Ohhhh, boob lights. You know the kind – small, round, frosted glass, very nippley-looking, prominent in lots of old houses. We’ve had a lot of these types of lights in the houses we’d rented for years, but this one in our current hallway just always bothered me. So we decided it was time to look…
We’re moving!
Yep, only 14 months after we moved into our cute little yellow house, she’s on the market again. In typical us fashion, the time between when we made the decision to sell and start looking at other homes and when it actually went on the market was about three weeks. We don’t mess around. The…
How to paint your bathtub and shower like a pro
I can’t imagine a time when someone looked at marbled beige fiberglass and was like ‘OMG how GOOD would this look in our shower?!’ but I guess that happened back in the 50s when our house was built. It’s kind of funny to think that someday our grandchildrens’ generation will walk through older homes and…
One-hour modern barn door handle
This DIY fits under the category of high-end look with a TJ Maxx budget. It took seriously under an hour to do, including spraypainting and staining the wood, and it only cost about $5! We built our barn door to go between the master bedroom and the bathroom about six months ago and at the…
7 tips to make your house feel cohesive
You know how when you watch HGTV and they’re doing the ‘after’ tour of a house each room flows and finds that perfect balance where it’s not too matchy but doesn’t look like an amusement park funhouse? Yeah, that wasn’t what our house looked like when we moved in. Our house is very cute. It…
Our cute, organized nursery closet makeover
It’s kind of amazing how many times you can say ‘fuck’ while working to create a sweet, whimsical little room for an innocent baby girl. But this nursery closet really taught me a few things. I set out trying to make this little cave more functional because it seemed fine when I was pregnant to…
Quick and easy entryway bench
Does anyone else have an awkward area you have no idea how to fill? For us, it’s the dead space walkway right as you enter our front door. Great. Not the very back guest room where few people ever go, it’s the glaringly obvious spot when you enter our humble abode and walk right into…
How to make a modern nursery wall stencil with your Silhouette or Cricut
When I was researching ideas to make over Eleanor’s dirty, stained cave of a closet, there were countless bold wallpaper options and decals. The only problem was, the pricetag was pretty bold, too. I wasn’t about to spend hundreds of dollars on a small, dingy closet, but if I was going to spend all the…
DIY Yard Yahtzee Dice Set
Before we get into the specifics of how to make this DIY yard yahtzee dice set, you need to know a little bit about us. We’re games people. A couple years into us dating, back when we used to live in a small, central-Kentucky town, we took a day trip to Cincinnati, which was only…
Mudroom Makeover: Entryway Coat Rack
Our mudroom was the longest slog of renovation we’ve done. I’d made a shoe bin area and entryway coat rack the first week we lived in the house and that served us for almost a year until, with a newborn, we decided to take on the rest of it over six weeks during naptime and…