It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home
I love my master bedroom. I love climbing into our bed, flipping on the television to watch “Friends”, while the LOML falls fast asleep. Or cuddling with the kids on a cold night, watching one of their favorite movies, nibbling on some popcorn. My master bedroom is huge! Most people would like to have my […]
My master bedroom is looking more beautiful with every project we complete!! So far, we’ve done THE MASTER BEDROOM CLOSET THE READING NOOK THE BEAUTIFUL CLASSIC FIREPLACE The next step in this fun makeover is to get rid of the awful old carpet and replace it with beautiful engineered hardwood flooring just like THE […]
I’m so excited to show you our new master closet. But before I do, a little reminiscing. Here’s the before. Very disorganized and cluttered. I hated walking into it every day. After we emptied out all the stuff and took down the wire shelving, we filled in all the holes with spackling, sanded forever, scrubbed […]
Our house is in full swing now that everyone is in school. I love summer break where we spend family time but I also love getting back into a regular schedule and working on our to-do list. To recap, we’ve been working on our master bedroom closet. It was just a wire shelving mess […]
The last part to complete the upstairs hallway wood floor installation project is the transition pieces to connect the carpeting or linoleum in each room to the wood floors in the hallway. There are 7 transitions to be done ~ four bedrooms, the bonus room, a linen closet, and the laundry room. We attacked the […]
As you may know, we’ve been working on installing hardwood floors in the upstairs hallway. You can read about Part One. You can read about Part Two. You can read about Part Three. We’ve been waiting for the bull nose to add to the top step for a smooth transition from the carpeted stairs to the wood floors. In […]
Laying the hardwood floors in our upstairs hallway, we’ve learned many do’s and don’t’s. Here are our top 2: #1) Starting with a space with many alcoves and crevices, a boring rectangular shaped room will be a piece of cake! #2) Walls are not square. MEASURE, MEASURE, MEASURE!! This is what we’ve done so far. […]
After two days of working on pulling up the carpet and preparing the base molding and door jambs for the beautiful wood floors, we were aching. We both really looked like 90 year olds walking around the house!! You can see what we did here. The incentive of beautiful wood floors pushed us to continue […]
Happy Very Belated Chinese New Year! My LOML works for a company from China so the week before last was a big holiday for them. SCORE!!! He took off last Friday and Monday so we had four days to rip up carpeting and lay down beautiful wood floors (or so we thought!). DAY #1 The […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! The New Year always brings with it hope for change, fresh, new beginnings. We just put away all our Christmas decorations. Does anyone else get tired of them? My house felt so cluttered and dirty after a month of tinsel and pine needles and garland. Now I walk through my newly cleaned, […]