I love the cute, cottagey look of our new painted white brick house, but if I’m honest it does lack a lil’ character now: enter these moody green DIY window shutters. Though we’re yet to actually hang them (read: we’re procrastinating because they’re going to be heavy and held above our heads for a long…
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DIY cottage peg rail shelf
Close to six months into this kitchen renovation, we’re finally at the finishing steps, which includes making this DIY cottage peg rail shelf that gives me at least one little finished corner of the room to look at and see progress. It’s the perfect addition to an otherwise blank wall and it adds some functional…
How to start a herringbone tile pattern
We recently undertook the mammoth effort of ripping apart our entire kitchen down to the subfloor and rebuilding, but when it got to tiling we realized that while there are a lot of videos on how to do a herringbone tile pattern, there isn’t a lot of information on how to start a herringbone tile…
The best DIY tools for demolition
So…. we tore apart our kitchen last month and quickly figured out that demolition really isn’t that hard, you just need the right tools, so we’ve rounded up a list of the best DIY tools for demolition. As a backstory, a few weeks before Theo was born I was prepping some freezer meals and getting…
Easy DIY window trim
Sometimes projects look great in your head then just don’t translate into reality, but this DIY window trim is not one of those projects. It took only one day to complete, used minimal materials and tools, and made the window itself look bigger and more high-end, even though we actually didn’t touch it at all….
DIY toddler house bed (with plans)
How necessary was us making this DIY toddler house bed? Well, we took our daughter’s mattress out of her crib one night to *just see* how she would do with her newfound freedom and it’s been eight months now of her sleeping on a mattress on the floor. But, better late than never, right? After…
How to waterproof a shower before tiling
It may be tedious, kind of stinky, and not seem like you’re doing much, but learning how to waterproof a shower before tiling could save a lot of issues down the line. A few months ago we had a whirlwind few weeks where we weren’t quite moved into our new house but had to do…
DIY Murphy Bed guest space
I think we can all agree that beyond being functional, building a DIY Murphy bed is just plain cool. Do I feel like a bad bitch when I pull the handles down and a whole damn bed appears? Yes I do. And is it super functional? Absolutely. My two favorite things. Here’s the Murphy bed…
Our functional laundry makeover progress
We’ve moved a lot in the last eight years and four cities together, and not once have we ever had a true laundry room. We’ve had laundry closets or nooks, and once we had a dryer in our basement that was leaking gas in our house and we didn’t know, but a big draw of…
How to level a concrete floor before tiling
When we decided to spontaneously rip out the existing flooring in our laundry and thus launch a full room makeover, one of the first things we had to figure out how to do was how to level a concrete floor before tiling. I was definitely… umm… surprised when I heard the clunky sound of pry…