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Style Refresh

    Our family has wanted to significantly add onto our home for a lot of years. We’ve done three “small” additions, but we still really want one or two larger additions to make our home fit our family better. But the addition plans keep getting kicked further down the road. One of the biggest obstacles is finding a reputable builder who… Read More »Style Refresh

    New to Me Baking Counter

      Upon finishing the wall, floor and trim painting of  Maddie’s room I still had a lot of afternoon left. With the paint in one hand and a still loaded paintbrush in the other, I walked by the buffet that I had recently moved from our garage into the kitchen. And I heard a whisper, “Psssst!  Psssst! Over here.” It called to me. Beckoned… Read More »New to Me Baking Counter

      Maddie’s Room Remake

        Under the chapter of “How we Shuffle Five Children into Two and a Half Bedrooms”, we updated Maddie’s room. I had hoped to get to it before Christmas, but busy happened and I just never found the time.  So it was one of the top projects for us to tackle in 2016. We loved the color that was on the… Read More »Maddie’s Room Remake

        Mudroom – hooks and trim

          This weekend we continued to work on our new mudroom.  It’s coming along quite nicely.  We tiled the floor two weeks ago and grouted it last week, and I LOVE the way it turned out!  We also built a small deck off the back last weekend, but we still need to add steps to it. (If you follow me on… Read More »Mudroom – hooks and trim

          Almost new

            This little table has been living here for a couple of years, just begging to be made over. I didn’t really have a place for it or a purpose, so it just waited in line patiently for its turn in a very long line of things to be done. But finally I had a moment and a vision and the… Read More »Almost new

            Adding On

                Once upon a time, there was a Little Cottage who was looking for a family. Not just any family would do, this Little Cottage was looking for a family who laughed and who loved and who would fill the rooms with joy. A family was found, and the Little Cottage was happy and full and bright. The passing years… Read More »Adding On

              New Clothes for the Patio Chairs

                The old covers were falling apart in my hands. The hardest part of making these was picking out the fabric, but once that was in hand, it was a simple matter of tracing, cutting, stitching two dozen ties together, a bit of pinning and a few more stitches, and … Done. Perfect? No.  So much better, Yes?