Our entry spent it’s weekend getting Chip & Joanna-fied aka the shiplap went up. After drooling over shiplap the past few years, I am so excited to finally have a little bit of our own. While we would have loved to have been able to afford real shiplap, it just wasn’t in our budget. So …
Home Life
The first impression when someone walks into your home is important. You want people to feel welcome and at home. Unfortunately, our current space invites people to walk right through it to our newly remodeled kitchen. When we first walked into the foyer of our home, we were blown away at the grand two story …
Farmhouse kitchen was the number one thing on our list when we were house hunting. I knew that I had to have a kitchen full of farmhouse charm (thanks to Fixer Upper), but standing in front of me was a kitchen straight out of the 80’s that was far from a farmhouse kitchen. If you …
I am one of those weird people that actually likes to clean. As long as I have the time, I find cleaning to be a stress relief. Although, when I am extremely busy, I find it to be a lot less peaceful. But even though I like to clean, I find it hard to get …
Want to know how to paint your kitchen cabinets and have them look just as good many years from now? Then I have the method for you. Eight years later, our kitchen cabinets look just as good as when we first painted them. No joke. This method works and is long-lasting. It has survived two …
Looking for some more Halloween books and coordinating crafts and activities? Here is our second segment of our 30 Halloween Books for Kids (and Coordinating Crafts). Are you making something fun with your little one this year? Or do you have a favorite Halloween book that’s not on the list? Let me know in the …
Let’s get straight to the point, our former kitchen was hideous. It was straight out of the 1980’s in all of it’s cherry oak-cabinet glory. It would have fit right in with all of the Property Brothers’ befores. But when we walked into our home with our optimistic rose colored glasses, we saw nothing but …
Are you in need of a printable budget planner? Have you been worried about saving for Christmas gifts this year? Are you having trouble keeping track of your bills of what you’re spending Are you thinking of participating in a no-spend month to get ready for the holidays? Then you don’t want to miss these …
If I could be friends with any famous person, it would be Joanna Gaines. Now, how would I convince her to help me redo and decorate my house, I’m not sure. I spend hours on Pinterest pinning beautiful homes that I will never step foot in. Come on, you know that you do it, too. …
In all of the house projects we have done over the years, there is one major mistake that continues to haunt us. The problem is, it’s a big, expensive, beautiful mistake that we can’t change. No, it’s not the kitchen cabinets or appliances. It’s not the furniture or the television (although my husband does wish …