Burritos and Bubbly – Home Improvement, Design & Family

Our House

We started Burritos and Bubbly while we were updating and restoring our first home, a 3,000-square-feet, three story, 1890 registered historic site in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, but after five years there we were looking for a change of pace, less house to take care of, and a home that...

Home Tour: Living Room

Hey, let’s keep going on our virtual home tour, ok? Next up: the living room! It’s taken a long time for us to get to this point, but I finally feel like I’m happy with the way this room looks. It’s a great place for us to show off all the late 19th/early...

DIY Modern Horizontal-Plank Gate

If we’re going to be honest here (and why shouldn’t we be), our backyard is a sore spot for us. It’s not what we want, but we’re working on it. But our gate seemed to always set the tone for what we were getting into when we walked into the...

Starting Baby on Solid Foods

It’s been SO MUCH FUN starting Joey Lulu on solid foods. Our pediatrician recommended starting anytime after four months, but we waited until our kitchen was finally useable a few weeks ago, as she was turning six months. I always thought baby food meant super bland, gross moosh, but the trend these...

Putting the bee in busy

So it’s about to get real busy around here. Real real busy. We’re starting a big icky time at work where I’ll probably be doing a lot of OT. And I signed up for not just one but two new classes that start this week. And, yeah, there’s still the...

Our Fall & Halloween Living Room Tour!

Hello there! I’m so excited to show you the small changes we’ve made to decorate our house for fall and Halloween. I love updating our living room for the seasons and holidays, but in simple, not totally over-the-top ways, like switching out pillow covers and adding a few pumpkins here...

Growing up in Alaska

It’s super duper cold in Cleveland right now. 11 below zero currently (not counting the wind chill), and despite us cranking the heat way up to 72 inside (we usually keep it between 62 and 65), the thermostat is only registering it at 56 indoors. It’s cold. For real. I grew...

Cabin Progress: The Living Room

Hi guys! Tuesday was my birthday so I skipped our normal post, but I didn’t want to skip today too (even though I think my birthday deserves to be celebrated ALL week haha!). It’s been fun sharing with you all of our cabin progress, from the kitchen to the master...

Summer of the Burrito; aka Burrito Summer

It is well known throughout the (Cleve)land that I am the tri-state area’s premier burrito eater. In my prime I was eating three to five burritos a week. These days, I’m down to one or two a week. What can I say? Nobody’s perfect. The problem is, I eat at the...

That Time Everything Went Wrong

Sigh. There’s a lot that’s difficult about renovating a house six hours away… obviously. There’s the issue of finding the time to go because you can’t just stop by real quick, there’s taking days off work, there’s having someone watch the kids and dog at home or driving all day with...