I’ve never been a big color person, but as a renter for 9+ years, I always had white or neutral walls and longed to paint them some exciting color. By the time we had moved into our first home and were finally able to paint, my tastes had changed a bit and I was now…
48 hours until Christmas. And I finally finished decorating my house for the holidays. Yay, me! I had most of it done in early December, but then I had those last few things left to do and I never did them… go figure. But we had some friends over for a holiday party last night,…
Pretty soon, your mailbox will be flooded with Christmas cards. If you’re like me in years past, you’ll leave them on the counter for lack of a better place and then find them randomly crushed and chewed on and shoved under the couch because your toddler got to them (you thought I was going to…
It’s been 15 years since I bought a bed. Yes, that’s correct. When I was 16, my parents took me to buy a queen size bed because my 6 foot frame no longer fit in a twin (the struggle is real). When I got married, I took that bed with me and my husband and…
This post is a long time in the making. Because sometimes DIY projects take me FOREVER to complete. The home we purchased earlier this year was a flip, which is great because of lot of it was new. The downside that everything was very generic to please the masses and didn’t have a whole lot…
When we first moved into our house, our small pantry had a bi-fold closet door on it. This was a problem for two reasons: The already small opening to the pantry was made even smaller when you opened the door and pushed it to one side. It was lame. I knew even before we moved in that it…
Our new home has two small bathrooms. Like most women, I’ve always had big dreams of a giant master bathroom with a soaker tub where I could lock the door and escape… but of course, we can’t have everything we want. A master bath is one of the things we sacrificed when we decided to…
At our old house, we had a tiny entryway where we all fumbled over one another trying to remove our shoes and coats before we got mud and dirt everywhere (especially in the winter). There was very little space to hang coats or backpacks or purses, and even less to store shoes. It was my…
Why is Ikea the best thing ever? I mean, really. Years ago, my husband and I decided that we were old enough to buy “real” furniture. Furniture that was pre-built, made from solid wood, and didn’t have “Flork” anywhere in the name. And thus we decided not to buy any of our big, necessary items…
We’re not quite there yet and I don’t want to jinx anything… but we are currently under contract for a home and should be closing VERY soon. I am peeing my pants with excitement (figuratively, of course). Aside from the joy of owning our first home and having a place for our kids to grow…
