Our family's journey of turning our house into our home
The table I painted two years ago is showing some wear. It was the first furniture piece that I attempted to do. I used Rustoleum Furniture Restoration Kit, which I had been reading about in various blogs saying it works well. But what I didn’t notice is that none of the furniture they did was…
So in January of this year I started updating my island. And like I said in my previous post it looked good till you saw it from different view. The cabinets on the island were screaming to be painted the same color. The also had wear on them so it wasn’t like I was painting…
Our front porch is large, as in wide. When we bought the house I had asked the sellers for their front porch furniture. There was two sets of chairs and two side tables. They looked okay but soon realized we also have a lot of space on the back porch to fill. So we split…
This is what our TV stand looked like last week. We’ve had the TV stand since late 2008. It was a Walmart purchase and probably still cost close to $100. I’ve been eyeing TV stands for awhile and the ones I’ve been liking have easily cost anywhere from $200 to $500 dollars. Like the one…
I get blinded in my kitchen every day in the afternoon. I’ve been toying with many ideas how to cover the window. The past owners had black blinds, that isn’t my thing so they came down and were put in the trash pretty much right away. I have always had a bit of a…
Paint is fast becoming my best friend. When we bought the house we noticed there was something missing in the kitchen. In fact there was cabinetry wrapped around a space that was intended for something, but that something wasn’t there anymore. A refrigerator. My kids liked playing in the space and with the wood that…
I am really kicking myself, like really really. The basement bathroom was a sight to behold and mostly due to the color of the walls. They. Were. Bright. Blue. No joke, they took 3 coats of primer and 2 more coats of color to finally stop seeing the blue. I took the paint can image…
I am not the most patient of people (brief pause for laughter from my family), so looking back I wish I would have taken the time to take a lot more photos of the house before we started changing things. The light in the stairwell for instance, it was a weird shape and the gold…
Our realtor might have been hesitant to show is this house. We had told him we wanted “move -in ready.” Another friend of mine told me she wouldn’t have bought this house based on the many many projects that needed to be done in this house. However, when we described the location of our house our…
White cabinets are on trend currently and eventually we will be getting the cabinetry painted and most likely it will be white. But my eye really gravitates toward having two tones in a kitchen. Whether it is one tone on top cabinet and a different on the bottom or it’s the island that is the…