How To Make A Kids Art Desk With A Door
This is the story of a door turned desk turned tinier desk. When the kid came down with a case of the coloring bug a few weeks ago, it beca…
Furniture & Building Ideas and Projects
Check out a ton of furniture upgrades and tips for things like Ikea hacks and other simple projects to update your home on a budget. Find detailed instructions for building stuff and making your space more organized and upgraded.
Cutting Down Cabinet Doors To Fit
We knew from the moment that we decided to add new (secondhand) cabinets to our kitchen that the doors could be a challenge. Even though we…
How To Hide A Microwave By Building It Into A Vented Cabinet
So, remember that microwave that we got a great deal on a couple of months ago? Yeah. Well. We returned it. A few of you questioned why we …
How To Build In Your Refrigerator
We learned with our first kitchen that building in your fridge is a huge help in making a kitchen look fancy schmancy. And at the moment ou…
How To Upholster A Chair Cushion
Well, we can check cheerful desk chairs off of our wish list for the office. You can read all about how I prepped, primed, & painted them h…
How To Paint A Chair
Our $35 secondhand chairs – found here – aren’t quite done yet (picture me tapping my foot as I not-so-patiently wait for the paint to dry)…
How To Add Molding To The Top Of Your Cabinets
Yup, we got a little trim. As you read in last week’s Day In The Life post, we recently tackled the add-trim-to-the-hooter-and-the-hotter-o…
How To Make A Planked Wood Desk
So our built-in wall-to-wall desk already made some good progress this week with the painting and making-taller of our cabinets. But someth…
Making A Big Double Desk With Secondhand Cabinets
The transformation of $6 hotel nightstands into a built-in-wall-to-wall-desk-for-two continues. If you recall, we last removed the hardware…
How To Prep Cabinets For Paint
We were humming along on our way to updating our $6 cabinets with some primer and glossy white paint until the whole hurricane thing took o…
How To Reupholster A Rocking Chair With Fabric And Nailheads
Ok I’m back with part two of the madness that is Me vs. Rocker. But remember my disclaimer from yesterday’s post that this entire process w…
How To Redo A Rocking Chair With Spray Paint And Fabric
That’s right. I broke out the word dastardly. And I know we should be hard at work on our office cabinets, but that’s a big job (aka: a wee…