Here’s a fun fact: Alex hates plants. We don’t have those cute fiddle leaf figs in the empty corners of our home, no rooms are warmed up with greenery, nothing. He says plants belong outside, and to his credit, I’m not sure I could keep them alive anyway, but I’m damn well gonna try after…
Before & Afters
Our budget bathroom remodel
Ooooh guys, this mostly-unplanned budget bathroom remodel has given us some very satisfying before and afters to show you and it’s truly gone from the worst room in the house to one of the best. You know the phrase ‘if you give a mouse a cookie?’ I had never heard of it once in my…
Pantry makeover: Before and after One Room Challenge reveal
We’re finally done! This pantry makeover is finished! This beautiful beast of a room is finished and has added so much functionality and storage to this 1,000 square foot home of ours. I’ve seriously been walking by a dozen times a day to sneak a peek, and not just because that’s where the snacks are…
How we designed our small (but functional) kitchen
The kitchen. The heart of the home, where memories are made. The problem when we moved into our house, though, is that the memories were of trying to find a place to put our cutlery and not, like, baking Christmas cookies. It was tiny, dark and non-functional. There was an entire wall that only had…
How to refinish outdoor furniture
Phew, talk about a GLOW UP. This patio set has been taunting me for more than a year now with its greyed-out wood grain, old stained cushions and cute design that I just knew had potential if I put any effort at all into it to learn how to refinish outdoor furniture. To backtrack, this…
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…
Our First Year of Homeownership: Before and Afters of Our Favorite Projects
This time last year we were frantically throwing random crap that we don’t need but also for some reason won’t throw out into the final ‘miscellaneous’ box in our rental before we packed up the truck and went a whole three blocks to the house we’d just bought. It’s wild to think that we’ve been…
DIY Fireplace Mantel (+ a Bold Paint Makeover)
When we bought our house, this fireplace was a focal point in the living room but needed some love. The insert was rusted, old, and the house inspector who looked over the place before we bought it basically said ‘yeah if you don’t want a house fire, don’t use it.’ Because we in fact didn’t…
Our $500 Guest Bathroom Makeover
We wouldn’t have called our house a ‘fixer upper’ when we moved in, but it was definitely rough around the edges. The guest bathroom, though, was one of the rooms that gave you that horror-movie-scream sound effect in your head as you walked in and your eyes zoomed in on the gross bathtub, peeling window…
How We Transformed Our Master Bedroom With a Plank Accent Wall
This master bedroom plank accent wall was long in the making but man, was she worth the wait. Until we did this project, our house palette was pretty light and neutral – white kitchen, greige walls, wood accents. I knew I wanted to start bringing in a few darker, more accent-type colors throughout the house…