Finally snapped a pic with the curtains in place, greenery back, and the new cabinet and French doors. Loving how this breezy room is shaping up!
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A lot of sanding, a few coats of paint, new knobs, some contact paper, and finally I have the storage solution I envisioned for my sweaters as well as a few other odds and ends. Beautiful!
Hard to believe three years ago I was planning to rip this Charlie Brown tree out of the yard. When we moved in the house it was a scraggly bunch of sticks. The picture on the right is actually after it was pruned the year we moved in and it […]
I’ve had this photograph for nearly 10 years and just finally framed it.
New knobs, a few coats of paint for a distressed look (but mostly red) and this will make a beautiful storage space for my sweaters.
So last week, instead of just thinking about the kitchen, I spent the better half of my morning concocting a mock of what the kitchen could look like. My husband joked, “Can we just post that picture on Facebook and say that’s what we did?” Joking aside, he liked it, […]
As I’m beginning to think about what the next steps are for the kitchen, I realized I’ve never really posted any pictures of the updates we’ve made so far. While they’ve been minimal – a coat of paint, new appliances, little decor – they’ve still helped the kitchen come a […]
The house projects that I’ve put off for so long are slowly being ticked off my list. The latest is my over-involved office corkboard, for which I picked up the corkboards late last year. Then they sat in the garage, wrapped in their plastic, until a few weeks ago when […]
Since I first laid eyes on a test tube spice rack, I’ve had an slightly nutty obsession with having one. I believe it was in high school when I first saw them, and they seemed soooo expensive back then. And even then I understood how impractical the they were — […]
‘The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.’ – David Hockney This quote seemed somewhat apropos for this project that started out as a simple way to put more of my toys on display but turned into a vehicle for my current emotional state. […]