Welcome back for another exciting edition of the Inspired Design Challenge with this week’s inspiration…….wait for it….West Elm! Oh how I swoon over West Elm! When I walk into that store, which thankfully is very rare since the closest store to us is in Boston which is over 5 hours away, I can’t help but … Read more
That’s right, we’re going places we have never been before. We’re blazing a trail, bushwhacking it if you wish, and taking our Etsy office door from doorknob-less: To officially doorknob-ed: Yes, that’s right. Tonight, we’re learning how to install a doorknob where no doorknob has been before. This step is long overdue. What’s it been, … Read more
Welcome back Inspired Design Challenge followers/readers/general awesome people. How was your weekend? Mine was fantabulous…thanks for asking…mostly because we tackled this little Urban Outfitters inspired project: Boom! New plant hangers for the dining room in your face! Sorry. Apparently I get a little excited about plant hangers. Anywho, this week for the Inspired Design Challenge … Read more
Since the blog serves a dual purpose of being first and foremost, the dumping ground for all things DIY and home renovation, but also as a behind the scenes, hints and tips, all things our Etsy shop purpose, we have a little new product release announcement to share with you all. (Run on sentence say … Read more
Happy first day of the Inspired Design Challenge everyone! Are you celebrating? Jumping for joy? Eating cake as one should to commemorate such a fine event? As for me…I’m resting my tired (almost 30 year old) bones because let me tell you, after completing this project in 90 degree weather and suffering a minor albeit … Read more
Beaming is what my face should have been doing after installing the faux beams in the Etsy office. But instead, it was doing the anti-beaming frown because it turned out more like this: I like the beams, they’re great, and they do a fantabulous job of covering up those icky seams between the beadboard panels … Read more
When it comes to gardening, I really don’t know what I’m doing. It’s pretty pathetic. Hence today’s “Gardening For Dummies” post. So for those of you who are gardening pros (or novices since that’s a step up from a gardening dummy like me), feel free to skip on over this post and return tomorrow for … Read more
When there’s a will beadboard, there’s a way. I’ve pretty much figured out how to work beadboard into just about every room in our house. Seriously…there’s the bathroom ceiling slant, the ceiling slant in our bedroom, the original (and solid wood) beadboard on our porch ceiling, backing our kitchen coat closet, and on the staircase … Read more
In the last couple of years, we’ve really been working hard renovating the inside of our home. Which left us with a TON of projects and to-do’s left to tackle on the outside of our home. And the rarely photographed front yard was no exception. Other than fixing some peeling paint, attaching lattice to the … Read more
Last week, we played the big tease card and revealed to you our absolutely amazing mirror makeover. It was a builder grade mirror that we gave the little West Elm-ish treatment to and turned it into something like this: But to fully appreciate the mirror makeover, you need to know that it used to look … Read more
So I sat down tonight to write up a nice little reveal post/tutorial on how we took our builder grade boring bathroom mirror and DIYed it into this amazingly awesome, West Elm-ish mirror. It’s totally awesome and one of my favorite projects to date. But then I realized I took OVER 200 PICTURES over the … Read more
When I’m chugging aloooooooong….oh Kenny…Kenny, Kenny, Kenny…you had me at hello. Okay, I’m done reminiscing about old school Kenny Chesney songs and lyrics, let’s talk about stools! As many of you Instagram followers of ours may know, the Colb-ster and I took a nice little 8 hour jaunt over to Vermont for an extended weekend … Read more
And we’re back for the final installment of our fence building extravaganza and this time it’s about the ever important Goose gate. Since the most important reason for us building a garden fence in our backyard was to keep the dog out of the garden (especially out of the poisonous rhubarb leaves), the fence needed … Read more
About time I get around to the fence building post! Super blogger slacker reporting in for fence building post duty! We teased the fence building project a week or so ago with our raised bed building post. Complete with a teaser photo of that swanky new, built by our own two hands, not one of … Read more
It’s the return of the mack map heart art. And now I have Mark Morrison officially stuck in my head…awesome. A long, long time ago we made ourselves a little set of map heart art. We’re talking this was so long ago that my mom was just about our only reader on the blog (hi … Read more
A few days ago we introduced you to the newest member of the family…the beefy desk. As we mentioned before, since the cheaper-than-it-should-have-been-because-it-was-really-wet wood needed some serious dry time, we let the desk air out a bit before staining it. More like let it air out for about two weeks-ish before staining it. I probably … Read more