~favorite stains~ Today I am sharing my favorite wood stains for wood projects. Wood stains are like a relationship; it takes time to figure out the stains that work with your existing furniture, trims and projects. Some look good on a scrap piece of wood only to take on an entirely different hue with a different grain of [Read more…]
Favorite Open Shelving Ideas to Replace Upper Cabinets
~ open shelving ideas….. Today I am sharing my favorite open shelving ideas. A year ago I would never have considered open shelving. It’s so .. well.. open; exposing my crap, dust and well more crap! I really don’t want friends to see my lip stained glassware. But, the more time researched spent on décor sites, the more I loved the [Read more…]
Bathroom Remodel Project Reveal
~ bathroom remodel started with paint~ The title of this post should be, “Kids the toilet flushes!” This bathroom remodel project started the week of Thanksgiving when I decided it was a slow week and a good time to test out paint colors on our basement bathroom wall. The intention was to JUST change the [Read more…]
DIY Curtain Rods with Plumbing Pipes
Hi everyone- I am super excited to show off this DIY hardware for my basement window treatments. We used plumbing parts! Yep, $15.00 in parts from Home Depot. As you may know we are close to finishing our basement bath remodel. And, remodels of one space turn into updates to the rest of the basement. [Read more…]
Updated Basement Accessories for Under $100.00
décor Hi everyone – I am so excited to share this updated basement family room area. Here is the basement space this winter. This basement space doesn’t know if it wants to be a contemporary football viewing space or a mountain rental décor space. Seriously, it is the room for misfit furniture and accessories. Check out the painting over the fireplace; [Read more…]
Industrial Light Fixture
Some of you have heard about our basement DIY bathroom demolition. It was kicked off when my gray paint samples clashed with the existing shower tiles. This is our bathroom in March. The demo started the week of Christmas. Yep because nothing says crazy like mom taking a sledge hammer to the tile while the Christmas [Read more…]
DIY Barn Doors
~ diy ~ Hi there- a few weeks ago I got an email from KariAnne over at ThistleWood Farms who really liked my DIY barn door project and wanted to share it on her weekly Thistlekeeping series. She stumbled upon my barn door project while finding ideas for her future project. So I freaked! Karianne has like 1 million [Read more…]
I think my husband has male pattern BLINDness…
In an effort to help me last week, my {first} husband offered to run a few errands for me in between lax practice for my boys. I knew this request was tricky, but I figured how hard can it be to pick up something at IKEA? You know where this is headed, right? So, I asked if he could [Read more…]
Removing Interior Shutters:
One of the things we loved about our house was the custom shutters. They were beautiful and were such an upgrade from anything we had ever had in a window window. And, then a funny thing happened last summer… I was at a neighbor’s house and she had wide open windows looking into her backyard. [Read more…]
Entry Space from Garage.
Hi all- I describe my house as a brownstone in the suburbs. Lots of levels, lots of stairs. My boys love to stand on the top floor and drop anything down 4 levels to hit to the lowest level. I have been know to drop a few items when no one is looking! So my [Read more…]
A look at nooks …. and where mine is going…..
I am obsessed with nooks! Reading, sleeping, snacking…. whatever. I’m not picky! My {first} husband gets nervous when he sees me hovering over my tablet on Pinterest. He knows it means he is giving up a Saturday! These photos are what have me pinning! Scroll to bottom to see where I want my our nook. [Read more…]
Organize the book shelves
Footnote: But at the beginning of the post. This post has been in the works for weeks until I found myself laptop-less for two weeks. More on that headache later. So, a few weeks ago I posted about the balls in our basement! Ping pong balls all over the carpet. The balls had invaded my [Read more…]
DIY BARN DOORS
Hi Everyone- I am so excited to share my DIY barn door project. I researched this project for over a year before getting my {first} husband on board! I envisioned these DIY barn doors in our basement; finished by the previous owners when they built the house. It was a nice basement, but the builder grade white doors didn’t go with the industrial [Read more…]
