If you’re looking to achieve a simple mantel decor makeover, this post might help you out. Since the holidays, I’ve been in money-saving mode. In December I gave my kitchen an uber-affordable facelift and loved how it turned out, so I decided to challenge myself with a similar budget makeover on our fireplace mantel. When we moved in, the blank wall above the mantel was driving me crazy, so I threw up a couple frames I already had on hand—these…
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Transform Your Kitchen With Contact Paper For Countertops
Posted on January 7, 2019If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen my stories about my kitchen countertops. I LOATHED THEM. They were about 60 years old, beige Formica with little black flecks that I’m guessing were supposed to be decorative, but at this point just looked like dirt. No matter how much I scrubbed the counters, the kitchen just didn’t feel clean. About a month ago I decided to give our tiny kitchen a facelift by painting the cabinets and drawers.…
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How To Paint Your Kitchen Cabinets Yourself For A Total Transformation
Posted on December 18, 2018Have you ever wanted to teleport back to the 1950’s? If so, all you had to do was come on over and walk into our kitchen. The knotty pine cabinets. The Formica countertops with aluminum trim. The grease from 60 years’ worth of pot roasts. It was truly the whole experience. In fact, it reminded me so much of the kitchens in my grandparents’ old houses that part of me didn’t want to change a thing about it for nostalgia’s…
You know what isn’t fun? Taking an ice-cold shower in the middle of November. You know what also isn’t fun? Telling your husband you screwed up the pressure in the hot water heater and you’re going to have to pay a plumber to come out and fix it. Thankfully, if you’re in this same position, you won’t have to worry about either of these things by the end of this post. I’ll show you the super-simple steps to drain and/or…
I recently read an Instagram post by Katherine from My Eclectic Grace and I loved the idea behind it. Like me, she’s in the process of fixing up a new-to-her house, and like me, she’s got a million different projects going on at any given time. In her post, she mentioned something I’ve always had in my mind but have never really put into words—the reason we pour so much time and energy into spaces that, 99% of the time,…
I’ve been heart-eyed about this pretty little space in the front of our house from the moment we moved in. For starters, it’s lined with windows, which is unlike any room in any house I’ve lived in before. In New York they do this crazy thing where they open the windows, and it makes the white sheer curtains (left here by the previous owner) do this dreamy blowing-in-the-wind deal that makes me want to keep them open even on the…
Building things runs in my family. Construction, real estate, pretty much all of my immediate family members have been in a related profession. I’ve been privy to conversations about drywall and impact drivers for as long as I can remember, so it feels natural to me that when I want to do a project, I make a Home Depot run and do it. Through this blog, though, I’ve learned that a lot of my female friends don’t feel quite so…