Welcome to our second installment of kitchen island building where we can officially stick a fork in the island-building project, or more like stick a fork in the delicious upside-down lemon meringue pie that’s freshly baked and sitting on top of the island. To catch up, we first revealed our finished, rustic wood kitchen island … Read more
First of all, major thanks to everyone who showed us love on our newly completed kitchen island. We’re absolutely in love with it and have even noticed a significant shift in the amount of cooking we do with such a large, open surface to work on. We even keep the kitchen cleaner! Who knew?! A … Read more
Last week we had one of those triumphant moments. The kind where you feel like Mr. Rocky Balboa at the top of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s lengthy stone stairs, fist pumping and whatnot, because you accomplished something monumental. I can hear Eye of the Tiger playing now as I think about that house project … Read more
Look for the blue moon, folks, look who is posting two blog posts in one week! Don’t get used to it…although…I’m aiming to write more so maybe you should get used to it. I have so…many…projects…done..that just need photographing and writing up. Plus, I still have yet to finish all the before/after posts from our … Read more
Last week, Colby and I were having a fairly normal evening, eating dinner and recounting the events of the workday. Just before I was about to seriously chow down on the most delicious burger ever to come off a grill, Colby whips this out, “By the way, we got a letter today from Efficiency Vermont … Read more
Hello friends! How are you all doing tonight (or this morning or afternoon…depending on when you’re reading this)? We’re coming off one of those glorious weekends. You know the kind where you just putter around the house, no crazy long to-do lists, and you just do whatever you want when you want. For me, that … Read more
Craft room table frame built from recycled barn wood from our farmhouse property and table top built from old shelves.
I feel like kind of a jerk talking about our dining room makeover and the plans for that makeover (which is tonight’s long overdue blog post topic). For our friends and family who have been to our house recently, like at Sunday’s Super Bowl fete, you know where we stand in this makeover process and … Read more
DIY wrapping paper storage rack from scrap wood and creating a wrapping station in a craft room.
It’s been a little while since I’ve written. I wish I could say it’s because I’ve been busy crafting the next great American novel, hanging out in Kathmandu waiting to lead an Everest expedition, or en route to Hawaii for an Ironman competition. No…none of those things are happening. Shocking, I know. No…I’ve gotten sucked … Read more
Back in November, just before Thanksgiving rolled around, I told a tale of how we accumulated all of our appliances (for the kitchen and laundry room) for much lower than sticker price. It’s a good story. I’ll pause for a moment while you read it….pausing for dramatic effect…I know, crazy right?! But we never really … Read more
Around the first of January circa 2014, I came up with a word of the year instead of resolutions. I don’t believe in resolutions. Mostly because I never stick to them. Maybe for a month but never long enough to affect change. But I could do a word of the year. A word that would … Read more
Merry Christmas y’all! Okay…so it’s more like merry (belated) Christmas but better late than never. This year for Christmas, I made it my mission to “do Christmas with reckless abandonment” since last year our Christmas celebrations and festivities were cut short (or nonexistent) because I was living in Vermont working at my new job while … Read more
This is awful. I had to stop and think for a second how old I was. I originally had written, “The 31-Year-Old Rub ‘n Buff Virgin” as a post title, a nod to a classic comedy, The 40-Year-Old Virgin. But then I paused, thought about it for a hot minute, and was like “I’m thirty-two…THIRTY-TWO?! … Read more
Painting a craft room a dark green, almost black wall color, River Rock by Benjamin Moore.
It’s really ironic writing this post right now. A post about how we painted the living room, set it up like a living room, and gave it a little style and personality. The ironic part? That an hour ago I was wrecking the living room to bring in some Christmas decor. But the living room … Read more