Below are the links to everything I could think of that we upgraded and added to the van to give it that homey feel we were looking for.[

Curtains – These were a DIY that I followed from The Happy Glamper and while sewing isn’t a strong suit of mine, I am really happy with how they turned out.

Cabinet and wall colors: The taupe color is Creamy Mushroom by Home Depot, and the white cabinets and white walls are Snowbound by Sherwin Williams

Countertops and backsplash– We used Ikea’s faux marble for the countertop and the coordinating marble panels for the backsplash. Because the bathroom marble countertop was a last-minute decision, we got that from Lowes since it came in the size we needed and was available.

Couch– We reupholstered the couch with fabric from Joanne Fabrics

Table– The tabletop is made from Ikea’s faux butcherblock that my husband cut to size, and then we used a table leg purchased from Amazon (linked above).

Hardware– Battle Creek Hardware – Code LADY will take 15% off regular priced items

Ottomans– Boutique Rugs- code LADY60 will take 60% off (Boutiquerugspartner)

Washable Rug– Boutique Rugs -(same code as above)

Bedding– All from Beddys – Code SHANNON takes 20% off

I hope I got everything! If not, just let me know and I will be sure to add it. We also immensely appreciated the encouragement and excitement shown as we completed this remodel; thank you for always being here!

<3 Shannon

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The first thing that needed to go was the white carpet, so we ripped that out and started with a clean slate.  We wanted the flooring in here to be different than the rest of the house to add some contrast but also wanted it to be very durable and stand up to any water problems that may occur in a laundry/mudroom. We also wanted something we could install ourselves so when we came across  RevoTile by Daltile that has Clicfit technology, we knew they’d be the perfect fit for our needs.

These tiles are designed to “click” together, which means you don’t need any mortar or thin-set! They also come pre-spaced so you don’t need spacers which takes away so much of the work. We really liked the look of THESE ones because of the concrete look they give, but they have a ton of options to choose from.

How to Install

Since the rest of our main floor was under construction, the baseboards were already removed, so just be sure to remove those first. Then, lay the Rapid Prep underlayment down (also from Daltile) and this helps with noise and any movement of the tile.

Then, tape it together using waterproof tape.

The next thing we needed to do was decide if we want the tiles offset in thirds or in half. What’s nice is that the tiles are already marked for you if you choose thirds. Laying the tiles out will help with this decision as you want to try and avoid any small slivers of tile around the perimeter if you can.

After doing a bunch of math (my husband, not me) we concluded if we laid the tiles in halves, we would have the edge tiles alternate at 9.5″ and just about a full tile, which we liked, so we decided to do halves.

First, my husband cut all of the pieces along the back wall and made sure they were perfectly straight. Once these are straight, then the subsequent rows will line up much easier. And, we got lucky with this piece around the corner making for easier cuts in the doorway. Remember, the baseboards will cover any of those gaps against the wall.

To put the tiles together, line the tongue of one tile up with the groove of the other at a 45-degree angle and slide into place.

To get tight, use a tapping block and hammer into place. To prevent movement of the other tiles, it helps to stand on the tiles surrounding it while tapping it in as you can see in the photo below.

For the edges, use a pull bar to hammer tight.

To cut around the vent, my husband first laid a tile on top of it and traced the lines of the vent.

He then scored the back edge with a grinder so that it’d break off easier.

Then, he cut each side with the wet saw and lightly tapped a hammer in the middle to break the pieces off. To get the jagged little edge off, he went back and forth with the wet saw until he got a clean line.

To cut the other little part of the vent, my husband scored these lines with the wet saw and then carefully tapped them off.

Once all the tiles were laid, it was time to grout! We watched the tutorial on Daltile’s website and used Daltile’s rapid grout, which is what you need for this kind of tile. My husband worked with baseball-sized amounts of grout and smushed it in the lines from all sides at a 45* angle. When finished with that amount, we used a wet rag to wipe clean before it dried so that we didn’t get any hazing on the tile. It worked well for my husband to grout, and for me to follow him to wipe all the excess off the tiles.

No grout…

Grouted and wiped!

We absolutely LOVE how this turned out! It gave the room a concrete feel, which is exactly what we were going for. In all, it took about an hour to grout this room for reference. And, we only needed to wait 24 hours for the grout to dry before being able to walk on it, which was an added bonus.

We really found the Daltile website helpful as they show you exactly how to install it as well as explain all of its benefits.

We have been using this room for about two months now and everything is holding up beautifully! There has been no movement of the tiles and we are so pleased with not only the look but how much easier the install process was compared to traditional tile, too.

As always, thank you for stopping by!

<3 Shannon

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The beadboard in the bathroom had warped pretty badly and was beyond repair, so the only thing left to do was to rip it out and start fresh. Once it was gone, we saw how badly the walls were and instead of replacing the walls/spending a lot of time patching numerous holes, we decided to cover it up.

My husband put up board and batten using PVC boards, which will help prevent any warping in the future, and the rest was just adding in some things to make it feel warm and inviting… as weird as that sounds for a bathroom. Ha! I have added those sources below!

As always, thank you for stopping by!

<3 Shannon

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We spent years saving up for and envisioning our new kitchen, and one of the main things we wanted was an open concept. The main floor was cut up with separate rooms for cooking and dining and with a wall separating the kitchen from the living room, the person cooking was always a little secluded. Our goal was to make it more inviting and family-oriented, somewhere all of us could be together when cooking, dining, and just living! Plus, I admit I was a little excited to change out the cabinets that came with our home that just weren’t my style.

So, we knocked out the wall separating our family room from the kitchen and completely relocated the kitchen to the back wall, thus opening the room up completely.

Before

(Our kitchen was on the other side of this wall)

After

(The load-bearing walls and pillars were supported with beams)

As mentioned above, we had been saving for quite some time for this remodel, but we still needed to save where possible to make it all happen. The cabinetry was one of the biggest costs of the whole remodel when we received the breakdown of our initial budget, so we started looking at other options that would hopefully still give us the look we were going for a fraction of the cost.

When my in-laws remodeled their home they did so with Ikea cabinets and had nothing but wonderful things to say about them and this is what first piqued our interest. I then had a couple of friends share they also had Ikea cabinets but swapped the Ikea fronts for a more custom look with Semihandmade fronts. I called one of my friends, picked her brain, and she gave me a video tour of her kitchen, and my husband and I watched in awe. This is exactly what we were looking for and would save us THOUSANDS.

Semihandmade specializes in making custom door fronts for Ikea cabinets. They solely work with Ikea so they have perfected the process down to a tee to make it as easy as possible. We were thoroughly impressed with how smoothly the process went and how they have figured out every last detail.

The Process: Designing the Kitchen with Ikea

–The first thing you want to do is schedule an appointment with Ikea in their Kitchen Planning department. Since we don’t live near an Ikea, we did all of our appointments virtually by screen-sharing and it was so nice to be able to do this from the comforts of our own home. The best part, it’s free! We started by giving Joshua, our planner, all of the measurements of our spaces so that he could input them into the program. This is something you want to be sure of, and if nervous and near an Ikea, you can pay $99 for someone from Ikea to come to your home and do the measuring for you. There is some flexibility as you can add filler pieces where necessary, but the fewer, the better! Next, they’ll input the measurements for all of your appliances so that they know exactly how much room they have to work with. Then, the fun part!

– Ikea has so many different options from standard doors to drawers of all sizes to extremely tall cabinets with pull-out drawers, to skinny spice drawers, and so on. So, the next part is choosing exactly what you want while your planner inputs each option into the program for you so you can see exactly how it is going to look. They can even show you exactly how it opens and what is inside if you choose a more intricate design! You are also able to play with the design yourself, but having someone who knows the program and every item Ikea offers right there at your fingertips (again, for free) is such a nice service. Our bases are from the Sektion line and someone had asked if I noticed an off-gassing odor when we opened them, and no, we didn’t.

Below is the design of the kitchen before I changed the back wall to all drawers. THE most common piece of advice I received was to have more drawers than cabinets, and we are so glad we listened! So, instead of the cabinets in the back, we have a corner cabinet on the left, then two 30″ drawers, then three 24″ drawers next to the stove, and the same design is mirrored on the right side of the stove.

In the pantry, we essentially have this exact layout, except last minute we decided to add a sink below the window, which also gave us room on either side of the sink for two skinny cabinets. And because Semihandmade can make a front to any specification, it was doable!

– Once happy with your design, the next step is to order your Ikea cabinets WITHOUT THE FRONTS. I repeat, make sure you order the bases without the fronts.  We ended up scheduling three appointments with Ikea before submitting our order. In the first appointment, we designed the kitchen, the second appointment the pantry, and the third we made any necessary tweaks and finalizations. Ikea is very familiar with Semihandmade, so we just asked our planner, Joshua, to take the fronts off of our order for us, and he did! You will then receive a PDF file of your entire order; save this! You will need it. 

-You can either have your kitchen delivered or if you need it sooner, you can pick it up in-store. While we don’t have an Ikea in our city, we do have one near us in Seattle and in Portland, and to ensure we would have everything on time (since everything is backed up these days) we decided to pick our order up. So, my husband drove there with our order sheet, rented a Uhaul, loaded it up, and drove back! It was so wild to see our kitchen in the back of a Uhaul!

The Process: Ordering the Semihandmade Fronts

Once you have your order placed with Ikea, you will then get in contact with Semihandmade to place your order for the fronts. They have SO many different styles, colors, and designs to choose from that you could really create just about any look. But looking back at all of my Pinterest boards, the most common look I had pinned was a combination of white and wood, so that is exactly what we went with. We chose the Supermatte White Shaker and Cove finish for our kitchen. If unsure how they will look in person, you can also order samples on their website.

Once you know exactly what you want, you will forward the PDF list you were given from Ikea to Semihandmade and they will make the fronts to fit your design.  It takes about 3-4 weeks for the order to be complete, and then about another week for them to ship. So, plan accordingly!

The fronts will arrive on a pallet and are packaged extremely well to ensure their safety.

Assembling the Boxes

Because we were having cabinets in our kitchen and pantry, we had a LOT of boxes and drawers to put together. To make it more manageable, my husband put them together in groups. The first few hours he put together the majority of the kitchen bases. Another day he spent a few hours on all of the pantry ones. Another day he worked on the drawers. It was a lot of work, but the savings were just so worth it. He used little pieces of painter’s tape to label each one so that each base was easy to identify come time to install. And once he put together a few, he got the hang of it and they went together faster. To give you an idea, one standard 30″ cabinet base took about 8 minutes to put together.

Install

We had our contractors install the cabinets to ensure everything fits as it should, and it was pretty straight-forward. They marked where each cabinet would go on the floor and on the walls and in they went! If working with a contractor, I would recommend having them help on this process as everything must be set right so that the countertops can then be placed correctly. Since sharing our journey with going this route I have heard from SEVERAL people who have done it themselves without a problem, but it was just nice for us with everything else going on to just have this portion done.

For the island, we used six cabinets (three 30″ on each side) so that we could maximize storage space. And because we wanted the sides of the island to match the fronts, we ordered extra panels that our finish carpenter could use to finish off the island.

Once the cabinets were installed and the island was finished, it was time to put the Semihandmade fronts on. Because these come labeled and pre-drilled, they went on so easily.

It still doesn’t quite feel real, that this kitchen is actually something that we get to keep and that this is our home. Going the Ikea/Semihandmade route saved us several ( I mean SEVERAL) thousand dollars and allowed us to get all of the features we were looking for. The amount of storage we have in this kitchen and pantry is absolutely incredible and the numerous options that Ikea offers to help organize the space make everything just so nice.

Hidden drawers, yes please! These not only help you make use of every inch of that drawer, but they help keep like-items together without being cluttered.

Another feature I appreciate so much is that the shelves are all adjustable so that you can customize them to fit your exact needs (not all of our cabinets were in our old kitchen)! And one of my very favorite features is that you can still choose a cabinet door style, but also have the convenience of a pull-out drawer so that you aren’t digging in the back of a cupboard into the unknown abyss.

The same thing goes for the corner units! They have a few options to choose from for corner cabinets and having the option for them to pull out like this just seemed so brilliant.

We designed our pantry to not only function to help us organize and store our kitchen essentials and food, but to also act as a utility closet; somewhere to store all of the things we didn’t have a good place for like batteries, toilet paper, etc. This has been SUCH a nice feature not only because it is extremely useful for us, but because it just looks so nice coinciding with the wall on the other side surrounding the fridge.

We made sure to include an outlet in one of the tall cabinets for our vacuum, and this is where that, the broom, and the mop are stored.

In the next set of cabinets we have paper towels, Clorox wipes, toilet paper, command strips/hooks, air fresheners, light bulbs, sewing kit, cleaning towels, beach towels, batteries/flashlights, paper goods, a “random” drawer, extra coffee mugs, our table linens, extra trash bags/Ziplocks/, spare grocery bags, and I am sure I snuck in a few extra random things, too! Finally, all these things have a home!

We are SO in love with our kitchen and still can’t quite grasp that it’s here to stay. I just LOVE how easy Ikea and Semihandmade have made it in designing, ordering, and obtaining our dream kitchen. Everything is so easy to clean (wipe down with a damp cloth) and just looks completely custom. We now have so much storage that we have a few empty drawers and that is something I am NOT complaining about!  We would not have been able to achieve the design we were after if we didn’t go this route and we are just so pleased with how it all turned out. This is the kitchen of our dreams!

As always, thank you for stopping by!

<3 Shannon

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But! While things still may shift here and there, we are feeling really good about things, and being able to live and work in the new kitchen has been an absolute dream.

I have broken all sources down into three categories to hopefully help you find items easier if looking for a specific one.

Kitchen sources and decor:

The counter stools are from HERE.

Useful items in the kitchen:

Items to help organize the kitchen:

To learn all about our Ikea cabinets with Semihandmade fronts, go HERE!

I am working on blog posts about our tile, but in the meantime, it’s all from Dal-tile and can be found  HERE! This includes the countertops, kitchen and pantry backsplash, and the tile in our mudroom.

I have spent a long time searching for the right items for our kitchen. I looked at prices, how it functions, the quality of it, and so on, so I hope the above picture lists are helpful for you!

As always, thank you for stopping by!

<3 Shannon

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The sources with a little star next to them (*) are similar, but not the exact same as I either had them custom made, found them at an antique fair, or they’re sold out.

(Click each coordinating number for the source)

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10

1. These sconces come as a plug-in, but we cut the cord since, in our living room, they’re just for decoration and to fill an empty space. We will be hanging them soon!
2. This is the new fixture I just got for our guest bathroom.
3. These are our kitchen pendants over the island; they’re currently out of the black, which is why the gold is pictured. The ones we have are the 24″.
4. The sconces in our kitchen
5. The sconces in our living room on our built-ins
6. The sconces we just got for the stair wall
7. The sconces in our laundry room and my daughter has these in her room as well
8. This pendant is similar to the one in our mudroom- the one I have I got at a vintage fair
9. The lighting above the mirror in our master bathroom
10. This chandelier is similar to the one in our living room- but the one we have I had made by a welder here in Spokane- to see how it was made, you can click HERE for that blog post. The original design is from Restoration Hardware, but I wanted to save money where I could, so I hired it out to be made. The one linked is cheaper than the RH one.

As always, thank you for stopping by!

<3 Shannon

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We are smack-dab in the middle of our kitchen remodel and it’s time to narrow down what hardware we’d like for our kitchen cabinets. Because we have a mix of white and oak cabinets, we think black hardware will tie everything together nicely, plus give that contrast we are looking for.

I polled my Instagram buddies on what hardware they have tried and loved and have included as many of those as I could! I appreciate those of you that shared your beautiful homes with me and what you purchased for your own kitchens! Below is a compilation of more than 50 options for cabinets and drawers; I think we’ve got a winner in there somewhere for our own home and I hope you find this helpful if you, too, are on the hunt!

A couple of other great sites that I am unable to link to but that should still be noted are below!

Battlecreek Hardware 

The Hardware Hut 

I have a few samples on the way, and once we make a final decision I will be sure to update this post! As always, thank you for stopping by!

<3 Shannon

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“Uhhhhh…. I didn’t know anyone wanted to?!”

Halloween was never a holiday I previously decorated for. I didn’t own a single Halloween decoration and since it was never brought up, I just didn’t! I think I was more into focusing on decorating for the Fall season, but knowing that desire was there in my little ones changed things for me this year.

So while the kids were at school one day, my husband and I started decorating for Halloween and seeing their faces the moment they got home and laid their eyes upon their very own haunted house is a moment I truly hope to never forget.

Sources

6.5′ spiders

4 pack of spiders

Spider web (includes a spider)

How I hung the spiders 

Skeletons

Witches hats – I hung the witches hats with fishing line and clear push pins

Skeleton bats – Joanne Fabrics when on sale

Black bats 

Skulls – The Dollar Tree

Rats- The Dollar Tree

Witches brooms-thrift store

Remote Candles- Costco on sale

I have to admit, I REALLY enjoyed decorating for Halloween this year and I think we’ve started a new tradition! Our kids are at the ages where Halloween is still really fun for them all, so I am trying to not only remember that but to relish in it, too.

As always, thanks for stopping by!

<3 Shannon

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My daughter and I had a free afternoon during nap time this past weekend, so we decided to do a craft together, and decided on making a Fall Magnolia leaf garland. It was inexpensive to make, easy to do, and we both love how it can be used in various places. Here is how we did it!

Materials:

12 pieces of felt – (I chose three in each of the colors below, all found at Joanne’s. They were also on sale for 3/$1.)

Approximately 3/4″- 1″ thick piece of ribbon – I just bought a spool of ribbon and didn’t cut it until we were done.

Hot glue gun and sticks

Pencil

Paper (to draw stencil on- mine is already cut below.)

Scissors

Directions:

1. Draw a leaf on your piece of paper with a flat bottom, approximately 5″ long.
2.  Trace your leaf onto the felt with the pencil. I was able to get 7 leaves per piece of felt, and used a pencil so that marker edges couldn’t be seen if not cut perfectly straight. I ended up tracing the leaves on the felt while my daughter cut them out, and I joined her cutting once I finished tracing.

3. Next, place a large dot of glue on the bottom of the leaf and pinch the two corners together to create a 3D leaf shape, and continue doing this to the rest of the leaves.

4. Unroll your ribbon and begin gluing the leaves to it, alternating sides and staggering each leaf down a little bit.

And that’s it! Once finished, your garland will be approximately 7′ long and will likely fit across your dining room table or draped over a sign.

This craft cost us around $6 to make with all discounts going on at Joanne’s and was a perfect little bonding activity for my daughter and me. Plus, I think it turned out so cute!

As always, thanks for stopping by!

<3 Shannon

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I recently found myself unexpectedly stopping by Homegoods, which lead me to unexpectedly bringing home ELEVEN pillows that I didn’t know I needed. Isn’t that how it always happens?! Shoot.

I ended up sharing where I put those pillows on my Instagram stories, and many of you wanted sources! Because I found them all at Homegoods, I wasn’t able to find exact matches, but I was able to get pretty darn close!

So below are 20 pillow options that I think work well for the Fall season, many of which could also work for other seasons, too. And many of them are VERY close to the ones in our home, so I hope this helps those of you who are on the hunt!

If you know of any other Fall pillows you think would work well with this bunch, be sure to let me know and I will add them to the list!

As always, thanks for stopping by!

<3 Shannon

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