Quick update on my bathroom mini-reno!
I ran into a couple of glitches… Okay, so a lot of you know I’m working on a mini-reno on my bathroom. I’ve hit a
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Shiny new things for the bathroom…
My plans for upgrading the bathroom with some shiny new hardware and a new faucet.
Furniture finds for my new Parisian Pink office
I’m still tweaking my new Parisian pink office space, but I wanted to share a couple of the fantastic furniture finds I’ve added that are helping pull it all together.
My new French Chic office in Parisian Pink!
I’ve always loved French chic decor, and I’ve always loved pink, especially Parisian Pink. So it’s only natural that I’d decorate my office with a French chic vibe in my favorite pink color.
My plan to redecorate
It’s hard to believe we’ve been living in our “new” home for five years! FIVE YEARS!!! How can that be? I mean, it seems like
My first video! Come visit my kitchen.
Come visit my kitchen. I’ll be your personal tour guide as I show you around in my very first video.
A major upgrade for my yellow kitchen
Anyone who knows me, knows I love my yellow kitchen. I love the color. I love the butcher block countertops. Recently, my yellow kitchen
Feeling at home and enjoying the deck
I’m sitting out on our back deck with my cup of coffee and a book. Obviously, I’m not reading my book, since I’m writing to you.
How French doors will look in my sitting room
I have wanted to put French doors in our sitting room even before we ever closed on our house, and my husband has always said
Easy ideas I used to transform our ho-hum bedroom
I transformed our ho-hum bedroom into a cozy retreat, and I didn’t need to spend thousands for a complete makeover. I’m sharing some simple inexpensive
A Christmas home tour, while I’m kicked out of the kitchen
Merry Christmas! Jim kicked me out of the kitchen while he makes our family’s traditional Krumkakes, so let’s do a Christmas home tour. Come on
Painted all the doors black and they look so elegant
Well, they’re mostly finished. I still have to paint the closet doors in Jim’s office. I’m thrilled with how they all look, and I’m loving
Painting interior doors a dramatic black
I finally started painting our interior doors. It has been on my list of things to do since before we moved in, and I really
What I love and hate about my house after a year
We’ve been living in our new house a little over a year now, and there are some things that I still love and some things
Repurposed piano bench is now a pet feeding station
Having two new kittens has meant rethinking some things we’ve never really thought about, like where to feed two cats instead of just one, and
I wanted a porch sign, so….
I’m sure you’ve seen all the super cute signs people are hanging on their porches to add some curb appeal and make their porches more
See how I updated our fireplace
When we bought our house, one of the things we loved was the fireplace, but we weren’t in love with the brass trim on the
Exterior color: Which do you like best?
I was playing with Photoshop and added landscaping, window boxes, a yellow door, and different options of siding colors to our house. Which one do
One year in our house! Lots of before and after pictures!
I cannot believe we’ve been in our house for one whole year!! Where has the time gone? I remember thinking in January that our house
Solution for sliding your heavy Kitchenaid mixer
Anyone who has a KitchenAid mixer knows how heavy they are. They weigh a ton. I love mine, but because it’s so heavy, if it
Small change in the kitchen — Huge impact
Something in my kitchen has been bugging me big time ever since my dishwasher was installed. To fix it, I recently made a small change,
My “haunted” dining room table
My “Haunted” Dining Room Table October is only a couple days away, and the internet is alive with “haunted” stories and Halloween decorating ideas. You
Mini bathroom makeover
The finished cabinet. Paint and new hardware made a huge difference in how our bathroom cabinet looks. It also made a huge difference in how
My favorite time in our house
The days that I enjoy my house the most are the days when it’s raining. I know that sounds weird, but it so relaxing to
The Scene-Stealer in My Kitchen
When you go through all the work to completely renovate your kitchen, you expect it to be the star of the show. You hope your
My French Country Kitchen
I love my new house!!! And I especially love my French Country Kitchen. I don’t just “love” it. I LUUUuuuvvvvv it! It is my happy
Sneak peek at our finished 1950’s ranch reno
After SIX months of renovating the 1950s ranch home, we bought last summer, the time has finally come to move in! In honor of this long-awaited
Preview of the renovations
We are finally winding down with our renovations! The electrician and the plumber have both finished up there work, so now we’re down to little
We have running water again
Our kitchen was gutted on September 26. For the past three months, we’ve been using the wash tub in the basement or the bathroom upstairs
More Progress on Renovating our 1950s Ranch Kitchen
What the kitchen looked like after we took possession of the houseand how it looked yesterday, December 7, 2015. We’ve accomplished a lot. It’s just
Before and progress on renovating our 1950’s ranch
Yesterday, I promised an update, so here I am with an update on our progress. Normally, I would share “Before & After” pictures. But problem
Our 1950’s ranch gets new flooring
When we bought our 1950s ranch, we thought it had hardwood floors everywhere except for the addition, and that we’d be able to refinish the
A week of renovating our 1950’s ranch
We finally got to the point where Jim just couldn’t continue doing work in the house piece piece after work. So he took the whole
Opening the wall between the dining and living rooms
Opening up the wall between the living and dining rooms made a huge difference!
1950’s Ranch kitchen renovation plan
When we first looked at our new house, we thought we loved the kitchen. The cabinets looked in great shape and they go all the
The window awnings come down
Some changes are so simple yet so significant, that you wonder why you didn’t do them sooner. Taking down the window awnings at our new