When we moved into our house over 2 years ago, we knew that at some point we wanted to remove the half wall that separated our living room from our dining room. The problem was, we were pretty sure that its a load bearing wall and we really didn’t want to find out the hard […]
Painting Painting and More Painting
As we continue to paint our oak trim white, here is another picture of our progress so far. Enjoy!
Cabinet Door Chalkboard Tutorial
Pinterest if full of posts from people using cabinet doors to make chalkboards. This post is no different but I thought I’d show you how I did mine! I knew that for Christmas, I wanted to be able to give out something that I had made that I knew people would like. We, coincidentally, had […]
Craigslist Dresser Makeover
I love shopping Craigslist but I usually don’t buy most of the stuff that I want too. If the price isn’t too high, I tend to not want to drive all over to pick stuff up. I don’t have a truck or a trailer so most often, it takes me two trips to get things […]
Messy Door Jamb – Update
I just realized that I got so wrapped up in our Board and Batten project that I forgot to update the Door Jamb replacement job that I did! As stated earlier, I had to do this repair because the previous owners had used wood putty to cover an old metal plate and that plate was […]
Board and Batten Coat Wall
It’s done! It took awhile to complete as our schedules are really crazy right now but it’s done and we are very happy with how it turned out. I will be writing up a full tutorial as time permits but for now, I just wanted to get this out there for all to enjoy. 🙂 […]
Slow Progress
Slowly making some progress on our coat wall. Purchased 2’x4′ sheets of MDF at Home Depot so its taking a bit longer to put up and I have to actually cut each piece before I nail it to the wall. I’m also applying some wall compound to the edges in order to help with the […]
Growing Project List
It seems that every time I turn around or go on Pinterest, I find another project that I want to start. The problem with that is it makes it really hard to concentrate on the project at hand. Case in point, I have been looking at ways to redo the arches that go into our […]
SketchUp Addiction
A friend recently introduced me to SketchUp and I cannot stop using it!. What an amazing (and free for personal use) tool for the DIYer. One of my biggest hurdles when coming up with a new project is how to best design it so that I know what its going to look like ahead of […]
Messy Door Jamb
Now that I am painting all of our Honey Oak Trim white, I decided that I should fix a little issue we have with the trim around our front door. The trim next next to the door latch was sticking out about a 1/4″ from the rest. This was caused by the previous owners doing […]