Life is filled with moments. These are mine.
When we moved into our house, the fireplace was ugly–dingy brick, black grout and a terrible insert. It didn’t take long before we removed the insert, but it sat with the ugly brick for several months before I finally painted it white with a black high-heat paint for the inside. And that’s how the fireplace has looked for […]
It was decided early on that when we have a kid, the smallest of our three bedrooms would become the nursery. Though small (approximately 8ft x 10ft), it’s still a great size for a nursery and it only has one exterior wall so the temperature is easier to control. Until a few months ago, the nursery was […]
I’ve always loved the look and the idea of having a tree stump as a side table. It’s such a fun way to bring a natural element in to your home’s decor. Luckily for me, we had to have a couple problematic trees cut down last year. We kept the wood from one of the […]
Three years ago we first started talking about getting the front of our house re-landscaped. It was ugly but it wasn’t awful, so we kept putting it off. That was until this year when we noticed the railroad ties were rotted through and basically falling apart. Both of us were excited by the idea of […]
Our landscaping project wrapped up last week, and we’re really happy with it. I want to wait to do a full before & after until more of our flowers start blooming and some grass grows back. Currently there’s straw along the new wall and our hydrangeas haven’t bloomed. However, the new blanket flowers, veronica speedwells […]
So the door under the basement stairs has been an issue for probably two years. The idea was to always have an angled door under the stairs so we could make use of that area for storage. Well, we certainly made use of the area but the door was put on hold for a variety of reasons… […]