Oh, boy. It’s been a LONG WEEK, but our house is under contract! Our cute little yellow house was on the market nine days before we got an offer, so now we’re in that awkward waiting-to-pass-inspection-and-hoping-not-to-lose-our-jobs phase which is really fun when you’re selling a house during coronavirus. It’s been about a month since we…
Easy DIY kids book storage bin
I think books are truly one of the best baby shower gifts. Don’t get me wrong, new parents are for sure going to need that diaper pail, but add a book as a gift as well and you’ve got a sweet personal touch. Is dad really into space? Throw in a cute planets book. You’re…
How we updated our bathroom with a $6 grout pen
This little DIY was oddly therapeutic. I had set out to refresh the stained, discolored grout in our guest bathroom because we’ve got our house on the market and it’s one of the last things really bringin’ down the vibe in there. Thankfully, grout pens exist. Part of it is our fault – the bathroom…
The best boob light replacements under $100
Ohhhh, boob lights. You know the kind – small, round, frosted glass, very nippley-looking, prominent in lots of old houses. We’ve had a lot of these types of lights in the houses we’d rented for years, but this one in our current hallway just always bothered me. So we decided it was time to look…
We’re moving!
Yep, only 14 months after we moved into our cute little yellow house, she’s on the market again. In typical us fashion, the time between when we made the decision to sell and start looking at other homes and when it actually went on the market was about three weeks. We don’t mess around. The…
How to paint your bathtub and shower like a pro
I can’t imagine a time when someone looked at marbled beige fiberglass and was like ‘OMG how GOOD would this look in our shower?!’ but I guess that happened back in the 50s when our house was built. It’s kind of funny to think that someday our grandchildrens’ generation will walk through older homes and…
One-hour modern barn door handle
This DIY fits under the category of high-end look with a TJ Maxx budget. It took seriously under an hour to do, including spraypainting and staining the wood, and it only cost about $5! We built our barn door to go between the master bedroom and the bathroom about six months ago and at the…
7 tips to make your house feel cohesive
You know how when you watch HGTV and they’re doing the ‘after’ tour of a house each room flows and finds that perfect balance where it’s not too matchy but doesn’t look like an amusement park funhouse? Yeah, that wasn’t what our house looked like when we moved in. Our house is very cute. It…
Our cute, organized nursery closet makeover
It’s kind of amazing how many times you can say ‘fuck’ while working to create a sweet, whimsical little room for an innocent baby girl. But this nursery closet really taught me a few things. I set out trying to make this little cave more functional because it seemed fine when I was pregnant to…
Quick and easy entryway bench
Does anyone else have an awkward area you have no idea how to fill? For us, it’s the dead space walkway right as you enter our front door. Great. Not the very back guest room where few people ever go, it’s the glaringly obvious spot when you enter our humble abode and walk right into…