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How to Paint French Doors

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, [...]

Repurposed Fence Post Wall Art

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 [...]

Kids’ Bedroom Reveal – Lots of Before and After Pictures!

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, [...]

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Party

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 [...]

Toybox in Primary Colors: Before and After

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 [...]

Our Changing Table Dresser: Before and After

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 [...]

Red Beds: Before and After

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, [...]

Robin’s Egg Blue Dresser: Before and After

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 [...]

Bedroom Construction = Finished Bathroom (finally!)

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 [...]

Kids Room: A New Blue Canvas!

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 [...]