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Shop my Home + Source List House 2 – The Farmhouse If you’ve seen something in my house and want to know more about it, then you’re in the right place! I’ll go room by room and link to each item in it. If it’s a DIY project I’ll link to the post about it,…
House 1: Tour + Sources On this page, you will find all the information about my first home. Before and after photos, links to all the DIY projects and products used. This home was three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and 1650 square feet. It was purchased in 2008 for $133,500, and as you can see, it…
My second home was a farmhouse that my husband and I designed ourselves. It was 3,000 sq ft and had three bedrooms and two and a half baths. We hired a builder to build the shell out the house (walls, roof, electrical and plumbing rough in, HVAC, drywall, etc) and spent the next six years…
Alright, who’s ready for an interior house tour? Fair warning, this is not some beautifully staged, perfect house tour that you find all over home blogs, this is a very unfinished and unpretty tour so you know exactly where the house stands. Today I’ll show you the main living areas (areas in red below), and…
Alright y’all, here comes one heck of a post. I’ve been chipping away at it for months…it’s pretty much my masterpiece. Enjoy. 2016 was a great year. Adam and I worked on building our house, moved into it, sold our old house for more than we thought we would, had a baby, and generally lots…
It’s master closet reveal day! I showed y’all the fully installed but empty closet over two months ago, then I had a baby, the holidays came, things got crazy, and the final reveal has been a long time coming. First and foremost, I am so in love with it. I’m not usually one to gush over things,…
From the time I started sketching up our new house on graph paper nearly two years ago, I knew I wanted a vintage farmhouse sink for the kitchen. Not a modern apron front farmhouse sink that are popular today, but an antique one from the 20’s or 30’s. Those weren’t my only demands though, no…I…
This post started off as a simple “tips to sell your house quickly” post…but then it just couldn’t stop writing and it kinda turned into a brain dump on everything. So keep reading if you want to hear about how we sold our house in a day (for over the asking price!), how much profit…
If I’ve learned anything about DIY in the last 5.5 years of writing this blog, it’s that it’s all about the sealer. You could do the most awesome job ever on a project, and if you don’t seal it correctly it’s all for naught. I knew I needed an amazing sealer for my concrete countertops,…
If you’ve ever built a home, you know how big of a deal drywall is. It takes your home from feeling like a cold, empty skeleton to something you may actually be able to live in (and decorate!) one day. Last time I wrote about the house we had just filled our skeleton with spray…
It’s been over a month since I’ve blogged about the new house and you’re probably wondering what the heck is going on. Honestly, not much… it’s kinda slow going these days. Well, I say that..but since the last update we have had plumbing, HVAC, electrical, and the fireplace installed. Which is actually a lot, it’s…
Last time I updated y’all on the overall house progress the framing had just been finished, and it looked like this… And now, it’s looking a little more like a house. Walls! Windows! Kinda a roof! It’s actually been progressing very slowly….it just won’t stop raining. As soon as the house gets dried in (which…
If there was ever a post I was super excited to write, it is this one. Our house is framed! YAY! I love it even more than I did on paper. It was so fun to watch it go up…and it went up fast! The whole thing was done in about two weeks by a…
One of my goals with this new house is to have the actual house have personality, not just the stuff in it. Most new homes I see these days (I know because I stalk realtor.com for fun, still) are big, beige, drywall boxes. Even the expensive ones…they’re all the same. I want this home to…
So today is my official due date. This baby is fully cooked, I’m horribly uncomfortable, and the doctor said at my appointment on Tuesday that it doesn’t look like this kid is planning to come anytime soon. Darn my comfortable uterus! I was really hoping to have this kid a few days before the due…
My friend Abby has lived in a tiny old farmhouse for a while, and recently her and her husband renovated and expanded it to be their forever home. Their new house is fantastic…it’s roomy and open without being huge. Plus it’s on 13 acres…so it’s basically my dream house. I should really do a house tour…
A few times a month I get e-mails from readers wanting to know which paint colors I’ve used in my home. I can’t help but cringe when I get those e-mails because I have the worst, least helpful answer EVER…. that I mixed them myself. The green in my living room, bathroom, and laundry room…
Three years ago today I started Domestic Imperfection. For the first two blogiversaries I put together giveaways as a thank you to my readers for all the support. This year I didn’t plan anything though, mostly because it’s a whole lot of work and only one or two people win things. So instead I’m going…
For years now I’ve kept our ironing board in the tiny hall closet, wedged between the door and the shelves. As soon as you would open the door the ironing board would hurl itself at you, eager to be needed. Fortunately for me and unfortunately for the ironing board I usually just caught it, got…
So….front doors. It’s one of the first things people notice about your house, one of the first thing that tells visitors anything about the people who live inside. Our door didn’t tell people much…it didn’t tell them that I like color, nor did it tell them that Adam is a wood snob. The only thing…
Last updated October 6, 2023 Let’s talk about that space above your kitchen cabinets for a second. You know, that useless space that does nothing but collect dust and cause design dilemmas. Do you decorate it? Leave it? What if there was a third option where that space disappears completely? Something ultra budget-friendly that makes…
Welcome to my house tour…it’s been a long time coming, right!? Currently my empty house tour tab is one of my most clicked things on my site, yet there has never been anything in it. To think of all the poor DIYers and curious souls I disappoint every single day. No more! So welcome to my always…
If you’re here for the first time, then welcome! If you are a regular around here then you may be wondering what the heck the bloglight is all about… allow me to explain. Hometalk is a website where you can share home-related projects, ask home-related (and gardening) questions, and find a ton of inspiration. Hometalk is also very supportive of DIY/decor/home bloggers, and each week they choose a different blogger to feature. And this week it’s me!
Miriam (the Director of Community over at Hometalk) sent over a few questions for me to answer, so here we go!
I started my blog in February of 2011 on a whim. Actually it started way before that with me Google-ing project ideas to update our new house. Google started leading me to home decor and renovation blogs…. I remember stumbling across Young House Love, The Lettered Cottage, and Thrifty Decor Chick all in one day. I don’t think I got off the computer at all that day, and when Adam got home I excitedly told him about my discovery. Before that I had no idea that people wrote blogs about house stuff, I had really just thought that blogs were for moms to write about their day-to-day lives and teenagers to share their teenage angst/poetry/selfies with the internet. So kept reading and discovering more blogs for…. months. Then one particularity uneventful day, sitting around my quiet house (with my then 11 month old Elijah) I thought to myself “the projects I do are as good as some of these online people…I should start a blog.” So I googled “how to start a blog”, found blogger, and signed up for a free account.
A better title for this post would be “Pinterest Challenge: Part II”, since Pinterest Challenge Part I was a big ‘ol flop. To jog your memory, here is the rubber mat I painted and ended up hating… and here is the mat (from marthastewart.com) that I should have made… Now if there is one thing I…
When I started debrowning my living room a few months ago, the little space between my couch and chair looked like this… It lacked personality and frankly looked a little sad. Then I added my crappy $5 table and things started to look up a little. (Pardon the awkward toddler, this is the only pic…
Making your own curtain rods is super easy and super cheap…. it’s a project you can do even if you’re not a DIY kinda person. I made a rod for just under ten bucks, including all the hardware. . The secret to the homemade curtain rod is electrical conduit, which you can find at any…
February of this year I started Domestic Imperfection on a whim. I had been reading lots of craft blogs and thought “I do all this stuff, I should start a blog.” And start a blog I did. I had no idea what I was doing, which was okay because I didn’t really figure people would read…
(That post title is more relevant than you think…our first apartment actually was in an old school!) . Recently our laptop broke, and as I was transferring all our photos over to the new computer I noticed I had a bunch of pictures of our apartment in NY. I thought ya’ll might be interested to see, so…
A few days ago I posted about the lampshades I made for our ceiling fans. I also mentioned how much the husband hated the (very girly) fabric I choose to cover them with. Despite hating them, he did say “If you like them that’s all that matters”. Awwww, so sweet. Now I really had to change them….