Introducing the 2nd Fixer-Upper Home
I snapped some shots, as promised, a few weeks ago before we offically moved in and I’m back to share. The details: 1949 fixer-upper I spotted on the market in King County here in Washington (yeah I still can’t believe … Continue reading
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
Doorway Update
Wrote a post for you guys about my dreaming of pedestal sinks yesterday. A post with a bunch of photos from Houzz.com, using their embed feature, when not a photo showed up here as it’s supposed to and an hour wasted. So, … Continue reading
Renovations
1) Matte white subway tile from Lowes for the tub shower 2) Fresca Versa faucet in brushed nickel 3) 2 Gatco wall sconces 4) Pottery Barn vintage recessed medicine cabinet 5) Talleviken sink from Ikea 6) Mohawk Brookedale engineered hardwood flooring in natural … 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....)
