Board & Batten For Less Than $60
Yesterday you saw how our board and batten project came out for the Pinterest Challenge, so today we’re back with the full tutorial shebang…
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.
Listy McListerson: Updated
Warning: this is longer than the Oscars, so feel free to fast forward to the good parts. These posts actually came about when people asked …
Avoiding Buyer’s Remorse & Purchasing Paralysis
Q: “How do you know when you’re investing in the right piece for a room? I’m paralyzed to pull the trigger and then later realize the table…
How To Change Your Outlets
While our sunroom mojo was still running on high from accomplishing our most daring painting task to date, I quickly followed up with two s…
How To Spray Paint Your Old Brass Door Knobs
You down with ORB? Yeah you know me. The deed has been done. After years (yes nearly two years!) of planning to upgrade every last old bras…
How To Build A Wood Frame Around A Bathroom Mirror
But first, who framed Roger Rabbit? I dunno. I can’t remember how that movie ended. But as for who framed out our hall bathroom mirror? We …
How To Frost A Window
We wish we had a giant bathroom update to share, but we’re at that phase of the project where some of the bigger things have been checked o…
How To Hide A Cracked Tile With A DIY Shelf
Aw yeah, it’s hall bathroom time, baby. We have about five phases of updates that we plan to share as we go, so here’s phase one. We’ve bee…
25 Tips For Buying And Selling On Craigslist
After a bunch of you requested a post about this, we’re finally writing a loooong rundown about how we use Craiglist to score affordable se…
We Have A New French Door!
Yesterday we shared a little ditty on DIYing vs. hiring things out with our busted old sliders as the star. They got stuck, had a broken sc…
When To DIY vs. When To Hire It Out
We get the whole “to DIY or not to DIY, that is the question” question a lot, so we thought this might be a great way to crack open our bra…
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…