Someone recently asked me how our budget-friendly, online-ordered kitchen cabinets are holding up and since we just passed the one-year anniversary of our DIY kitchen remodel, now seems like the perfect time to chat about how to choose kitchen cabinets. When I tell you I’m a researcher, it means before I dive into most bigger…
6 Tips For Traveling with Toddlers (Stress-Free)
In the past three months, we’ve spent about six weeks traveling to Australia, New York, Fiji and California and by this point we’ve rounded up a lot of tips on traveling with toddlers. From drowning in snacks to hoarding Target dollar section shit for a rainy day (AKA twelve minutes into your 12-hour flight), let’s…
DIY Cozy Breakfast Nook Bench
After building a cozy breakfast nook bench in our last house when we had a giant open kitchen to fill, I knew I wanted to do the same in our current house. When we moved in, the dining room was all sectioned off by walls and quite small. But, because it also functioned as a…
Should you caulk around your toilet?
So, you’re done with your bathroom renovation and the absolutely undesirable task of installing a toilet, and you’re wondering about whether or not to caulk around your toilet. We’ve been there and it’s not as easy as it seems to get the answer. Every plumber you ask will probably give a different opinion and the…
Brick-look tile: Two Patterns to try
I’m a renovation supply hoarder. I have been known to keep boxes of tile in our garage with no immediate plans to use them, and to even haul them from house to house without a plan because I know that one day I’ll put them to use. Lo and behold, the time has finally come:…
6 tips for finding the best Facebook Marketplace deals
These last few weeks I’ve been on the hunt for an antique dresser so I’ve been back in the world of Facebook Marketplace and thought I’d share a few of my tips for finding finding Facebook marketplace deals. Facebook Marketplace, in its spare time from absolutely annihilating Craigslist, has really been a gamechanger for the…
How to Waterproof Your Bathroom Wallpaper
If you’ve been around a while, you’ll know that to wallpaper or not to wallpaper is an ongoing debate in our household, but when I finally won out in our recent bathroom renovation, I admittedly did wonder how to waterproof wallpaper in a bathroom. Being that it’s, ya know, paper, it doesn’t on the face…
Modern Vintage Bathroom Reveal
The scary bunker of a bathroom we started with a few months ago is finally gone and the modern/vintage bathroom of my dreams is finished! This master bathroom renovation was a real test from the inch-thick concrete backing the shower tile to the bubbling paint on the drywall and the tiny footprint giving some layout…
DIY faux Frame TV tutorial
If you, like me, like the look of fancy frame TVs but don’t want to spend $1,500 on a television, then this DIY faux TV frame tutorial is for you. We love this because it perfectly compliments our DIY overgrouted stone fireplace. I see designers all the time in magazines and on HGTV who create…
Key measurements for your kitchen renovation
If I had a dollar for every time I googled something like ‘how much space between island and cabinets,’ I probably wouldn’t have had to spend nine months busting my ass to DIY my own kitchen, but now I’m here to pay it forward and give a rundown of the key measurements for your kitchen…