January 17, 2012 | Home Improvements, Painting projects
After living with a pink dining room for a while (all our doing) we decided it was time we blend the formal dining room in with the hallway and make it a neutral color. We chose Valspar’s Blizzard Fog in an Interior Satin Latex. We had just finished...
January 4, 2012 | Fabric projects, Home Improvements
It was very appropriate that we finally got some privacy sheers in our house. We’ve gotten several comments from friends and neighbors that they love all of our windows in our house, but it really did leave us feeling quite vulnerable when it came to...
November 16, 2011 | Furniture Makeovers, Home Improvements
A few week’s ago we inherited a hand made (by her parents in the 60’s) desk from our lovely neighbors who didn’t have a use for it anymore. It’s a beautiful wood stained desk with one drawer and a pull out side table. We weren’t...
November 15, 2011 | Home Improvements, Painting projects, Woodwork projects
Ever since the boy’s old bookcase went kaputs we desperately needed a way to store books in their room. They have a ton of books since they love to read and don’t mind a new story every day. Here are the book shelves we built for them: We had the...
November 14, 2011 | Bedroom makeovers, Fabric projects, Home Improvements
In our master bedroom we are limited with the space in there and we used to have a closet door that we kept open all the time (it was easier this way and it let the clothes “breathe.”) Because it would bump into the vanity table we literally kept it opened...
November 7, 2011 | Home Improvements, How to's
One of the many little projects we tackled this weekend included installing a dimmer switch in our formal dining room. We use our formal dining room for every meal, since our eat-in-kitchen nook has been transformed into a craft center. The lighting in the...