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August 29, 2018

Vaulted Wood Ceiling (from cedar fence pickets)

In the process of building our house, Adam and I messed up. We knew that we only wanted the builder to build the "shell" of the house and leave the rest for us to DIY, but what we didn't realize (no one along the way did... I'm guessing people don't finance half-built houses very often) is that in order to close on a construction loan, the house has to be 100% finished. This led to a giant, stressful, drawn-out mess when we tried to convert the construction loan to a mortgage. Our solution was …
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Filed Under: Home Improvement, House 2, Master Bedroom, Projects, Upcycling21 Comments

April 5, 2018

Rustic Wooden Blanket Ladder (for free!)

There is this empty wall in our living room that has been begging me to put something on it, something large but with a slim profile.  A framed picture would be too small, furniture would be too big, but a wooden blanket ladder....well that would be just right. So I decided to make one myself, and the best part is that is was an easy project that I did for free using branches scrounged up from the yard.   Materials needed: branches - two large ones, 3-4 smaller ones using …
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Filed Under: Decor & Crafts, DIY Decor, Living Room, Projects, Upcycling7 Comments

live edge coffee table

October 9, 2017

Wood Slice Coffee Table

So this morning I woke up at 6 am, made breakfast, made lunches, got the kids ready for school, finished that last little bit of homework, found everyone's shoes, and made it out the door in time to meet the bus. The boys and I waited for about 20 minutes (while getting attacked by mosquitos) and the dang thing never showed. Since we are at a new stop (just added last week), I figured they forget us and went to get the car to drive them to school. Well guess what? Turns out it's Colombus Day and …
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Filed Under: Decor & Crafts, DIY Decor, Furniture, House 2, Living Room, Projects, Upcycling19 Comments

modern farmhouse style barn doors

September 28, 2017

Double Sliding Barn Doors for the Office

Remember that time Adam and I DIYed some double sliding barn doors and it was the biggest fail ever? Well I'm happy to report that we have learned from our mistake and these sliding doors are a complete success. I love DIY, but many times it is just not worth it. Considering this hardware was about the same price as the failed DIY hardware (that now sits in our garage taking up space) I'd say DIY barn door hardware is forever on the "just buy it" list. Alright, so here is the story of the …
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Filed Under: Building/Woodworking, Decor & Crafts, DIY Decor, Home Improvement, House 2, Living Room, Office, Painting, Projects, Spaces, Upcycling29 Comments

September 8, 2016

DIY Basics – How to Recover a Dining Room Chair

*Thank you to HomeRight for sponsoring this post, all thoughts and opinions are 100% my own. After writing this blog for nearly six years I tend to assume that my readers are all DIY masters. A lot of you are, but new people happen upon this blog everyday, many of which have never DIYed a single thing. So If you are new to DIY then a great place to start is reupholster a dining room chair. It’s easy to do, requires minimal tools, and old chairs in need of new new fabric are everywhere. So …
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Filed Under: Decor & Crafts, DIY Basics, DIY Decor, Furniture, Projects, Upcycling9 Comments

September 2, 2016

A Corrugated Metal Ceiling

I know I keep talking about the hailstorm that hit earlier this year, but that dang hailstorm seems to have led to a lot of other things...like rustic beams instead of fake ones, a quick sale of our old house, and now a practically free metal ceiling in our living room. Since day one Adam and I have planned to put a metal ceiling on the living room and master bedroom of our house. We have always loved the look, and we were so sure about it that we even had the sheetrock crew leave the ceiling …
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Filed Under: Building a house, Home Improvement, House 2, Living Room, Projects, Spaces, Upcycling, Walls28 Comments

November 20, 2015

How to Make a Lego Table

I've been so concentrated on building the new house that I haven't done a project in a good long while. I finally have one for you today though, a Lego table! Last month Levi (my middle son) turned four. Four. I remember blogging his birth story like it was yesterday, and now he's my four-year-old middle son. Crazy. Anyway, I made him a Lego table for his birthday. He loves it, my other boys love it, and I kinda love it too...despite the fact that it lives in my living room and has a …
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Filed Under: Furniture, Kid Crafts, Playroom, Projects, Upcycling46 Comments

July 19, 2015

Round Inlay Table…err, Wall Medallion

Three years ago I stenciled a dining room table for my in-laws using the Indian Inlay kit from Cutting Edge Stencils. It turned out gorgeous, but admittedly took me forever to do since the stencils comes in a bunch or small pieces (which also makes it super versatile). I remember a few of you asking if you could use this on a round table, and at the time you couldn't. Since then Cutting Edge has come out with a round version of this stencil (two actually). As great as that news is, …
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Filed Under: Decor & Crafts, DIY Decor, Furniture, Projects, Stenciling, Upcycling16 Comments

November 25, 2014

Tomato Cage Tables

Sometimes I get the itch to try a project just for the heck of it. Even if I think it will fail, or look horrid, or be a total time-suck...I just want to give it a shot. These tables are one of those projects. I've been wanting to bring some gold into the house somehow, and I figured guest room bedside tables would be a great way to do that. The first thing that popped into my head was a gold wire table, mostly because I've seen them all over the internet (Pinterest) and they are stuck in my …
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Filed Under: Decor & Crafts, DIY Decor, Furniture, Guest Room, Projects, Upcycling25 Comments

October 22, 2014

Upcycled Giant Chalkboard

A couple of years ago I made a chalkboard for my kitchen/dining room area. I use it every single day for my household to-do list. It's probably one of the things in my house I use most (that's not an appliance, computer, or sink). Recently the boys have taken an interest in it, and each day they drag their little step stool over to the chalkboard and go to town writing all over my list. I let them too, because seeing their little doodles and chicken scratch letters is way better than …
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Filed Under: Decor & Crafts, DIY Decor, Furniture, House 1, Kid Crafts, Kids Rooms, Projects, Upcycling7 Comments

December 18, 2013

Empty Frame Christmas Ornament Art….or something like that

Alright, today we have Christmas craft number two! I really enjoyed spending time with my glue gun for craft number one, so we (that would be me and the glue gun) decided to keep a good thing going and we made these things (I honestly have no idea what to call them)... Materials - Empty frames Spray paint (I used Colonial Red by Rustoleum) Hot glue gun and glue sticks Miniature ornaments Twine, string, cord or something similar   I started out by collecting some …
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Filed Under: Decor & Crafts, DIY Decor, Holiday, Projects, Upcycling17 Comments

June 28, 2013

Make Your Own Birdbath

This project is an easy one, though it still started off as a DIY fail. So the first part of this post will be the perfect sparkling tutorial on how to make your own birdbath...then I'll let you know what NOT to do. I made my birdbath out of a terracotta pot, saucer, and an old brass lamp...but you can really use anything. Go crazy. The motto here is "if you can glue it, you can do it." I literally JUST came it with that. First I cut the cord on the lamp base and pulled all the extras …
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Filed Under: Decor & Crafts, DIY Decor, Outdoor, Upcycling42 Comments

April 30, 2013

15 Ways to Give Your Furniture New Life

Let's face it, buying new furniture is expensive. So expensive, in fact, that I've never actually done it (besides couches, because I'm not awesome/crazy enough to DIY a couch). There is also the problem that new furniture is, well... boring. To me it all looks the same and  basically has zero personality. A great (and super cheap!) solution to this is to redo old furniture. But what do you do with your ratty old thrift store furniture once you get it home?   1. Paint it a fun …
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Filed Under: Decor & Crafts, DIY Basics, DIY Decor, Furniture, Projects, Roundups/Reviews, Stenciling, Upcycling58 Comments

March 28, 2013

White To Green – A Dresser Before & After

I'm slowly chipping away at my boy's room renovation. I've paper bagged the floors and were about halfway done with planking the walls. My next victim was this dresser/changing table. It's really feminine, plus it's slowly turning from a nice crisp white to more of a muted yellow. Wait though, that's not the actual before picture. Get ready for the worst before picture of all time. Yes, that is our master bedroom circa 2008, a few months after we bought our house. It literally hurts my …
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Filed Under: Decor & Crafts, Furniture, Projects, Upcycling72 Comments

February 27, 2013

Kids Step Stool (with Yardstick Steps)

I do projects around here when there is a need. Or a want, wants are project-worthy too. In this particular case I needed Elijah (who's in full potty training mode) to be able to turn on the bathroom light by himself. Enter - the need for a step stool. Or the want, cause I don't want to stop what I'm doing every twenty minutes to turn the lights on for him. So perhaps the motives behind the step stool were actually selfish. Whatever, I'm okay with that. I told Adam my selfish desire for a …
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Filed Under: Furniture, Kid Crafts, Projects, Upcycling

February 19, 2013

$5 File Cabinet Makeover

One of my "loose goals" for 2013 was to buy a real file cabinet and finally take control of paperwork in our house. Why is it that it is sooo easy for paperwork to get out of hand? My command center has helped a bit, though only in my kitchen and only with recent paperwork. The rest of it is still a mess.  My current "file cabinet" is too small and stuff comes busting out of it and then never makes it back in. Exhibit A: There is also an exhibit B, C, D & E, but I'll spare you. So the …
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Filed Under: Decor & Crafts, Furniture, Projects, Upcycling88 Comments

January 25, 2013

Yardstick Framed Kid Art

Happy Friday! I had fully intended to post three easy projects this week, but then Friday was here and I hadn't blogged about anything. Ahh, life. It happens. So I'm in the process of decorating my new kitchen shelving and have been doing lots of small projects for them.  This particular project started when I was cleaning out my craft closet and came across a painting done by Elijah, it's the first time he had ever painted. I remember stuffing it in a bag full of scrapbook paper because I …
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Filed Under: Decor & Crafts, DIY Decor, Kid Crafts, Projects, Upcycling33 Comments

January 7, 2013

Kitchen Command Center

So this whole command center project started one day when I was at World Market...I saw this one and thought "man I could really use a command center in the kitchen". I kinda sorta liked this one, so I looked at the price tag...it was nearly $80 bucks! It's just some plywood, chalkboard paint, trim and a basket. I bet I could make it for $15... probably less since I have most that stuff on hand. So, I (of course) decided to make my own, more original, more useful  and more unique command …
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Filed Under: Cleaning and Organizing, Decor & Crafts, Dining Room, DIY Decor, House 1, Kitchen, Projects, Upcycling136 Comments

December 6, 2012

Crazy Easy Placemat Pillows (and Napkin Pillows and Dropcloth Pillows)

So pillows. We all love them and use them. We like them for comfort, we like them for decoration, we like them to add  color to our neutral couches. The more the merrier really...except for one little problem. Throw pillows are freakin expensive. Not like Rolex and Mercedes expensive, but even cheap pillows are $20-$30 a pop. I've seen plenty a pillow go for well over a hundred bucks and that is insane....especially in my house where they are just going to get peanut butter and boogers wiped …
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Filed Under: Decor & Crafts, DIY Decor, Projects, Sewing, Upcycling70 Comments

September 9, 2012

Upcycled Porch Entry Table

 It took me forever to come up with a title for this post. The one it ended up with isn't that great, but its better than "Antique Dumpster Vanity Mirror Holder Thingy Turned Faux Outdoor Entry Table", or a variety of other things I things I came up with. So a few days ago I showed you this broken old vanity top that was found near a dumpster... and how I turned the mirror frame into this chalkboard. I wanted to use all the pieces of it (what can I say, I like a challenge) and when I …
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Filed Under: Decor & Crafts, DIY Decor, Furniture, Projects, Upcycling83 Comments

September 4, 2012

{Another} Chalkboard For The Kitchen

I love that when people in my life see old junk lying next to a dumpster, they think of me. I love it even more than those people put that junk in their car and bring it to me. My aunt is one of these people, she found this antique broken vanity top/mirror/thingy and thought I could do something with it. She was right! As soon as I saw it I knew it would be the perfect replacement for my kitchen chalkboard that I was never really in love with. (I also have something fun planned for the other …
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Filed Under: Decor & Crafts, DIY Decor, House 1, Kitchen, Projects, Upcycling26 Comments

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