February 17, 2012 in Making our House a Home
Yesterday, I showed you the walk-in closet behind these lovely doors…Today, let me tell you about the doors, themselves I found this set of french doors on Craigslist for $45.Since we bought used doors, they didn’t come with the door jam. So we made one ourselves. It wasn’t too tough, [...]
January 25, 2012 in Making our House a Home
This post has been featured! Our computer crashed yesterday. SO FRUSTRATING!!! Really makes me wish I had stood in line for one of those $200 laptops on Black Friday. But I didn’t. So here I am, at the public library with a wiggling baby on my lap trying to stay [...]
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 26, 2011 in Announcements
We like this book. In case you don’t have it memorized like I do, let me summarize: There is an egg on a leaf…*pop* now it is a very hungry caterpillar…he eats 1 apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, 4 strawberries, and 5 oranges on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday…he [...]
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 [...]
November 14, 2011 in Making our House a Home
This is the new changing table dresser that has finally made its debut in the kids’ room:This is what it looked like when I picked it up off the side of the road (it had been set out with the trash):I should have taken some close-ups to prove it, but [...]
June 28, 2011 in Making our House a Home
It was about three months ago that I first shared my plans for our kids room slash guestroom. Here is a quick recap….We decided to use the twin trundle bed set that my husband had as a child in this arrangement: …and to refinish them in a nice distressed red, [...]
June 21, 2011 in Making our House a Home
Remember this dresser from this post?Today it looks like this:And has a nightstand to match: Why do I always forget to take before pictures? This is the best I could do on the nightstand:We got the dresser at the Habitat for Humanity Warehouse. It was $75, which I actually think [...]
June 7, 2011 in Making our House a Home
By far the WORST part of DIY home projects is the way that they take over the rest of your home. You’d think you’d be able to isolate the mess, but I have determined that you can’t. There are several explanations for this phenomenon: 1. The stuff that once belonged [...]
April 5, 2011 in Making our House a Home
I am pleased to announce that the kids’ room slash guestroom is now blue! And the closet is also freshly painted white! I knew we already had some “before” pictures from when we first bought the house…but I didn’t realize until now how blurry they were. Oh well, they’ll have [...]
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