Hey there, friend!
We’re Trent and Jen – the self-taught DIYers taking on each home project one room at a time. After living in and updating 4 homes (including a rental), we have learned a lot through the renovation process.
About 4 years ago, we also started our own artistic painting company specializing in limewash finishes for interiors and exteriors throughout Alabama. And we share all the inside secrets here at Your Home, Renewed.
The phrase “Broke Musicians in Love” is what drives us to do what we do with the eye on the prize, which not only is a beautiful room, but also a gorgeous budget to go with it!
We are so glad you are here. Our hope is to encourage, inspire and provide you with all the tools to help you create a home with intention that you love to live in.
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We have always been thrifty, looking for ways to save a buck. While we dream of having high end decor, our budget has never allowed for it, so we found innovative ways to recreate a look we love at a price we can afford.
Our Goal
Through this learning process, we are eager to share our tips we find with you. We know that having the home of our dreams isn’t a reality for most of us, but you can create a home you love with a little bit of ingenuity.
When I share room reveals, or images of my home with you, know that the picture isn’t perfect.
Many hours, mess ups, and redos were done to get create that look. If you could look behind the lens, you would see all the papers, shoes, and junk pushed aside to get that shot.
You see, we’re just like you!
One question we often get asked is “How do you keep your house so clean all the time with 2 boys?” Well, we don’t!
We live in our home and it’s certainly not perfect. That’s why we love finding items that are ‘less than’ – items with character. Life is meant to be enjoyed despite this constant goal we battle to reach perfection. Our hope is to provide you with all the tools to help you create a home with intention that you love to live in while giving you grace when it’s not perfect.
Not only do we hope to inspire you, but we want to connect with you. We are honored to read each and every comment you leave. You can always find behind the scene shenanigans over on our Instagram Page, or you can sign up for our emails so you don’t miss a post.
There is “Beauty in the Blemishes” and we hope to help you find it!
Head over to the blog and enjoy looking around!
So you wanna know more about the
crazy couple behind the blog?
Well, let’s start where our love story began.
We met while attending college at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. We both were in the music program.
Jen was studying Vocal Performance and Trent was there for a degree in Percussion.
He offered to help Jen who was struggling in her music theory class. The rest was history!
We fell in love hard and fast and were married there on the campus in the antebellum mansion.
After we were married, we pursued our dreams and moved where the music took us.
We lived in Nashville then Birmingham, and took the biggest risk of our lives and moved to Los Angeles.
Loading up a moving van, we left without jobs, a place to live, or any clue how to do this, but we were fueled by our love for music and each other.
And we had success! We established our home recording studio, performed on stage and TV and toured the world!
Then along came our first son and we were eager to head back close to family, so back to Tennessee we went.
We loved being close to family and back where our college buddies were, and we added our second son to our family.
But Trent’s touring schedule started to grow more and more frequent.
Until Trent’s boss landed a job at a casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Thinking it was temporary, we closed up our home and went to Vegas.
6 months turned to 7 years and somewhere in between, we sold that TN home and bought a builder grade home in Vegas.
And that’s where the blog began.
Living on a musician’s salary, but wanting to create a beautiful home, we started finding creative and economical ways to get the look we loved!
It was a long seven years for us and we longed to be back in Tennessee.
Suddenly an opportunity came and allowed us to leave Vegas behind and move into our Almost Farmhouse.
That’s when the blog really began to take shape and we went from part time hobby bloggers to pursuing this as our full time gig.
We started tackling bigger and better projects and learning so much along the way.
And just recently, our job circumstances brought us back to Birmingham, Trent’s home town, and we are loving back to life our 80s rental turned home.
So if you’ve lost count, we’ve lived in 4 states and have had 11 different mailing addresses – PHEW!
We are so excited to continue these DIY adventures with you and are thankful you are here.
We love sharing our life and creations with you and hope to inspire you to create a home with intention all while finding Beauty in the Blemishes.
And we always love hearing from you! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. You can also contact us here.
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Our Favs
Fav Food to Make
Trent’s Homemade Pizza
Fav TV Show
The Andy Griffith Show
Fav Biz to support
Romabio Paints
Fav HOliday
Christmas
