Checking in and some (very) small updates

Hey! Just one of those “I’m still here” kind of posts. Ari is now seven days out from the national deadline for picking a college, and….he still hasn’t picked one. That’s consuming an awful lot of everyone’s energy around here lately. At least mine and Dave’s and Ari’s. We spent spring break doing college visits (Macalester and St. Olaf and … Continue reading

Ikea Curtain Hacks Four Ways: Or, Goodbye Superkea Sunday (for now)

I bet you guys keep thinking one of these days I’m going to fade away entirely, don’t you? But no, I keep coming back! Occasionally. Eventually maybe things will be less crazy around here and I’ll….nah, probably not anytime soon. Right now we’re deep in the heart of college decision season for Ari. He applied to ONE MILLION schools (alright. … Continue reading

Plans for an all ages kid/teen Bath, maybe with a vaguely nautical theme

I should be bringing you another dining room post this week, but I got distracted by the kids’ bathroom instead. Wait, did I say distracted? I meant inspired. Uh huh. The kids’ bathroom has never been blogged about, because we haven’t done a thing with it since pre-blogging days. Right after we moved in, we painted it and hung mirrors (house … Continue reading

Vintage Bison and Modern Chandelier: Dining Room Progress

Post contains affiliate links; if you buy something after following my links, I receive a small commission (but you don’t pay anything extra). Thanks for supporting Boxy Colonial! If you want to make my thirteen year old, Gus, really mad just go ahead and call American bison “buffalo.” I dare you. He really doesn’t like it. And so you will never … Continue reading

2019 Plans: Mostly the House Kind, plus Looking Back at 2018

Hey, it’s 2019! 2018 was one of those years where it seemed like we weren’t getting much done, but when I look back at my plan post from last year it turns out we did…not so bad. I mean, it helped that we didn’t have too many things on our list for the year. Let’s take a look, shall we? … Continue reading

Happy New Year! And Christmas 2018

Happy New Year, everyone! I have two songs on my Christmas playlist that express opposite sentiments about looking back at the year that’s coming to a close. Reliant K’s “Boxing Day” tells us, “we’ve had a good year; now let’s have another,” while Queen muses in “Thank God it’s Christmas,” “Oh my friends, it’s been a long hard year” and … Continue reading

Some Small Updates

I know it’s been very slow going around here with the posts, but we have been doing some stuff–so I thought I’d check in with some updates despite the absence of anything….finished.  For example: remember my brand new bathroom that I did a big reveal about a few weeks ago? I changed something in there already: Can you spot the … Continue reading

A Cozy Christmas Family Room

Post contains affiliate links; thanks for supporting Boxy Colonial! Our den is my very favorite room to decorate for Christmas (and, indeed, it might be my very favorite room, period). The dark colors are made for winter, the mantel looks much happier with stockings, and nothing says Christmas quite like an enormous green shelf begging to be filled with manger … Continue reading

Halloween 2018!

This is the first year I haven’t managed a Halloween decorating post of any sort, which is kind of a bummer, but….things are busy and all that. Next year! Maybe! I hope! Because Halloween decorating is fun. We did do a little bit of decorating, just nothing exciting enough to blog about (I mean. I guess I’m kind of blogging … Continue reading