Basement Updating: Reality Check Time

We’re finishing a room in our basement as part of a Fall In Love room makeover collaboration with a bunch of other fabulous bloggers. Read more about it and find links to all the other bloggers here. We have ONE more weekend before I’m supposed to show you all my amazing finished basement. I would like to be completely honest … Continue reading

Halloween House Tour

So today I’m doing my first ever holiday house tour, along with five other fabulous bloggers. Thanks so much to Stephanie from Sandpaper and Glue for putting this together. Make sure to check out all the other tours after you take a look at mine; I’m really excited to see what everyone else has done–Halloween decorations are my favorite! Until … Continue reading

Whitewashed Plywood Plank Wall: Finally Starting the Fun Parts!

We’re finishing a room in our basement as part of a Fall In Love room makeover collaboration with a bunch of other fabulous bloggers. Read more about it and find links to all the other bloggers here. At least Dave thought this part was fun. I guess I found the whitewashing part that I did pleasant enough, but mostly I … Continue reading

Halloween House Tours and 50 Questions

Two things today (or maybe 51 things). First off, an announcement: next week, on Monday, October 20, I’ll be doing a Halloween House Tour along with these other bloggers: I’ve never done a holiday/seasonal house tour post before, and Halloween seemed like a good place to start. Because it’s fun and there are gold snakes. Well, I have gold snakes. … Continue reading

Fall in Love: Basement Movie/Game Room

  This is pretty exciting, right? I and those seventeen other bloggers up there are all going to be doing room makeovers of spaces in our houses that are currently hard to love. We’ll talk about them and share progress over the next six weeks and then all the big reveals will be coming to you the week of November … Continue reading

Guest Hosting Thrift Score Thursday!

I’m very excited to be guest hosting Thrift Score Thursday, one of my favorite events in all of blogland, this week. Brynne from The Gathered Home and Trisha from Black and White Obsession are the permanent hosts; everyone links up their thrift (or flea market or garage sale or grandma’s basement or whatever) finds for the week (you can link … Continue reading

Pumpkin Parade Features + Chalkboard Baby Gate

We had almost a hundred great projects linked up to the Pumpkin Parade last week! Thanks so much to everyone who shared their projects! Since this was my very first time co-hosting a link party, it was also my first time getting to pick features. Which was fun, but also a lot of responsibility. What if I picked the wrong features?! … Continue reading

Pumpkin Parade Link Party

All week we’ve been bombarding you with our own pumpkin projects….all twelve of them:   Shift Ctrl Art/ Primitive & Proper/ Decor and the Dog A Little Bite of Everything/ Cuckoo 4 Design/ Newly Woodwards Boxy Colonial/ A Swell Place to Dwell/ Wills Casa Bliss at Home/ Go Haus Go/ Interiors by Kenz Now it’s your turn! You can link … Continue reading

Pumpkin Parade: Sharpie Pumpkins

  Given the finished project that I just showed you here, you might be a little surprised by my inspiration, which is a giant pumpkin painted black. Yeah, they don’t look much alike. I really liked the idea of one big pumpkin sitting on a chair, but I wanted to do a big white one instead of black. Mostly because … Continue reading

Welcome to My Brand New Blog!

Only a couple of months past our original self-imposed deadline, here it is! I’m hoping the design is a little nicer and that things are a little more organized and easier to navigate now. Please let me know if anything’s acting weird from your end! And please update your….whatever you use to follow the blog so that you’ll keep seeing … Continue reading