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…
How to Make a Giant DIY Chalkboard
It’s inevitable our child is going to draw on the walls. She’s only three months old so we’re a ways off yet, but at some point those tiny little hands are going to go full Monet on the drywall, probably having chosen a permanent marker over a pencil knowing our luck. While we’ve accepted that…
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…
How to Build a DIY Photo Ledge (in Under an Hour)
Our hallway doesn’t get a whole lot of natural light and has always been kind of meh. We had a mismatched gallery wall in our rental before we bought our house but it was more college dorm live, laugh, love than the modern boho farmhouse thing we’re trying to get at in our new home….
DIY Farmhouse Outdoor Table (With Free Plans)
We got married last year in a tiny mountain town in Georgia. Thirty-five of our friends and family came from all over – across the country and across the world – to celebrate with us at the coolest venue where everyone could stay in modern farmhouse-style cabins for a long weekend celebration. When vendors asked…
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…
A Brilliant Solution for Organizing Leftover Paint
As I’m sure most households have stashed away somewhere, we had a shameful stack of half-used, dripping, leftover paint cans in our makeshift workshop area. They’ve been project-by-project shoved into the bar cart we now use as a miter saw table in our enclosed porch where most of our wood cutting, staining and painting happens…
Turning Leftover Scrap Wood and Tile Into a Cute DIY Entryway Shoe Tray
We’ve had a pile of tiles (which ended up being the perfect choice for our DIY entryway shoe tray) stacked up by our fireplace for close to six months now. The dogs kind of bound over it on the way to their bed in the corner of our living room and Alex and I have…
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…