Art ledge
Creating an “art ledge” in your child’s room, or any room for that matter is super easy. All you need are long pieces of wood trim from your local hardware store, a hammer, and some nails. For our son’s room the length of the wall was...
DIY headboard
Last weekend I sold my white bed seen here. Bye Bye Bed, I’ll miss ya! But to make up for it, I made a 567% profit. Woot Woot. Anyway, I now had $100 in my pocket to make a headboard for our king size bed. The first step was to determine...
My Grandpa lives on
What to my wondering eyes should appear, but two old wooden skeleton keys seen here: I just say the word, and the word being that I’m looking for old skeleton keys, and my glorious Mom finds these two in my Grandma and Grandpa’s house. They are...
Octagonal mirror
When I found a huge octagonal mirror on Craigslist for $10 I knew I wanted it over my fireplace. Originally it was practically falling out of a big silver frame, so we re-framed it with trim pieces. Here is the after photo once we hung it. You can read more...
Super Toddler vs. drawer. Toddler wins.
This is how we like our kitchen drawers to look: And this is how our drawer looked after a bout with our super-strong toddler: Several of the drawer fronts are loose because they’re mostly particle board, with wood facades. Years of tugging and...
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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
