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 …
Third House Ideas and Projects
Here are all of the updates, projects and makeovers that we did to our current house, complete with before & after photos and tutorials.
How To Make A DIY Trellis
Behold: our DIY wire trellis! I’ve wanted to try this project for over a decade and I’m over the moon with how it’s turned out. All it took…
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…
How To Stain Your Wood Cabinets Darker
The stain on our kitchen cabinets was too orange and dated-looking. We loved the wood grain, but just wanted a darker, more contemporary co…
How To Strip A Deck For Stain
When we bought our house, the deck was in ROUGH shape. Before we could revive it with a fresh coat of stain, we had to strip off the old st…
10 Easy Shed Storage Ideas
We recently added several DIY organization solutions in our new shed – all of which we completed in just one weekend! So today we’re going …
How To Make Built-In Cabinets
There’s no better kind of storage than built-in storage, especially when you can integrate it with the architecture of a space. So when we …
How To Make DIY Floating Shelves
We’ve done tons of DIY shelving projects in our homes, but these simple floating shelves in our bonus room are some of our favorites. We lo…
How We Got Our Stained Grout White Again
The discolored and dirt-stained grout in the tile floor of our foyer looked super old and gross, but after trying nearly a dozen cleaners a…
Painted Brick House’s Exterior Makeover
We’re currently still in Richmond (not for much longer though!), and in order to share a huge progress post about our Florida house’s exter…
Two Final House Tour Videos Pre & Post Packing
Ok, this post won’t need a lot of words (famous last words from this Chatty Cathy) because the two videos in this post will do a lot of the…
The Best LED Light Bulbs
I am, shall we say, particular about my light bulbs. And as we switched over our entire house to LED bulbs recently, I wanted to make sure …