How To Spray Paint A Mailbox
Remember when John met his frog friend (well, technically his toad friend) here? Well, this time around we made a new neighborhood acquaint…
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.
Adding Shoe Storage By The Door
We couldn’t do all of this work in the laundry area and just ignore our sloppy shoe situation. Since the side door into our laundry room is…
Turning Note Cards Into Wall Art
Well well well, if isn’t those little photography note cards again. You know, the ones we bought on our anniversary from a local art galler…
Updating Yard Sale Frames With Spray Paint
We found these babies at a yard sale and haggled them down to $10 a pop. Let’s call them our twig & berries. We immediately thought the ext…
How To Paint A Closet
Nothing like a little weekend chaos. Guess what we did this weekend? Here’s a hint: And another hint: And another hint: And one last hint: …
How To Hang Your Ironing Board On The Wall
As much as we love having our new built-in shelves in the laundry room, they did kinda get in the way of our oh-so-fancy ironing board stor…
How To Make A Ribbon Chandelier
After admiring various ribbon chandeliers in baby stores, catalogs, magazines, and even over on Pintrest, I decided to try my hand at one f…
Finding Children’s Chairs At A Yard Sale
This weekend we got these vintage kids chairs (they’re just 2 feet tall) for $7.50 each at a local yard sale. They were marked as $10 a pop…
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…
A Weird Milestone
We passed a weird milestone on Wednesday. On the surface, it just marked seven months of living in this shouldn’t-call-it-new-anymore house…
How To Spray Paint A Metal Outdoor Patio Set
Waste not, want not. That was my attitude when it came to using up the rest of the oil-rubbed bronze spray paint from this project that I h…
How To Use Polymeric Sand To Block Weeds In Our Paver Patio
Let’s talk about crack sand. You know we love to save a buck wherever we can. Sometimes to a fault. And as any scrimper knows, sometimes it…