A Simple Garden Planter Before and After
A quick update to a garden planter made a big difference!
A quick update to a garden planter made a big difference!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
I told you about and showed you the beginnings of our remodeling efforts a couple of weeks ago. After living with it for a couple of weeks, we all LOVE this bookcase. We’ve only tried to walk through it a few times. 🙂 I wasn’t going to post a picture until the books were perfect and pretty, but well, this… Read More »Making it home – Living room bookcase
We’ve lived here for going on seven years (it is the absolute longest I have lived in one home. Ever.) It’s a beautiful home, but it’s a little snug for all of us, and there are some aspects that just don’t work (like the one little coat closet, great for 2 people, not so great for 7 and all our… Read More »Making it home – the living room