It was by complete accident when we purchased our first home in October of 2013. It was a 1920’s fixer upper farmhouse and it was really bad! Worse than expected as we began our grueling 4-year EXTENSIVE restoration journey. Our purchase was before I knew about Instagram, Fixer upper, and Pinterest, so Google was our main tool for direction at the time. We viewed a number of homes that didn’t need nearly as much attention as the farmhouse but, all I saw was the huge wrap around porch and cozy layout, completely disregarding its inhabitable conditions-especially for the harsh Montana winters. Jerimiah, however, saw the bee infestation, the busted galvanized and copper plumbing, the burnt outlets and old wiring, the cracked chimneys, the saggy ceiling, the single pane windows, the leaky roof, the rotten deck, the floors, lack of insulation, the paper-thin walls-literally. Even our realtor highly discouraged purchasing it, but we did it anyways.