When you live in a 1,000 square foot home in Florida, you plan to spend a lot of time outside. So, in trying to make a mini oasis, we figured out how to stencil a concrete patio and it was a total gamechanger in our hipster backyard brewery vibe. The back patio of our home…
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How to get a perfect caulk line every time
We’re fairly sure it’s universally hated to actually finish a project 100% the first time around. Those last steps – paint touch-ups, caulking, sanding, sealing – are super important, but also the absolute worst. Caulk is truly magic once you get the hang of it. It’s second on my list of tools that make DIY…
How to buy a house (without a lot of money)
If you’ve ever wondered how to buy a house when you own, like, seven buttons, two convenient but probably overpriced subscription boxes and zero bitcoin, this one’s for you. We’ve had quite a few questions over on Instagram, in reply to our free weekly newsletter, and from friends about buying our first home because it…
How to install floating shelves (the easy way)
We never really knew how to install floating shelves. It seemed like some kind of wizardry. Like, how are they there, and how do you trust they won’t fall down the second you add any kind of weight to them? Turns out Google has the answers to any question we have, so we pumped ourselves…
How to paint bathroom tile
If you want to talk about an easy glow-up, learning how to paint bathroom tile has got to be up there with the best. We’ve now painted three bathrooms with this stuff and tell everyone about it all the time. In our last house, we used a Tub & Tile refinishing kit, but this most…
How to paint linoleum floors
You guys are going to be blown away by these before and afters – we figured out how to paint linoleum floors and it’s totally changed our pantry. You know how sometimes at the end of a project you’d rather eat Tide pods than do one single more element of it? That was kind of…
Holiday gift guide: Unique gift ideas you haven’t seen before
Jingle all the damn way, friends, it’s (kind of, fairly close to) Christmas. And if you pile together all the ridiculous, stressful, hard, isolating trials of 2020, I think it’s fair we start Christmas shopping for the loved ones we haven’t seen in months. And what better way to prepare than a holiday gift guide?…
How to install a light fixture without wiring: ORC Week 6
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FINAL REVEAL Hey friends, So technically, yes, it’s One Room Challenge reveal week, but are we done? Not quite. We don’t want to give you a full reveal until everything is totally done, and we’re about halfway through stenciling the linoleum floor, so the full smattering of satisfying before and…
The best Amazon Prime Day sales for home improvement
You wouldn’t believe the trouble I had convincing Alex that we needed Amazon Prime. He’s always thought any kind of subscription service was boujee and extra (unless it’s sports related, of course), so I broke down the price to him in our budget and would even spontaneously quiz our friends on whether they had it,…
How to hang a (perfectly straight) gallery wall
Gallery walls have always drawn me in. Not so much the farmhouse, old-cheese-grater-on-the-wall type, but the more modern, subdued ones? Very much yes. When we got married last year, I knew right away I wanted a gallery wall of our favorite wedding photos on display because a) we spent a lot of money on them…