An IKEA hack stacked plywood desk for Ari’s very, very slow room makeover! Putting your own top on Ikea’s Alex drawer units to make a desk is not a revolutionary idea, as a quick glance at Pinterest will tell you. But it is, nevertheless, what we did, and we put a bit of our own twist on it by using … Continue reading
We’re in the middle of the very long process of replacing all of our upstairs carpet with bamboo. As in, it’s been going on for years now, and I’m not sure when it will be complete. But right now we’ve done three out of four bedrooms, so I feel ready to talk about the big question of how it’s all … Continue reading
I promised this post way back in September when we finished the kids’ bathroom. I did not forget! I hope you haven’t all been waiting and waiting and WAITING to paint circles on your walls ever since then. Anyway, here it is! When we redid the bathroom, I knew I wanted round mirrors for it. There’s a vaguely nautical theme … Continue reading
I’m going to do a big post with lots of details about the deck building process, things we learned along the way, and whether we’d go the DIY route if we had it to do over again….but for today I’m just going to show you the pretty pictures. The back of our house has a screen porch (well, it used … Continue reading
Post contains affiliate links. Thanks for supporting Boxy Colonial! I was always planning to make a bear shaped chalkboard for Abe’s room. Right up until the very day when we were all ready to make a chalkboard. And then I sat down to try to sketch out a bear profile for Dave to cut out, and….I couldn’t get it how … Continue reading
post contains affiliate links; thanks for supporting Boxy Colonial! You know, I don’t think I ever put it together before that we’ll be finishing Abe’s National Parks room (knock wood) the same year as the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. We’re real good at planning that way. Back when I put together the mood board for Abe’s room, … Continue reading
Do you know how long we’ve been working on this seemingly tiny and simple project? I’ll tell you how long. ONE MILLION YEARS Or maybe like two months. But, at any rate, an absolutely ridiculous amount of time. And I’m not going to give you a step by step tutorial for two contradictory reasons: 1. It’s so simple you … Continue reading
Post contains an affiliate link. If you go buy the awesome thing I am about to tell you about, I’ll get like 10 cents or something. Thanks for supporting Boxy Colonial! I’m not sure I’ve ever been as excited to see a long weekend as I am right now. This whole school year promises to be extra crazy, between Dave … Continue reading
One of the most bittersweet experiences a DIY blogger can have is completing a project, having it turn out really well, and knowing that the pictures of it are going to suck. Because it’s a small, dark closet. Sigh. It’s like I’ll have to derive satisfaction and fulfillment just from having done something in my house that will be attractive … Continue reading
We’ve been planning to make these shelves since…..last fall? A long time. And then we finally got around to the buying the copper back in the beginning of March, and STILL we did not make shelves. Because we were afraid. Also because our original plans were thwarted and we had to regroup. The shelves were supposed to be floating shelves … Continue reading