An Inspired & Inexpensive House Tour: a house log
After Jordan and Landon shared their amazingly affordable (and drop dead vivid) kitchen overhaul with us (here), we certainly were left wanting more. So when they offered up the opportunity to House Crash them, we said “uh… yes please.” And we figured since it is their house they’d be the best at showing you around, so we are passing the virtual mic over to them for the tour while we clean our house within an inch of it is life in an effort to woo a few more potential buyers this weekend (fingers crossed). Enjoy the tour!
Welcome to our home in Columbia, South Carolina! We are Jordan & Landon from landonjacob.com.
You’ve already seen the kitchen (here), but we will share that pic again, simply to refresh your memory:
This is our dining room. The wine bottles come from one of our go-to wedding venues that we shoot at frequently! We had them hold the bottles for us (and we picked up a bottle cutter on eBay).
That is in fact a DIYed mirror leaning against the wall. We picked up mirrored closet doors on Craigslist for $40 for the pair and then found an old weathered pallet, took it apart, and made two mirrors (one for in here and one for the hallway).
Our dining table is an remarkable thrift store find that people ooh and ahh over. It was simply 10 bucks! The chairs and bench were picked up at a yard sale, and the ottoman was a throw out item from a friend.
Next we have our living room:
As you can see above, Landon made two frames out of more pallets. We truly enjoy that rustic wood (its kinda all over the house). We made that ottoman which was in fact inspired by Kara’s Hands-on ottoman that you shared!
Oh and that old wine bottle crate in the foreground works as an excellent magazine holder. We also enjoy our little Hands-on end tables which we made from vintage suitcases on legs. We also like those hanging baskets from Ikea on the wall next to the sofa (it was in fact an idea we stole from the ikea catalog). The doors on the wall above the bookcases are original doors from the home, so we hoped to incorporate them into the room.
Next we have our bedroom, where we brought in the beadboard wainscotting ourselves and hung a bunch of inexpensive frames that I sprayed white on the wall in a group.
And here is our bathroom. Can you tell we have a think for big mirrors? We enjoy how they open things up and make rooms feel lighter and bigger.
This is our excellent little hallway! Its my go-to space in the house! Its about the size of our other rooms! The chairs were thrifted for $40 and we recovered them. That is also the second homemade mirror that we made with the mirrored doors from Craigslist and the weathered wood pallet. We also grabbed that lotus light fixture from Ikea.
This is our office / crafts room. We thrifted that excellent craft table for 5 bucks. We also enjoy instruments (we enjoy music around here since my dad was a musician, and Landon is one as well… I sing, but technically that is not a musician). Anyway I enjoy how the blue guitar fits so perfectly in this room and that it gets to be a piece of art on the wall.
This is the spare bedroom. We found the bed on Craigslist and I picked up those excellent orange curtains for about $1.50 at Goodwill!
This is our spare bathroom that we simply wrapped up off! It was a large mess before! It is so quite compact, so its kinda hard to show off in pictures, but I tried! That is your sink and faucet by the way (I was inspired by your bathroom overhaul) so we ordered them and brought in them to an antique wash stand that we found! And of course we have another large mirror, but it truly makes this bathroom feel so much bigger!
Ok, so that is our house. Thanks so much for sharing it! – Jordan & Landon
So who is jealous? Our hands are officially raised. Thanks so much to Jordan and Landon for sharing their home and all of their affordable Hands-on ideas. We are sufficiently inspired. What was your go-to part everyone?
