This post is in partnership with World Market, a brand I love. All opinions here are my own. I don’t know about you, but my deck and backyard were looking pretty drab after spending a cold, dreary winter cooped up inside with a newborn! It’s the last place I want to hang out now that…
A Realistic Fireplace Makeover: Part 2
In this post, let’s talk about how to build a brand new mantel from scratch or really from MDF. To bring you up to speed, in Part 1 of the Fireplace makeover, we shared the design and demo process and how to lay tile. The next step in the process was to build a new…
A Realistic Fireplace Makeover: Part I
This will be a two part series about how we made over our fireplace. But first, I’m going to divulge the secrets that other bloggers and any show on HGTV or DIY network leave out. Doing house projects suck. They aren’t always easy, and they NEVER go according to plan. Both of us have full time jobs. We…
Kitchen Remodel – Finished!
Wow, this post has been A LONG TIME coming!! Sorry guys!! Life gets in the way sometimes. So our kitchen has been mostly done for over a year now and WE LOVE IT! There are still days when we have to pinch ourselves because this is our dream kitchen and it’s just unbelievable that it’s the…
Chairish Blogger Challenge: Decorate from White to Bright
This post is inspired by Chairish.com‘s September Blogger Challenge, which was to envision and decorate a space using one of their accent chairs. You can click that link to peruse their entire collection of unique, vintage chairs available. They’ve got some really cool, different pieces and then some gorgeous colorful, traditional ones like this beautiful French blue…
One Way Out : The Front Door Conundrum
We have been slacking on blogging lately. There’s a couple of reasons for that. One being personal, Kara’s sister & her husband have been dealing with some health issues and the family has been pitching in here and there to help (hey, it’s what family does). It’s been a rocky road and any prayers or…
Kitchen Remodel – Design Time – Counter Tops
Shopping for counter tops was also a labor of love and quite surprising. The bargain shopper in me wanted to find a good deal, but the reality set in as I realized that the price for stone is the price for stone. Bummer! The same type of granite or marble was roughly the same price…
Kitchen Remodel – How we got here
We are in the thick of a home and kitchen remodel right now, as in trying to quickly lay floor down in half of our downstairs before cabinets get installed. So I thought it was about time to do a kitchen remodel post or two or four. 🙂 Bear with me because this post may…