This isn’t one of those never-buy-this-product posts. It will also be pretty evident that this isn’t a “sponsored post.”  You know, those ones that have the disclaimer at the end where the blogger says that they were paid, but they …

The first pillow cover that we’re working into our family room arrived over the weekend.  It’s gorgeous.  It’s thick and soft and well constructed.  I mentioned I wanted to introduce chocolate as an accent color when I talked about our …

Or, “How to move your ceiling vents”….orrrr, “Make way for crown molding!” There aren’t a ton of online tutorials about moving your ceiling vents to a different location (I couldn’t find any–which made this project even more nerve-wrecking), but that’s …

Our blog was nominated for a Homie award for best DIY blog! So honored. With so many inspiring blogs nominated in our category, we don’t expect to win–but if you are a reader, we’d love your vote of support as …

Guess what is happening this afternoon.  I’m gonna try to contain my excitement during the process.  I don’t want to be a total weirdy and watch and stare the whole time–but playing it cool has never been my strong suit. …

Tuesday night was sheetrock night.  It was also the night where we renamed the paint color in our home “Drywall.”  Isn’t the color eerily similar to the paint on the walls?  Nuts.  I’m sure we did things unconventional, but like …

We got the drywall up last night, but we still have to do the mudding and taping so we’ll save that post for tomorrow so I can give the full rundown on how we checked “walls” off of our to-do …

Cheesiest, most expected title right?  You love it.  Last time you saw this wall, we had just finished demolition and it looked like this: Now, a few sick days and several stubborn concrete nails later, it looks like this: Chris …

Whew!  This weekend involved a lot of sneezing, coughing, crying and me attempting to make soup for my sick babies (Greta and Chris).  None of it was pretty, especially the soup part.  Thankfully, everyone is feeling loads better which means …

Yesterday, we let you see what fun it was to take that silly half wall down–but we can barely wait to build things back up in a way that makes more sense to us than a random wall/shelf two-thirds of …