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…
Painting Ideas and Projects
Painting your home (both inside and outside) doesn't have to be complicated! Here's how to pick the right paint color, choose the right paint finish, avoid annoying painting mistakes, learn how to paint your cabinets (or even paint an appliance like your fridge) and much more.
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 Pick A New Siding Color
Duuude. We painted our house. Clarification: we painted a few tiny test swatches. The creamy color wasn’t exactly hurting our eyes, but the…
Painting The Wall Under Our Chair Rail Gray Horse By Benjamin Moore
We finally got around to painting the area under the chair rail in the office a shade darker than the stenciled wall above it so it feels m…
How To Upholster A Chair Cushion
Well, we can check cheerful desk chairs off of our wish list for the office. You can read all about how I prepped, primed, & painted them h…
Wall Stenciling Tips & After Photos
My little stenciling project above the chair rail in the office has officially concluded. Woooo to the hooooo! It only took three 4.5 hour …
How To Stencil A Wall
Dude, stencils are no joke. But I did it! I bit the bullet and ordered the stencil that John and I have been pining after for the past mont…
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…
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…
How To Prep Cabinets For Paint
We were humming along on our way to updating our $6 cabinets with some primer and glossy white paint until the whole hurricane thing took o…
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…
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…