Finished Laundry Room Makeover Before & Afters
With the addition of a light fixture and shoe storage this past week (and deciding to nix a window covering for now and just frost the wind…
Decorating Ideas and Projects
Here are a bunch of decorating tips and tricks to upgrade any home and makeover rooms on a budget. From curtain hanging tips to what kind of rug to get (and how to mix patterns) there's a lot of info to discover.
How Many Patterns & Fabrics Should You Use In Each Room?
I was watching Sarah Richardson (Sarah 101) the other night (thanks DVR) and she mentioned that at the end of a makeover she has usually us…
How To Hang Your Ironing Board On The Wall
As much as we love having our new built-in shelves in the laundry room, they did kinda get in the way of our oh-so-fancy ironing board stor…
How To Make A Ribbon Chandelier
After admiring various ribbon chandeliers in baby stores, catalogs, magazines, and even over on Pintrest, I decided to try my hand at one f…
Finding Children’s Chairs At A Yard Sale
This weekend we got these vintage kids chairs (they’re just 2 feet tall) for $7.50 each at a local yard sale. They were marked as $10 a pop…
How To Tea Stain Pillow Covers
I got into one of my weird rebellious moods (rebellious is a relative term for me) and decided to tea stain two pillow covers that we alrea…
How To Make Ikea Curtains Look Good
That’s how many yards I knew I’d need to make eight living room curtains. It generally breaks down to five yards of fabric per window (or s…
Patio Updates And Backyard Landscaping
Don’t get too excited. It’s not so much aesthetic progress, as it is functional progress. We got our old spray painted metal and glass coff…
How To Sew Curtain Panels
Our recent road trip to see Katie and her amazing house gave us that tickle to get down to business when we got back home. You know how you…
Getting The Scale Right With Furniture
Nope, this isn’t a weight loss post. The scale that I’m talking is this too small had-it-so-we-used-it bookshelf that we shoved into the gu…
How To Dye Fabric Chair Slipcovers
Remember how we envisioned modern and cheerful green leather parsons chairs around a chunky wood table from pretty much the moment we moved…
Listy McListerson (Updated)
We thought it was high time we updated our to-do list (which you first saw here) now that we’ve lived here five months and crossed off a fe…