In the recent weeks I’ve alluded to this awesome thing that Colby has been building me. Well hold on to your britches boys and girls because the awesome thing is about to be revealed. It’s done, we think (there may be future tweakages as needed), and fully stocked. Drum roll please……….joy to the world…….drum roll……….introducing … Read more
This little project definitely belongs in the “2012…Year of the Nagging Project” category. It’s the wine rack in the dining room. Colby built it for me based off an old Pottery Barn wine rack design way back, we’re talking circa July 2011 (back here). The wine rack has just sat in it’s little corner of … Read more
After a long weekend of ridiculously amounts of polying the hallway floor, I’m super stoked to reveal the finished hallway floor. Well…kind of finished hallway floor. There’s still the heating vent to spray paint and put back in the floor. And then there’s that weirdly, light colored floor section that I want need to sand … Read more
I was really hoping to be able to give you all a big hallway floor refinishing reveal tonight, but alas, I have none such reveal. In the history of floor refinishings, this floor has been the most dastardly. After a solid week’s worth of work this is about how far I’ve come, after a fresh … Read more
Me: I’ll take “Things I Should Have Finished A Year Ago” for 200 Alex. Alex: This step was a critical step missed when the then office and now craft room was renovated. Me: What is poly the trim? Alex: Ding ding ding…we have a winner! I know Alex doesn’t say that but it makes for … Read more
While we’re diligently staining and polying our hallway floor like good little DIYers, let’s share one of our weekend activities. We try to escape the house as much as possible. Is it sad that these two homebodies literally have to tell ourselves to go out more? For instance, this weekend I said, “Self…we have got … Read more
Lately, it’s felt like we’ve fallen off the DIY wagon. It’s been at least a month since I painted anything, our house has been clean…like no dust kind of clean, and it hasn’t stunk like polyurethane. It’s weird. And oddly doesn’t feel like home without those things. But we’re back in the proverbial saddle and … Read more
Hello…my name is Angie…and I’m a pack rat. I try not to be, I really do, but sometimes I just can’t help it. There are just some things worth holding onto. One of my oldest and dearest pack rat-isms is magazine and catalog clippings. I love ’em! You see, I have this little magazine system. … Read more
Here in Maine we have four seasons…kind of…summer is a little short. These seasons include summer, fall, winter, and mud season. Spring here is usually disgusting. While the rest of the country is blooming we’re still fending off snow storms and watching the raging rivers of water flow through our yards. Although this spring was … Read more
The last week or so we’ve had a bunch of epiphany moments. Like Goose is such a good dog when we run him, dust goes away when you actually dust, and yards are muddy…really muddy in the spring in Maine. But the most profound epiphany moment was when we asked ourselves, “why should the most … Read more
As we mentioned WAYYYYYY back here when we were writing up our New Year’s resolutions, we vowed to spend more time outside this summer. Not only do I plan to hammock so hard this summer, but also tackle a few long, does-it-ever-end yardscaping to-do list. And even though the temps dipped down to near freezing … Read more
We are the WORST gardeners ever. Let’s just put that right out there. We forget to water our plants, weeds overtake our veggie gardens, and plants just die. Even our lawn struggles with us around, but that’s another post for another day. Regardless, we plant a veggie garden every year and every year we have … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, I nearly accosted the UPS man as he was coming up the walk with this box: That’s the parlor Flor rug that I ordered (from Flor.com) a couple of weeks ago. Remember? From this post way back here? Where we Photoshoped a bunch of different Flor rugs into our parlor … Read more
Buy your tickets today…the parlor art gallery is officially open! And you’re not going to want to miss this grand opening…it’s a doozy! We’ve got pink flamingos, mice, and deer….oh my! We finally got the gallery up and love it so, so much! Especially because it looked like this for so long: That’s the art … Read more
And it’s back to the remainder of Art Week…or more like Art Three Days with a one week hiatus followed up with Art Two Days. We had planned on dedicating an entire week to go through all the art we created for our parlor gallery (which is yet to be revealed…you’ll have to check out … Read more
If there was a tagline to this post in addition to the title it would definitely be “How To Install Balusters…The Angie & Colby Way”. By no means are we experts or even pretend to be. We just do what works for us at the time, usually after a little research, hope for the best … Read more