Painted door hardware
Finally getting around to showing you how easy it is to spray paint door hardware, saving you a lot of money if you want to change the look of your front door. Remove the hardware from your door (this can be done professionally or by someone with some know...
New house colors!
Here is the way our house looked a few weeks ago. It desperately needed some new paint. The existing paint, even when cleaned was fading and had patches all over it from rot that we fixed on the siding. The white trim and railing was dingy so it cried...
Door Stencil
Now that the back door was put in, I spruced it up a little bit with some stenciling. The section right under the glass got this square motif wit the letter “P’ in the middle. I used a Martha Stewart stencil from Michaels and champagne colored...
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,...
Gray Matters
We are true DIYers at heart, but this time around it was time to call on a friend to help. I decided to go for gray cabinets on the bottom half of the kitchen. For many reasons, but the main one being function. The white was getting too figerprinty (I know...
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
