How We Got Our Stained Grout White Again
The discolored and dirt-stained grout in the tile floor of our foyer looked super old and gross, but after trying nearly a dozen cleaners a…
Decorating and DIY Project Journal
Older decorating tutorials, paint projects, furniture ideas, and house updates from the Objectales archive.
How To Paint A Porch Floor
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about living here, it’s that we do a ton of living outside. Between each at-home learning break the kids…
How To Paint Your Kitchen Cabinets
Painting your cabinets is a perfect way to makeover a dated kitchen without splurging on a big renovation. It doesn’t cost much and, with t…
How To Build A Modern Fireplace Mantel
We mentioned in this year’s holiday decorating post that we wanted to get some sort of fireplace mantel built this month and, well, Santa d…
Kitchen & Sitting Area, Six Months In
*We updated this post to add additional pics & a video, so if you see something here that you don’t remember when you first read it, that’s…
Decorating Our Downsized Home For The Holidays
There’s something extra special to me about decorating a house for your first holiday season spent there. It’s right up there with seeing w…
What’s It Like To Downsize?
Believe it or not, we’ve lived in our new house for over six months now. Half a year! So we thought this would be a good time to check in o…
2020 Holiday Gift Guides
This year we got our gift guide post up a lot sooner than usual, because we’re highlighting tons of small makers and Black-owned businesses…
Making A Media Cabinet With Ikea Besta Cabinets
Downsizing from 3200 square feet to 1400 means storage is a big deal to us these days, and a couple of weeks ago we got two major upgrades …
Front Porch Makeover (We Painted The Ceiling!)
It has been about five months since we first introduced you to the outside of our house. That was our very first week of living here, and o…
Adding A Sisal Stair Runner
the studio recently hinted on Instagram Stories that we were up to our old staple-coloring antics. And by that I mean we were installing an…
DIYing A Colorful Wood Wall Treatment
Hoo boy, today’s post has all the good stuff: murder, mystery, INTRIGUE! Just kidding it actually has none of that. But it does have a rive…