How To Spray Paint Hardware
How you like them handles? (Handles, apples. It’s all the same. Right Matt Damon? What? You don’t think Matt Damon reads this blog? Of cour…
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 Paint Your Front Door
We’re back as promised with the whole front door shebang. First, here’s what we started with: Yup, it was an old maroon storm door with thr…
How To Add Built-In Shelves Next To A Washer & Dryer
Laundry room update? Don’t mind if I do. To jog your memory, so far we’ve replaced the washer/dryer, taken down window shutters & cluttered…
How To Paint Your Fuse Box So It Blends In
Our freshly painted laundry room is so bright and happy that makes me want to sing and dance like a crazy person. First I repainted all the…
How To Fill A Wall Crack So It Doesn’t Come Back
Crack is still whack. I couldn’t resist breaking out that Whitney Houston inspired one-liner, even though we already used it here. Why? Bec…
Switching Out Our Bathroom Light
Let’s talk about a not so quick fix. Between patio building and kitchen makeover-ing, the studio and I like to “treat” ourselves to a few q…
Is A Single Sink Better Than A Double Sink?
As our arms continue to recover from our recent kitchen priming and painting marathon (shared here this morning) we thought we’d take it do…
How We Painted Our Wood Paneling
About a week ago (after we painted our brick fireplace) our kitchen looked like this: Then we removed the desk and upper cabinet (that will…
Removing Cabinets & Patching A Vinyl Floor Tile
the studio’s junk drawer switcheroo was actually just the beginning… the beginning of our kitchen makeover. At least the first phase of it.…
How To Paint A Brick Fireplace
We’re back with the fireplace update that we mentioned in yesterday’s post about removing our old not-baby-safe wood stove. This next step …
Removing An Old Woodstove Fireplace Insert
As of today we’ve lived in our house for six whole months. And in all that time we’ve never formally introduced you to Bart. How rude of us…
How To Build A Fence
As several of you noticed in Monday’s party recap, our patio area boasted another feature on Saturday (beyond more balloons and little kids…