How To Hang Homemade Kitchen Shelves
Let’s see… when we last left off on Monday, our open shelves had been primed in preparation for their big hanging debut. While we had the p…
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 Patch And Spackle Ceiling Holes
Holey moley. Our ceiling was having a little hole problem after some electrical wizork last week (warning: $herdog is in full effect in thi…
How To Hang A Range Hood
“How’s it hanging?” That was the big question last week. Not in the “Hey, how ya doing?” sense of things, but more in the “Um, how are we g…
Planning Electrical Upgrades During A Kitchen Renovation
Remember when we shared how shiny and polished our kitchen started to look after we finished grouting? And then revealed the chaos that ens…
How To Grout Penny Tile
Let’s talk about grout, because with our penny rounds finally all installed, grout was next on the agenda. It has a way of taking things fr…
How To Install Penny Tile
We did it. We tiled the entire back wall of our kitchen in a counter-to-ceiling backsplash move that we like to call Project Crazy, and we …
Tips For Adding A Penny Tile Backsplash
Monday’s backsplash post kinda dove straight into the middle of the project, so we thought while we were back to share our progress we shou…
How To Cut Penny Tile
Oh man, backsplash-ing is 50% scary and 50% suuuuuper excitiiiiiiiiinnnnnggg! Sorry, got carried away there. Maybe it’s 90% super exciting …
Painting Our Wood Cabinets Cloud Cover by Benjamin Moore
Ok, so we completed the door-painting process a few days ago (picture us doing the droopiest super-tired happy dance that you’ve ever seen)…
Priming Our Wood Kitchen Cabinets
Between finalizing our 260+ page book manuscript (due Jan 4th- ack!) and hosting/enjoying family time (and lots of delicious food), we’ve a…
The Best Way To Prep Cabinets For Paint
I guess that title should really be “Puttering Around With Putty (aka: Wood Filler) And Sandpaper And A Spackle Knife And Deglosser.” But t…
How To Add Toe Kicks & A Window Sill
Can’t we just paint some darn cabinets already?! If your patience to see some painted cabinets is wearing thin – just imagine how we feel! …