How To Add Molding To The Top Of Your Cabinets
Yup, we got a little trim. As you read in last week’s Day In The Life post, we recently tackled the add-trim-to-the-hooter-and-the-hotter-o…
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.
Restocking Our Fridge For Less
As many of you know, hurricane Irene was a total jerk to our neck of the woods. Not only did it knock trees into nearby homes, cars, poles,…
Upgrading An Old Chandelier With Paint & A New Shade
Alternate punny post title: The Updated Light Fixture Blues. That’s right, we’ve got the blues, but we’re far from sad about our “new” ligh…
Small And Simple Bedroom Updates
We’d like to present our bedroom with the award for Most Often Tweaked. It just seems like time goes by and a few things get added to the m…
Painting Our Office Moonshine by Benjamin Moore
We did it. Completely out of order. Yup, we finally decided what color to paint the office and went for it. Which would have been a lot eas…
Framing A Custom House Portrait
How do you like that sensationalized title? Haha. It’s like Star Magazine up in this joint. This is basically a post idea that John and I c…
How To Make A Planked Wood Desk
So our built-in wall-to-wall desk already made some good progress this week with the painting and making-taller of our cabinets. But someth…
Framing Out A Mirror That’s Mounted On A Door
Let’s talk about a mini makeover that involved a whole lot of hiccups. It was alllllll the way back in January that we decided that this mi…
Removing Weeds From Our Paver Driveway
Perhaps this screenshot of our old header will give you a hint as to what we tackled in this outdoor update (which is most likely number 7 …
Making A Big Double Desk With Secondhand Cabinets
The transformation of $6 hotel nightstands into a built-in-wall-to-wall-desk-for-two continues. If you recall, we last removed the hardware…
Whew. Comment Explosion.
Who knew a half-baked banquette idea could bring on the chatter like that? Over 800 comments within a few hours time? Insanity. We’re lovin…
Kitchen Brain Dump
True to form, we’re all over the place over here. After switching up the ol’ blog design (and figuring out why the header was MIA for 20% o…