Transformation Tuesday

Piece-by-piece, we’ve spent the last few years transforming our house from the mix of mid-century modern furniture from our old house and hand-me-downs to fill the space to a cozy,…

The inspiration struck me to swap our breakfast table around to our formal dining leaving us with a big hole in our breakfast room.  Let’s be honest, it’s our most-used…

I’d seen this DIY weathered wood finish and was intreaged.  This powder promises to be a quick & easy way to that gorgeous weathered beach wood look that’s becoming increasingly…

The word “up-cycling” makes me cringe.  It makes me think of so many projects I’ve seen where some well-meaning would-be-crafter takes some sort of perfectly good (but potentially dated) something…

I’m so thrilled that sewing is finally coming back into style.  Or crafting for that matter!  At last, folks are appreciating artisan-made goods over generics Made-in-China.  I think we have…

Our kitchen… one of those projects that seems so simple until you spend literally years in the middle of it.  It was well worth the wait, though!  It looks amazing,…

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Our Mid-Century Modern kitchen remodel was featured on Apartment Therapy’s The Kitchn yesterday.  This was one of my all-time favorite projects. We started with great bones that had suffered from an…

If you saw the sweet-glam make-over we did for Chloe’s school surplus desk on my study, you may remember the desk looking a little lonely over in that corner all…

Before Randomly salmon kitchen island You haven’t seen much of our kitchen lately because it’s a mess of beautiful-but-honey-colored cabinets with our new, beautiful glass knobs, new quartzite counters, new…

Summer has been keeping us busy with all things summer… swimming, watching movies, building snowmen named Olaf, general mayhem, be have a little update for Cora’s room. I recently shared…

Working from home with 2 little kids is certainly an adventure.  I came up with a great idea to help them feel empowered AND to buy myself a bit more…

GIVEAWAY ALERT! Scroll down for a chance to win an airless paint sprayer from HomeRight! Congratulations to Sharlene P for winning this amazing Giveaway! In the first part of this post,…

Now that the weather is warm and beautiful, its hard to remember what a cold, crazy, wet winter we had.  I remember it quite well because just at the beginning…

I just love it when we have a need for a piece and find something we can use that has a family history and costs us nothing more that the…