New Back Door
As part of repainting the house exterior, the door and frame would get repainted. However, it’s a fairly old (original house?) steel door, with dents, scratches, and nicks all over. Furthermore, there’s a fair amount of rot on both sides of the jamb,...
Pinterest Challenge Summer ’12
It’s baaaack! The fun Pinterest Challenge hosted by blogger goddesses Katie from Bower Power and Sherry over at Young House Love. This one snuck up on me, but luckily I was able to create something in a just a few hours. For the past couple of weeks...
Charcoal Gray Curtains
My entry way finally has some new drapes, to replace those dark black and white damask drapes that hung before the stripes were painted. The black and white wasn’t working anymore. And frankly my first choice would have been to replace them with fresh and...
Mirror collage art
Our entry way-mirror was looking a little dated and sad after hanging up with the same photos from our wedding reception back in ’03. Wow, can’t believe it’s almost been 9 years! And since it was coming down off the wall for our gray and white...
Gray Stripes on the wall
One of my posts last week showed some inspiration photos for Gray stripes on the wall. I jumped right on the idea because I loved it so much. I decided to paint them in my entry way/hallways because the walls were already white, so adding gray stripes would be the way...
Hi, welcome to our pad!
Follow two DIYers as we decorate, redecorate, design, beautify, demo, install, fix, and remodel the interior and exterior of our second home. We've learned a lot from remodeling our first home and now we are applying this know-how to our second home. Hope you enjoy our site!
xo, Cathy
