A Day Of Thrifting
Occasion: The thrifting bug struck on a lazy Saturday morning Location: All over Richmond to six of my favorite thrift stores with the hubb…
Decorating and DIY Project Journal
Older decorating tutorials, paint projects, furniture ideas, and house updates from the Objectales archive.
How To Build A Deck
The deck is officially done. Sound the celebratory cowbells! I actually finished it on Friday and we’ve spent the last few days crossing al…
Budget Blooms: Tulips, Take Three
Things I’m great at: making up words to songs when I don’t know them, eating Oreos, dancing like Elaine from Seinfeld. Things I’m bad at: l…
Multiplying Egg Chairs…
I’m back as promised with: an egg chair update (since I just tossed pillows on it but promised to share the rest of the details once we fig…
Fab Freebie: Get Your Fixture Fix
***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries – see who won below!*** And the random person getting their fixture fix this week is… Anne …
How To Turn A Basket Into A Pendant Light
This is the story of making an old basket into a pendant light using just this $10 thrift store basket that we found along with two other s…
Window Shopping: High Bridges & Green Fronts
We took a little day trip last weekend to a nearby town called Farmville. It’s about an hour away from Richmond and, as the name suggests, …
A Painted White Brick Fireplace In A Vaulted Living Room
Should all brick fireplaces be painted? No way. We always tell anyone who’s on the fence not to touch that brush. But if you’re 100% sure y…
Replacing An Exterior Light
Let’s talk more about things that were too tiny. But instead of yesterday’s mini-mirror, this time we’re taking things outside. To the carp…
Hanging A Mirror Over The Mantel
We’re reaching the point in our house where we’re finally trying to slowly upgrade the “we’ll-just-put-this-here- for-now-since-we-just-mov…
Listy McListerson: Updated
Warning: this post contains more words than a handful of housewives can sling around in one of those two hour reunion episodes. So feel fre…
A Curvy Armchair For The Kitchen
Chairs are definitely one of those high/low things for us. In the low category we have our $30 thrift store egg chair… … our $32 stools fro…