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If you’ve ever tried to renovate part of, or even your entire home, you know what a daunting task it can be. Whether you’re looking for guidance, inspiration, or you’re just curious to see what other people are doing to rebuild their homes, the blogs below feature renovations of all shapes and sizes.

1. Drummond Home – Documents a remodel of a Mid Century Modern home in Kansas City built by Don Drummond.
2. home is a process – “The task of (re)building this house has been at times exhilarating, exhausting, educational, frustrating, and just about any other adjective you can think of. We hope you enjoy reading about it.
3. Kingswood Redux – Musing from a “modest modern” remodel of a 1958 split-level.
4. Apartment #412 – Transforming a small rental apartment on a tiny budget (lots of DIY and bargain hunting) into a stylish living space.
5. Door Sixteen – “My husband Evan and I bought this house in early 2006, and we’ve been renovating it ever since and slowly molding it into our vision of the perfect home.”
6. Aubrey + Lindsay – “We started this blog after we bought our first house so that family could watch from afar the plaster and dust flying through the air.”
7. Pineapples & Parquet – “Fixing up our home in Little Portugal.”
8. Our Castle – “We started gutting and renovating our 1920’s house on June 1, 2008. Join us on our renovation journey while we also adjust to life as parents.”
9. First Time Fancy – Follows the adventures of first-time home owners redecorating and renovating their 90 year old Toronto house.
10. Jen and Dave’s Reno – First-time home owners taking on some big renovations and doing most of the work themselves.
11. 416FixerUpper – “This blog will chronicle our adventures as we turn a 90 year old house in desperate need of repair into our home for the next few years.”
12. Rambling Renovators – “Tag along as we renovate our house, room by room, and learn how to use the new power tools along the way.”
13. Life begins at thirty, right? – A married couple set to work on their new house.
14. 247reno – The goal of this site is to show the realistic behind the scenes process of a renovation.
15. Young House Love – Two young people falling in love with their first house.
16. Picardy Project – “Bringing our storybook home back to storybook life.”
17. Making it Lovely – “I’ve been hard at work transforming my Oak Park, IL bungalow into a lovely home.”
18. Making Our Home – “Finding, purchasing, renovating, decorating and ultimately enjoying our first home together.”
19. 86′n It – “You can take the crack out of the house, but you won’t always find the pipe!”
20. re:habitat – Renovating a pre-1921 American foursquare / arts and crafts house.
21. House in Progress – “We call it home IMPROVEMENT because it can’t get any worse.”
22. Our New Old House – Renovation on a 1918 Craftsman bungalow that was last updated in the ’60s.
23. The Brick House – Renovating a mid century brick house in the middle of retirement hell. Making it awesome and doing it on a budget.
24. This Decrepit Victorian – “Follow along as we try to bring life back to a circa 1900 Victorian house in Richmond, Virginia.”
25. Tiny Old House – “I’m a lover of old, small houses on a shoestring budget with only a few skills in remodeling, an interest in environmental methods, a 1911 house that needs renovating, two curly puppies, and my loving husband.”

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