How To Remove Wallpaper
Wallpaper may be trending again, but many of us still deal with dingy, dated, or downright ugly old wallpaper we didn’t pick. Our old home …
Home Improvement Ideas and Projects
A bunch of in depth tutorials and step by step instructions for completing home improvement projects, keeping up with home maintenance, transforming a fixer-upper, and doing things like unclogging a drain or building a deck.
How To Use A Pressure Washer: A Beginner’s Guide
You may think pressure washers are complicated, expensive, or hard to control. But good news – they’re not! Pressure washing is an easy, af…
How To Build Easy DIY Garage Shelving
When we needed some heavy-duty garage shelving for our new shed, we turned to this shelf tutorial from our friend Ana White. Shelves like t…
How We Manage Renovation Stress: 5 Tips
Big renovations are exciting and fun, but it’s no secret that they can also be really stressful – especially when it’s one of those expensi…
Refinishing Hardwood Floors 101
We’ve refinished hardwood floors in 5 of the 6 homes we’ve owned. That doesn’t make us professional floor refinishers, but as homeowners an…
Using Solid Stain In Our Outdoor Shower
In all of our years of DIYing, I don’t think we’ve ever used a solid stain before. But we recently had a project that was *perfectly* suite…
DIY Built-In Bookshelves
This DIY tutorial for adding built-in bookshelves is a lot simpler than it looks. That means getting this classic look of floor-to-ceiling …
6 Ways We Upgraded Our Bedroom
Our bedroom used to be a living room, so it’s taken some work to turn it into a comfortable, functional, and beautiful sleeping space (it’s…
How To Install A Ring Doorbell In 5 Easy Steps
Did you know you can add a Ring Video Doorbell without an electrician or having to fuss with any wires? You don’t even have to have an exis…
How To Install A Stair Runner
It may seem intimidating to install a stair runner yourself, but it’s so darn easy that we’ve done it twice! Thrice if you count demonstrat…
17 DIY Shelf Ideas
Over the years, we’ve added tons of shelves to our homes – from floating shelves and built-in bookcases to decorative display shelves and h…
How To Unclog A Bathtub Drain
Excuse my excitement, but yesterday at exactly 5:41 pm I told our clogged bathtub drain who was boss. I did it all by myself while John was…