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…
Our Home Projects
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…
DIY Armchair to Nursery Rocker Conversion
When we were putting together the nursery before Eleanor was born, people were always telling us how we needed a rocking chair. Being first-time parents we were like, ‘okay how much do we really need one though because these fancy Buy Buy Baby and Pottery Barn ones are HUNDREDS of dollars?’ It was another one…
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…
What Led Us to DIY (Without Any Experience)
When I was in kindergarten I distinctly remember being dissuaded from a life of DIY. Mrs R, a beloved teacher in a small town of about 250 in rural Australia who went by that name because nobody could pronounce Rohrschneider, had told a 5-year-old Emma that her ability to cut out shapes with cardboard was…