How To Make A Homemade Play Kitchen From A Cabinet
We did it. Holy cats, we did it. Just a few days before Christmas we started the kid’s homemade play-kitchen (in secret of course, since sh…
Second House Ideas and Projects
Here's how we updated and transformed our second house with DIY projects and a lot of sweat equity! Check out all of the before and after pictures and project tutorials so you can whip up your own room makeovers.
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! …
How To Make A Kids Art Desk With A Door
This is the story of a door turned desk turned tinier desk. When the kid came down with a case of the coloring bug a few weeks ago, it beca…
Buying Metal Stools From An Industrial School Supply Shop
John wanted me to work Stool Boom into the post title because of this video (which he requests that you all check it out so that you can hu…
22 Free Holiday Art Ideas
I warned you that I was really excited to go all out for our first “real” Christmas in our new house, so it’s no surprise that I got giddy …
Cutting Down Cabinet Doors To Fit
We knew from the moment that we decided to add new (secondhand) cabinets to our kitchen that the doors could be a challenge. Even though we…
Decorating The Outside Of Our House For Christmas
This holiday season is full of firsts for us. It’s the first time the kid can shout things like “I love you Santa!” to the inflatables at H…
Dude, We’ve Lived Here An Entire Year
Which means this time last year, we woke up to a surprise snowstorm… … that resulted in our UHaul slipping into the gutter of our old drive…
How To Hide A Microwave By Building It Into A Vented Cabinet
So, remember that microwave that we got a great deal on a couple of months ago? Yeah. Well. We returned it. A few of you questioned why we …