If you want to make a statement in a room or with a piece of furniture, changing out hardware like drawer pulls and knobs can make a big impact. Or adding them in the first place helps too! In my opinion, if something needs to be opened and closed, it needs a knob! Knobs on […]
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White Trim, Dark Paint -> Why I’m Going Dark With My Doors
When we were buying our new house, there was so much that I loved about it – the very open floor plan, architectural features like rounded walls, floor to ceiling windows in the living room, giant kitchen island, tall ceilings ranch, mostly. But, everything was blah. Same orangey-beige everywhere, boring light fixtures, cheap-looking fixtures … […]
How To Paint Trim Like a Boss
Is your “white” trim actually white? Before we moved into this house, I thought the trim was white. Then, we discovered the leaking washing machine three weeks after moving in and reconstruction started. During all the repairs, new baseboards needed to be painted. That’s when I figured out the current baseboards were more pink than […]
Kitchen Transformation in Progress {Renovation Update Phase 3}
It’s been a little while since an update on all the renovation happening around here. Things have just been so exciting with the Holidays and start of the Declutter Challenge and well, construction going on. All of this happened before Thanksgiving and before Flood #2 (I can laugh about it now). The timing of updating […]
Water Lalapalooza #2 (Yep, Number TWO)
Last week we were in Disney World. It was a much needed break for all of us and the kids were in heaven. (There is a story behind little man not matching in this photo, but I don’t want to go into gross details like that.) The night before we left for our Magical trip, […]
Renovation: Wall Repair, Wood Floor Progress, and Tile Goes Down (Phase 2)
You can tell from the photos that some of these renovations were happening simultaneously with Phase 1 – I loved that everything was happening so fast! Phase 2 involves Repairing Walls, Progress on the Wood Floor, and Tile! This was at the start of ripping up the wood floor – take a look at that water-ruined […]
Renovation: Materials Chosen and Painting Started (Phase 1)
Remember my Water Lalapalooza 2016 post? If you didn’t see that, I’ll summarize by saying that we had some water damage thanks to a missing washer on the hose of our washing machine. We took the list of repairs paid for by our home insurance and used the chance to add some upgrades. These were things on my […]
New House BEFORE Pictures (Finally!)
We moved furniture into this house on Labor Day weekend. In celebration of a month living in our new house in Texas, I thought I’d share the pictures I took the day before the furniture arrived. I call these the “before” pictures. Of all the homes I looked at, I chose this house, so obviously […]
Water Lalapalooza 2016
I just told you earlier this week that I had lots of plans of things to get done this week, but I got a little sidetracked to say the least. I also wanted to write a blog post about choosing paint colors, because there are lots of walls around here full of paint sample blobs […]
Collage Wall – REVEAL!!!
Well, it might not be everyone’s taste, but I absolutely love it. Every time I walk past it or see it, I get a little jolt of happiness. Beautiful things sing to me. Happy. Colorful. Pictures of my favorite people. Just right to me. Here are the links to all the posts about this wall […]