Like so many other projects in our house, this one is about saving money. But, also like so many projects, it shows that you don’t need a big budget for a big impact. When we first moved into our house, we used the dining room table that we had purchased originally for our townhouse. It […]
This is a story about taking chances. Or maybe it’s about making a poor decision because we were impatient. I’ll let you be the judge! It starts where many of our stories start: in the midst of a whole-house renovation. We were in a hurry to get at least one of our house’s two bathrooms […]
I have a love-hate relationship with DIY furniture. It can be so great to achieve the look you’re going for at a more affordable price. However, I often experience a few DIY roadblocks, if you will. First is that the choices and possibilities are endless, making it hard to pick a direction and stick with […]
Sometimes the simplest projects can make the biggest impact. While renovating our en suite bathroom, I realized the look of our bedroom wasn’t quite doing it for me. After all, how can you have a new, stylish bathroom and a blah bedroom?? Because we had been in the middle of a whole-house renovation when we […]
As one of my first posts, I thought I’d write about a favorite project of mine: our kitchen open shelves. When we were first considering designs for our kitchen, I browsed kitchen photos trying to decide which elements I wanted to incorporate. I’m a gal who likes to do very thorough, often too much, research before […]
One lesson I’ve learned from renovating two houses is that your first instinct isn’t always your best one. But I’ve also learned that that’s ok! Because I have perfectionist tendencies, it’s important for me to give myself permission to change something I don’t love instead of living with it and getting angry at myself for […]
