To kick off our kitchen remodel, the first thing we did was remove the boring fluorescent light above our kitchen sink. Who likes a plain light anyway?? But now we needed to replace the light. After searching for the perfect light, we came back with not a single one we liked or thought would work in our space. So the only solution was to make our own pendant light. Are you … [Read more...]
Fixing Chipped Concrete Steps
When you have a home over time things can start to break or crumble right below your feet. There are many different ways this can happen (like our old pipes...) but today we are talking about concrete. Our back and front porches were starting to crumble at the corners and sides. Here is our front porch. And here is our back porch, this one is the worst... After … [Read more...]
DIY Cheap Kitchen Backsplash
Do you like the look of subway tile? I do and I really wanted to have that look as my kitchen backsplash. But as always I am trying to save money, especially after redoing our main line... But it you are renting a place, you could also do this using contact paper... Here is our DIY subway tile backsplash, please look past the cabinets still working on them. Can you guess … [Read more...]
DIY Barrel Chair
Well I didn't get enough after last time, so I upholstered another chair, here is my previous chair. This chair is a barrel chair that we actual found before the other chair. We really liked the style of the chair. We bought it on the classifieds, from a sweet man who was moving and did not have room for it. But with most used chairs it had some problems. This biggest … [Read more...]
DIY Full Length Mirror
I feel that everyone needs a full length mirror. But if you are cheap like me, you will only buy the $6 one at target. Yes it gets the job done but it has no character. And they are flimsy. My kids broke the last one we had by sitting on it. Don't worry no one was hurt. It's been my fear that was going to happen again. So I decided to DIY my full length mirror. I wanted … [Read more...]
DIY TV Console
We have been in need of a TV console or TV stand for a very long time. There is nothing physically wrong with our current stand, it's just that our little guy can now reach the TV and we also want some DVD storage in the stand. So out came a sketch paper and some Pinterest looking. Here is a great tutorial on a DIY TV Console that we modeled ours after. This is our final … [Read more...]
DIY Tree Stump Table
We have this love for wood!! It's a deep love for crazy cool wood detail. I dream of old homes with cool old wood detailing and really anything wood, can you see we have a problem? Anyways, you get the picture that we love wood. Lately, I have been seeing homes with stump coffee tables, to say the least I was hooked. I showed Eric and we were hook, line and sinker, we had to … [Read more...]
DIY Window Trim
It's official our windows are completely done, well almost, only the one above the kitchen sink is left. But we are going to finish that one when we repaint our kitchen cabinets. But here are the steps we took to install our window trim. Let's start at the beginning, when we purchased our home in February of 2013 we found out very quickly that our windows were not very … [Read more...]