Vintage Blanket Rack
When something lands on your doorstep for you to see, that’s not exactly your cup of tea, you work with what you got, especially if it was free! Oh Yeah, I can rhyme too. A lovely neighbor of mine was giving away some things and I immediately saw...
Painted Nursery Bookshelf
Little bookshelves like this are all over craigslist. Just look in the furniture section under your city. This little number was $20 bones and the perfect size for E.claire’s space in her nursery. Here it is all finished. Here is the bookcase when I...
Girl’s dress up station
With all of the spooky posts lately I thought I would add a pretty one in here now. I made this dress up station for my daughter. One day while purusing my local Habitat for Humanity restore (I sometimes like to wander through there for inspiration for my next...
French gray dining chairs
One of the time consuming projects I’ve done recently was painting our 6 dining room chairs from craiglist. About two years ago we found some cherry wood Queen Anne chairs for our dining room table for $200 total. They initially were upholstered in a maroon,...
Bookshelf Stencil
One of the stencil’s I also won from Young House Love’s giveaway was Royal Design Studio’s Eastern Lattice. One Evening when I was incredibly bored and the kids were asleep I applied it my bookshelf in the living room. First I applied some...
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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
