May 15, 2012 in Making our House a Home
It was quite a while ago that I wrote this post, outlining everything that was wrong with the bathroom which is now a part of our home’s Master Suite. When I revealed our Master Bedroom, I was quite intentional about leaving the bathroom door closed: for the bathroom was still [...]
April 13, 2012 in Making our House a Home
This is our desk: It is a very nice quality set of furniture that was a part of my husband’s bedroom set as a young boy. I was happy to discover that it “came with” my husband when I married him…because we have gotten a lot of use out of [...]
February 23, 2012 in Making our House a Home
This post has been featured! Yesterday, I showed you the King-Size Pottery Barn Stratton Bed Knock-Off that we built.Today, let me tell you more about the bedding. I know there aren’t as many layers of blankets or throw pillows as the Pottery Barn catalog boasts of. This is a very [...]
February 22, 2012 in Making our House a Home
This post has been featured! When I first posted our plans and inspiration for our Master Bedroom renovation, I showed you this bed, The Pottery Barn Stratton Bed, and shared that we intended to make our own. Usually, it is pictured with an uholstered headboard like this one (we decided [...]
February 16, 2012 in Making our House a Home
It was one year ago yesterday that I posted this post about our basement bedroom: what it looked like when we moved in, the way we had been using it up until then, and the things about it that just weren’t working for us anymore. A few weeks later, I [...]
February 8, 2012 in Announcements
I have recently started “partying”…at other blogger’s link parties, that is. It has been fun! (A link party is where one blogger hosts a “party” and other bloggers are able to “link up” their posts. There are LOTS of parties going on in the blog world …with hundreds of post [...]
January 30, 2012 in Made by Mom
I painted this dresser the summer before I started college to use in my dorm room, and used it through my senior year. It started out all dark brown…with a layer of wall paper stuff that pretends to look like wood. I am not sure where it came from. Here [...]
January 17, 2012 in Making our House a Home
Last week, I shared before and after pictures of what is now our kids room slash guestroom. However, I didn’t share what was under the beds or behind those closet doors.The practical “usability” of the bedrooms in our home was what initiated our big bedroom swap around in the [...]
January 10, 2012 in Making our House a Home
This Post Has Been Featured! -:- The Kids’ Room was the first bedroom we finished up as a part of our “Big Bedroom Swap Around” …kind of ironic since it was the one I was having the hardest time making decisions about. We actually finished and photographed it last September, [...]
November 22, 2011 in Making our House a Home
Last week, I shared some before and after pictures of the kids’ new dresser and changing table top…today, let me show you the coordinating toybox…This toybox is one of several fabulous furniture items we got from Grammy Sammy when she decided to downsize to smaller home at about the same [...]
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