How To Make DIY Blackout Curtains
File this under “A Lazy Mom’s Trick To Get More Sleep.” I made no-sew, mind-numbingly-easy, shortcut, DIY blackout curtains. Enough adjecti…
Decorating and DIY Project Journal
Older decorating tutorials, paint projects, furniture ideas, and house updates from the Objectales archive.
Christmas Gift Ideas For Husbands, Wives, & Kids
Let’s get into what Santa brought us. This was an exciting Christmas because in all of our seven December 25ths together, we’ve never woke …
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…
Fab Freebie: The Simple Life
***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries – see who won below!*** Random.org is wishing a very happy new year to TWO of you by select…
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)…
December Superlatives
Holy cow, is it really going to be 2012 on Sunday? December flew by. So before it scoots away for good, we like to take a moment to look ba…
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…
Twenty-Twelve Resolutions
Every year we publicly proclaim a few of our resolutions in the hope that it’ll light a fire under our arse (arses?) and help us “get there…
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…
Fab Freebie: Gotta Hand It To You
***This giveaway is no longer accepting entries – see who won below!*** Thanks to random.org, we’ve got a Merry (belated) Christmas prize g…
An Easy DIY Christmas Card Idea
With family arriving tonight for our first ever Christmas in Richmond, we wanted to be sure we shared our holiday card with you guys first …
Updating A Dated Kitchen Yourself
We were so happy to stumble upon Beth’s email in our inbox. Her retelling of her kitchen redo had all the elements that we love in a good r…