The second bathroom redo (or what we lovingly call the “Fishy Bathroom”) is finally complete. With summer vacation, ultimate frisbee games, family time, and life in general, this project has taken way longer than I wanted. This is what we started with. Now you know why we call it the “Fishy Bathroom”. As our kids grow older, […]
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PROGRESS ON THE SECOND BATHROOM ~ alias the fishy bathroom
We’ve been working on the guest bathroom this weekend after a long break. You know how life gets in the way? School, sports, vacations, etc. Well, my girls started back to school and we had a break in our frisbee tournament schedule so we took advantage and got some work done. Just to recap, this […]
COLLEGE DRESSER REDO ~ and I didn’t do it!
Son #3 is moving out of his college dormitory and into an apartment off campus. You know what that means don’t you? FURNITURE SHOPPING!!!!! And where does a cheap DIYer find great furniture for cheap? HABITAT FOR HUMANITY RESTORE!! We found a great but a little beat up dresser for $55 that my son liked. […]
GRADUATION GIFT~ and wise words
Having high school and college aged boys living in our house, we've had some sweet young ladies come through. Son #3 is dating a beautiful young lady (Miss J). They've been dating about two and a half years now and we absolutely adore her. Here they both are at Miss J's Senior Prom. Today Miss […]
ELEGANT INTERIOR DOORS ~ with a little bling!
It takes visitors to my house for me to get off my butt and complete projects that have been running around in my head and I have been ignoring! Source When I feel the pressure of company coming to visit, all of a sudden I'm energized to do the thousand projects I've been procrastinating for […]
BYE BYE FISHY BATHROOM ~ Hello beautiful and elegant!
Hey people on the East coast ~ how has this crazy weather affected you? In NC, we've been homebound for almost two weeks with all this snow and ice. The positive of being trapped relaxing inside….I've gotten a lot of work done on the laundry room and our second bathroom. The second bathroom, also known as […]
FUN PICTURES FOR THE KITCHEN
I have been trying to fill the two kitchen walls around the back door to our deck since I redid the kitchen a few years ago! I've tried a couple of things with no success. I was almost going to quit. Since we're expecting company to come visit this week I thought I'd give it another […]
THE TWO LEGGED TABLE STRIKES AGAIN
If you read my last post about my two legged table here, you learned about our plan and inspiration for the half table going into our laundry room for a little extra workspace. We got a lot of work done on it this past weekend. Way more work than we wanted or planned on. Awhile […]
COLLAGE LETTERS
I bought these great letters on one of my fun trips to Hobby Lobby. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with them. I had many ideas running around in my head. Paint them black. Too boring. Paint a pattern or stencil on them. Maybe. It just didn't get my heart racing so […]
A PROJECT ON THE FLY! ~for our new laundry room
Are you like this? Before you begin renovating a room, a thousand ideas race through your mind for weeks (if not months) sometimes keeping you awake at night? ME, TOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Before we began on the laundry room, I searched my favorite blogs, Pinterest, google and so on for great ideas. Today, I got a […]