HOW TO BUILD A SHIPLAP ACCENT WALL | DIY
08/22/2018
My advice: When you are starting a remodel on an entire home while living in it, begin with one of the easiest rooms first. A spot where you can quickly put your stamp on it and make it start to feel like home. For us, that was our son’s bedroom. A little paint, a fun accent wall build and done. One room down, a lot more to go. This is a look at the room before the makeover. (We started the remodel before I remembered to take photos.) The walls were a tan/mustard/gold color. With only one window in the room, the darker walls soaked up the little natural light available. Despite my love for light, bright, white, we let our son chose the paint colors. He went with three walls of a lighter blue color and the main wall a shade darker – all still light enough to...
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While we’ve done a lot of DIY projects around our house, the cedar shutters were one of the easiest. ...
Summertime! There is nothing better than fresh vegetables from the garden. I’m still living the Keto lifestyle. I’m down...
HOME SWEET HOME | OUR FIXER UPPER UPDATE
07/05/2018
In just over a month, we will have lived in our “new” house for one year. After we closed on the house, I shared a blog post on how we ended up choosing this as our new home. It wasn’t what we had originally planned, but sometimes things turn out even better than planned. I thought I would share a status update on our fixer upper one year later. BEFORE This is what the house looked like when we purchased it. While it looked good far away in photos, it was actually in need of quite a few repairs. The old wood shake roof (what was left on the roof) was badly in need of replacing. Gutters with too few downspouts caused improper draining and rotted fascia. The landscaping was dying out due to over crowding. The basement leaked after a hard rain. Our home just needed a little...
Bath bombs can be expensive to buy. These easy DIY bombs look and work just as well as the...
Why not do double duty and DIY something not only useful but also pretty? I was needing pens for...
SPRING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL WINTER?
03/20/2018
It’s finally the first day of spring. You have no idea how much I’ve been looking forward to this day after a long, cold winter. I’m so ready to bring some light, bright spring touches into the house now that March has arrived! And with Easter just around the corner, time for Easter decor, too. Living in a fixer upper isn’t always the most fun but I decorate where I can. Seeing the cute spring/Easter touches make me happy even if the rest of the rooms have dated wallpaper or ripped out walls. Here is a little peek at this year’s spring greens and Easter touches around our home. What you can’t tell from this photo is the bench is up against a patched bare sheet rock wall where I removed the brown wallpaper because I couldn’t take the darkness anymore. Adding these fun touches makes me not notice...
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Whether your Valentines are little or big, this recipe would be the perfect treat made with love. Roll them...
Update on our home situation – after selling our home of 18 years last January, we originally had plans...
