Our house was built with a formal dining room; one that we never used as such. We just aren’t formal dining people and so the room has been an unused space since we’ve lived here. Mainly, it’s been a catch-all. With it being right next to the front door, this has always been a little […]
Category: DIY
Two summers ago we decided to rebuild our back deck, and I have slowly been adding decor to it here and there ever since. I knew I wanted some sort of hanging planters out there, but wasn’t finding the right ones, or, they were just too expensive. So, I decided to make my own, and […]
Gosh, looking back, the exterior of our house come a long way! It’s funny, we never used to think our house looked “hidden” until we started taking out bushes and thorny shrubs, which lead to taking out more bushes and shrubs, which lead to eventually taking them all out. Be gone! We initially took out […]
Since moving into our home, we’ve always planned on remodeling the kitchen, which is an extension of our dining room. Because of this, it has never been a place I have put much effort into it knowing one day it would all be demolished. It’s actually been a pretty good overflow area of all things […]
On a whim, I decided to paint the fireplace in our dining room. It’s a fireplace we normally don’t use very often (we have another in the living room) because truthfully, we don’t use this dining room very much. And the reason is that eventually, it’s all going to be ripped out and replaced […]
It’s funny how one project can quickly lead to another, which can lead to another, which can lead to another. After completing our DIY built-ins (post HERE) it left our buffet without a home. So, I rearranged some furniture a little bit and put it in our dining room. In doing that, I then had […]
This DIY project is one of my very favorites. A little outside-the-box. A little risky (that’s a lot of nail holes!). And, possibly time-consuming. But, I knew it would make a statement, so I went for it! And friends, I cannot take any of the credit for creativity here, as I saw this idea from […]
As I wrote about in THIS post, we decided to build built-ins on a complete whim. So much of a whim that I didn’t even get a chance to take any true before photos. (FAIL!) The two photos below are super old photos I happened to find that kind-of show the wall we wanted to build […]
Just over two weeks ago I sat in our living room staring at our huge blank wall and randomly asked my husband what he thought about building built-ins for that large space. We have vaulted ceilings in our living room with light-colored walls, so one of the first things my husband did when we moved […]
Hi friends! On a whim, my husband and I decided to build a very large structure in our living room, and it is looking like it was always meant to be there! Since we were taking away two chairs in order to make room for this, we decided to incorporate a bench for extra seating. After researching bench […]
