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
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
It’s Pinterest Challenge reveal day, it’s Pinterest Challenge reveal day, it’s Pinterest Challenge reveal day! Woo to the hoo bring on all the amazing project-ness! I love Pinterest Challenge reveal day. Mostly because I tackle one project and add precisely 32 new inspiration pins. As mentioned last week, the Pinterest Challenge winter edition is in … Read more
It should come as no surprise, but bead board and I are tight. We’re talking peanut butter and jelly tight, or Monica and Rachel tight, or Ben Affleck and Matt Damon tight. Yeah…that’s tight all right. If I could have it my way our whole house would be covered in bead board…bead board ceiling, bead … Read more
In the world according to Angie, there’s nothing that makes home feel like home as a little decorating and picture hanging. Especially when that art means something. This weekend we bunkered down (thanks to hurricane Irene bearing down on the East coast) and weathered the storm (so far…fingers crossed…the other neighbor’s tree doesn’t come down … Read more
Sick of paying ridiculous amounts of money for laundry detergent? Do you feel like your chemical ridden laundry detergent is harming the environment and your skin? Want a more cost effective solution to store bought detergents such as Tide and Whisk? Do I sound like a bad infomercial? I’m done…I swear. I don’t know what … Read more