-the basement bathroom (okay minus the door and touch ups to the trim). Greg and I started on it, with some help from family, in May. Weekends, weekday … Continue reading
The Bathroom, a New Hairstyle, a Bench and Some Other Stuff
Intriguing title, huh? Yeah I could stand to work on those. Anyway, let me catch you up with some photos floating around my photo stream from the last month, i.e., I don’t recall where life left off last I posted … Continue reading
Our Picks For The Basement Bathroom
1) Ikea Grundtal Mirror $35 (but I found mine for $10 at a garage sale) 2) 2 Gatco Latitude II Single Sconce Light in Satin Nickel (I actually had to replace a broken one but 3 of the “replacement’ lights arrived … Continue reading
Our Picks For The Upstairs Bathroom and How We Get Great Deals
1) Pottery Barn Vintage Recessed Medicine Cabinet $235.88 (nearly $50 off with promo) 2) 2 Kovacs Brushed Nickel Wall Sconces $121.60 3) Toto Promenade Sink (to be purchased) 4) Moen 90 degree Moentrol tub/shower system $162.04 5) Bianco White Carrara … Continue reading
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We're Annie and Greg Witkamp (aka the Wits, aka Em & Wit Design). We salvage, refurbish and design furniture and homes. We're taking a break from an online & social media presence (for the most part). Our time on the blog was memorable and fun, but we're off to other projects and opportunities. Most derived from our shenanigans here. We'll drop in once in a while, but just know we're off chasing our dreams, tackling goals and living a life we enjoy.
Our specialty is wood furniture in rough shape that we come across on craigslist, at estate sales, on the curb, in a barn, you get it. Those pieces are cleaned, repaired, refurbished and good to go for years to come. Sometimes we design our own pieces.
As of spring 2016, we decided to make this website, the Wits, about our remodeling homes and emandwit.com about the furniture. You can shop there, ask us questions, see our newly finished pieces and portfolio.
We sold our second remodeled home near Seattle in August 2018 and moved to Richmond, Virginia. Getting to Washington was a goal that took years to achieve, but we had an opportunity come up and we grabbed hold (again)!
You can watch our journey right here, there, and/or through Instagram.
-To see the projects we did to our first home, check out the home improvement page. To see our current home projects, scroll through the most recent posts. (I need to update that....)
