Inspiration: French Boudoir
My partner in my Interior Design course is having me design her Master Bedroom or what she likes to call her “Boudoir.” She wants a romantic, pretty, french look. Her favorite colors are green and purple. She said the room that is right off of...
Inspiration: Daughter’s room
This is week 3 of my Interior Design course at the local community college. Our class project is to partner with someone in the class and design a room for them. We will be presenting our design during the final day of class. I will be designing a...
Keep Calm
It never hurts to change up your art in your house every now and again so it doesn’t get borning. I loved my art print from my brother, but it was time for a little change. Here is the main wall in the “craft room/eat-in-kitchen. It’s supposed to be...
Operation, clear the counters Part 2
We are on a roll! Cleaning up the kitchen counters feels so good. Here again is a shot of our microwave when it was living on our counters. You were probably wondering what we did with the phone since I didn’t mention it before. Well it got...
Operation, clear the counters
If you noticed from yesterday’s post our kitchen is looking a lot more tidy and less cluttered. Well once the cabinets started getting paint, I realized our counters could use a little organizing as well. Here is the corner in our kitchen where our...
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...Inspiration: One Kings Lane
One Kings Lane has some pretty awesome decor for your home. Right now I’m digging these things. Interlock Teal 22″ Ottoman $199.00 Wolfeboro Wall Lantern $79.00 Zigzag 20×20 Outdoor Pillow, Blue $79.00 Gate 20×20 Outdoor Pillow, Gray $65.00...
Gray samples
White cabinets are great and all, but they just aren’t working for our busy kitchen, at least not on the bottom half. After seeing some images of two toned kitchens where the bottom cabinets are painted differently than the top cabinets I decided to give...
Bathroom towel storage
More bathroom updates! Yay! Here we have our old towel holder. I wanted to try something different, so I took it down with my screw driver. It left a nice little circle of old paint. I tried hanging this piece of art with little hooks for towels. But I...
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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
