The Slow Journey From Junk Room To Playroom
About a month ago we were walking around the park and the kid pointed to a dogwood tree and said “wow, that’s a big big tree in a big big w…
Cleaning, Organizing, & Eco Ideas and Projects
Great tips and tricks for getting organized at home, and cleaning your house in an easier (and faster) way! Also includes recipes for homemade eco cleaning products and our cleaning schedule for getting it all done!
Adding Storage With An Ikea Expedit Bookshelf
We’re trying to redo the sunroom on a budget using as much that we already have as we can (since we have other projects like the kid’s big …
How To Store Christmas Decorations
Q: Can you post about how you store all of your Christmas decorations? Since you rotate the ornaments on your tree each year and have a lar…
Sunroom Makeover Planning
Just like we did in our first house, we find ourselves bouncing around from project to project and from room to room (we’ve tackled the liv…
TV In The Bedroom? We Say Yes.
We’re bringing someone else into the bedroom. And it’s… gasp… a TV. We were originally anti-TV-in-the-bedroom, so we know it’s not for ever…
Paint Storage & Pegboards In Our Basement Workshop
Go navy! Please don’t misinterpret that previous sentence as a taking of sides in the long-standing Army / Navy feud. I’m 100% neutral on t…
Finally, Now We Can Show You The Playroom…
Quick note: Tonight we’ll be in Minneapolis at the West Elm on 3879 Gallagher Drive for cookies, cocoa, and a book signing at 6pm (we hear …
How To Organize Tools With A Pegboard
Quick note: For now we just have lots of rain and a few wind gusts thanks to Hurricane Sandy, but things are supposed to get a bit rougher …
How To Organize A Basement Workshop
Now that we’ve cleared out our backyard’s weed & liriope convention, let’s move on to another area that has been sorely lacking our attenti…
How To Host A Yard Sale
When the studio and I hosted our first yard sale over four years ago, we remember feeling rushed to get everything outside and set up, bein…
How We Liked Renting A Bagster Dumpster
So. My basement workshop. I owned up to how messy it was a few months ago. Then building the kid’s dollhouse prompted me to tidy it up a sm…
Organizing Our Closet Shelves With Bins
That’s right. I pulled a Benita Larsson. For anyone who doesn’t know her, she’s the mastermind organizer over at Chez Larsson and I adore h…