Welcome Sweet Friends! We’re inviting you to our Christmas home tour! If you’re an old (and dear) friend, you know to kick your shoes off at the door, not because we’re at all fussy but because this is a bare-footin’ kind of house. If you’re new, we’re glad to have
Like most builder-basic houses, our house has a concrete slab we’ll call a “porch.” It wasn’t doing much for me and it certainly wasn’t holding up to my idea of a porch. I’ve always dreamed of having a classic wood planked porch so we played around with the idea of
Want to learn a secret that writers know that will make you a better decorator? A good story shows rather than tells. How does that apply to decorating? Well, if you’re like me and you live in a builder-basic house that started off with beige walls, oak cabinets and uninspired
Alright, raise your hand if you’re afraid of power tools. Go ahead. Don’t be shy. You’re afraid you are going to cut your hand off, right? I am slowly overcoming my fear of losing appendages in the name of design and quite frankly, I’m on a mission to do more
I had a pergola at my old house. My dad and I built it together when he was in the middle of treatment for lymphoma. He wanted to do this project with me because I think he knew it would probably be our last project together. I loved my
When you’re renovating with a two-year-old and five-year-old underfoot, you might as well throw your timeline for finishing a project out the window. Take for instance our master bathroom, which had been sorely neglected up until this spring. I’m talking sorely neglected, friends. Beige walls that Ada had decided to