I happened to see this little toy chest on FB Marketplace last weekend for $30!  Now, I wasn’t necessarily looking for a toy chest, but my youngest has been using his older brother’s hand-me-down toy bins and they were always overfilled and never looked organized (when the bins weren’t falling down altogether from too many […]

There are some good things to be said about having multiple projects going on all at once.  First, you have some variety so if it’s raining, you can work on something inside, or if you’re stuck on what to do next, you can step back and take a break from that particular project.  Another good […]

I finished this project over a week ago, and love the difference in the before & after! This is the project I decided to try making my own chalk paint for. That was not a great process, but since it’s the first time I’ve tried it, I’m sure it will get better with practice! I’ve […]

For most of this past week, I’ve felt frustrated because I haven’t gotten much of anything done when it comes to the house, projects, blog posts, etc., but, in reality, this past week was more about just being ‘mom’. We’ve celebrated both boys birthdays (their birthdays are only 4 days apart) with small cakes and […]

I’ve been working on and off on a piece about our kitchen reno and FINALLY finished it! Our kitchen took just over a year of working on and off, here and there, as we had the time and energy to do it, and we finally finished it this past fall. We did all the work […]

Out of all the project pieces I’ve picked up in the last week or so, I decided to get the biggest one out of the way first, so in the last few days I finished up the secretary/shelf piece we picked up. Maybe, if I get some of these smaller projects out of the way, […]

Does anyone else struggle with getting projects completed?? I try so hard to stay on task, trying to stay with the ‘finish one room at a time’, but one thing leads to another and then I’m off on a whole other project:) What started as a simple task of searching for some décor/display items for […]

When I started writing a piece about our kitchen renovation, I realized this little window slider really deserved it’s own post. What started as a basic need to cover an open shelf became a way to tie in a piece of our 140 year old house to be functional and on display at all times […]

Some days it seems like I just have no motivation to get anything done. Yesterday was one of those days….I guess just being tired or having a million plans in my head that I want to do, but knowing that there are little details I still need to finish on other projects before I can […]

After some recent questions on installing our hardwood floors, I was inspired to add an update to the site all about our process for installing our bamboo hardwood floors throughout the first floor of our house about a year and a half ago. Installing bamboo is not much different than any other hardwood, but the […]