Everyone has their little pet peeves in home design (just ask all the painted brick haters coming at me on social media), and for me one of them is when kitchen cabinets don’t extend to the ceiling. For us, the process of extending our kitchen cabinets to the ceiling was a make-it-up-as-you-go approach, but it…
Our Home Projects
How we turned an antique dresser into a bathroom vanity
When I started designing our hallway bathroom makeover (in my head during toddler bath time, mostly) I always knew I wanted to turn an antique dresser into a bathroom vanity. It’s unique, the wood tones are so cozy, and on the whole, it’s a lot more affordable than most vanities that aren’t ugly stock cabinets….
All the sources from our kitchen renovation: Lighting, tile + more
There are so many little decisions that go into a kitchen renovation: cabinet color, backsplash, floor tile, cabinet pulls, countertop material, go-to takeout when you’ve been demoing all day and your back hurts and there’s no way you’re cooking dinner, that kind of thing. Since we posted about the finished kitchen almost a month ago,…
Bathroom makeover inspo
We’re back on our demolition bullshit again (not even a week after our massive kitchen renovation reveal), but this time we’re taking on a bathroom makeover. This bathroom is one of two in our house and really needs some love between the peeling plastic tile above the shower and the cracked floor tile. View…
Kitchen renovation: Reveal
After nine months of living with makeshift pantry shelves, subsisting on crockpot meals and grilled cheeses, and herding our children away from building supplies scattered around the room, we’re finally finished with our huge down-to-the-studs kitchen renovation. When we first looked at this house before buying it, the kitchen was the room that made us…
DIY kitchen range hood
She’s beefy, she’s beautiful, she’s a champagne taste on a beer budget, she’s my new DIY kitchen range hood. This thing was honestly one of the quicker, easier, more budget-friendly DIYs in our kitchen remodel but I procrastinated getting started for weeks because I was nervous about the angles I’d need to calculate for the…
White brick exterior reveal
This project was one of those classic “we’re going to knock it out in a week, easy” situations, but after a full month, our white brick exterior reveal is finally here and it was worth the wait. It’s bright, fresh, and honestly looks like a whole new house! We always knew when we bought this…
How we painted our brick house
I knew painting our brick would make a huge difference but I was not prepared for how amazing this painted white brick makeover would look. Not only did it immediately brighten up the curb appeal, but it made the whole house look decades newer. We even had a neighbor stop us to say he appreciates…
We’re painting our brick house!
The exterior of our red brick house has been looking a little neglected since we moved in almost a year ago. It’s got some landscaping overgrowth, the bricks are kind of discolored, and at the very least it’s in need of a good cleaning (it is a 70-year-old house). So, this next week we’re going…
Bright functional laundry room makeover
Wallpaper | Vintage floral print | Floor tile |Wall frame The beadboard. The wallpaper. The cabinet space. I can’t even pick my favorite part of our laundry room makeover, but I’ll tell you one thing: It’s a lot more fun to be sorting through someone else’s undies in this colorful, functional space than it was in…