Adding built-in storage has been critical for our family’s sanity. I mean, you can never have enough storage, but that’s especially true when you’re a family of four (including two toddlers) constantly moving from one small fixer upper to the next. Over three houses in five years, we’ve had to get creative with our storage…
Our Home Projects
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…
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…
Redgard vs. Schluter: Which Shower Waterproofing is Best?
We’re in the depths of remodeling our primary bathroom and are finally at the stage of rebuilding, but as we started installing the Schluter shower waterproofing system last week, it got me thinking about whether I like this process more or less than the Redgard we’ve used before. As a DIYer, it can sometimes feel…
Dark and Moody Hallway Makeover
This dark and moody hallway makeover was just going to be a fill-in-some-time, in-between-other-projects project but it’s turned into one of my favorites! Hallways don’t get a lot of love but when you think about it, you actually spend a lot of time in them if you add up all the pass-through minutes between bedrooms…
How to prep for a kitchen renovation
People ask us all the time “how did you survive such a long kitchen renovation with jobs and kids?” and the answer is: it’s kind of a blur, but we also did a lot to prepare for living kitchen-free for a while. We spent nine months DIY renovating our kitchen, which included it being torn…
DIY Overgrouted Stone Fireplace
When we thought about the cozy lived-in feel we wanted to create for our living room, I immediately knew I wanted to do a DIY overgrouted stone fireplace. There’s something about the look that, to me, feels modern and like an old cottage at the same time. Plus, as a DIYer learning how to overgrout…
How to install a stone veneer fireplace
Easily the most intimidating part of our living room makeover was figuring out how to install a stone veneer fireplace. I’m no stonemason, and it took some really mad people on the internet, an all-nighter, a lot of googling, and a lot of self-doubt before we finally got there (i.e. the life cycle of just…
Cozy living room fireplace: Part One
Our next project is one I’m – to be quite honest – pretty intimidated by: creating a cozy stacked stone living room fireplace from a blank wall in our living room. We built a fireplace in our last living room, but that one was tiled and there’s something about stone that seems like it’ll take…
Our Modern Vintage Bathroom: The Reveal
This modern vintage bathroom remodel was probably the closest I’ve ever gotten to translating a moodboard into reality, which may be because I rarely take the time to actually make moodboards before diving into demo, but a win’s a win. This room is neutral without being boring, it feels calming, and can transition from a…