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DIY

A Front Yard Facelift and a New Parking Pad

October 24, 2018 - 22 Comments

First things first, exterior improvements take tiiimmmeeee and money. Holy Moly. While the majority of our blog chronicles our interior renovations, every year we tackle a little more of our exterior and we’re finally at a place where I imagined …

Design

First Look at our Cabinet Line with Semihandmade! (Plus, Which one We’ll Be Using in our Cabin Kitchen)

October 22, 2018 - 52 Comments

Today is a very exciting day for us. I briefly mentioned back in this post about all the major finishes in the cabin, that we had been working on our own cabinet line with Semihandmade for over a year now. …

DIY

Affordable & Easy to Install Garage Organization Options

October 18, 2018 - 39 Comments

This post is part of a paid partnership with Lowe’s. Over the past year we have swapped out our garage doors, garage door openers, and put an epoxy coat on the floor. The saga finally came to a close this …

Design

The One Surprising Thing We Would Change about our Bathroom

October 16, 2018 - 71 Comments

We’ve been using our newly remodeled master bathroom for 5 months now and it still feels like a dream. Almost every day, either Chris or I comment on how wonderful, beautiful, functional or worth it it was. All the painstaking planning really …

DIY

Chris Cooks: Classic Marinara Sauce

October 14, 2018 - 10 Comments

I always have a few cups of this sauce in my freezer, because it can be used for dozens of quick, delicious dishes. And when you make the sauce yourself, you get to control the salt and sugar content, which …

Decor, Our Life

Casual Friday

October 12, 2018 - 5 Comments

Projects

The Wood Floors at our Cabin

October 10, 2018 - 41 Comments

This week, our contractors finished installing the new wood floors on the main level of our cabin and it CHANGED EVERYTHING. We really debated and mulled over flooring options before landing on these. We wanted something rustic (because, hey, it’s …

DIY, Projects

16 High-Impact DIY Projects Under $100 from our Archives

October 8, 2018 - 5 Comments

We’ve done thousands of DIY projects over the near decade we’ve been blogging. But some of our most favorite ones fall in the quick, cheap and easy. Here are 16 of our favorite easy, but high-impact DIY project that won’t …

DIY

Chris Cooks: Pumpkin Chili

October 7, 2018 - 24 Comments

It’s October, and pumpkins are lining everyone’s doorstep. The unfortunate thing is many of these pumpkins are thrown away after rotting in the cold, instead of realizing their full culinary potential. This chili doesn’t just use pumpkin because it’s that …

Projects

Painting The Doors at the Cabin + A big Sneak Peek at the new BLACK Exterior

October 2, 2018 - 21 Comments

This post is sponsored by HANDy Paint Over the last week, the exterior of our cabin has been getting a new, slick black paint job. We hired out that part of the painting to avoid getting up on the nearly …

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