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
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
Welcome back to Part 2 of our DIY project — stereo to bar! When we left off in our previous post, I had shown a photo of what the stereo looked like after a coat of chalk paint and the shiplap stained and attached: As mentioned in the first post,
Converting this old stereo to bar, was definitely a labor of love and probably one of the hardest and time-consuming project I have ever tackled. I speak for myself and not for Amanda, but I learned a ton and I think all the time invested was definitely worth it. This
My latest obsession is making bath bombs. It’s one of those things I saw often on Pinterest, especially when searching “homemade gifts” and the like. I made a couple of batches this weekend and I kid you not — my son needed a gift for a young lady for her
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