I’ve managed to carve out a little space in our tiny bedroom for a makeshift vanity for myself thanks to a couple Ikea pieces, some paint, and several nails.
So on to Part 1: The Mirror.
Every vanity needs a mirror, right? And my little nook majorly needs storage for my rapidly growing jewelry collection. [...]
Seriously, though, no pun. Well, maybe a little pun.
I just recently completed our photo wall in our master bedroom (WHEW! SOMETHING ON THE WALLS!), hanging a total of nine pieces. Each is framed in black, though no two frames are the same. So what did we choose to hang in our bedroom?
1 and [...]
We have lived in our house juuuuuuuuuuuust short of two years. Hanging on the wall in the master bedroom? Absolutely nothing. Nada. For two years. Even our friends who pet-sat noticed and commented about it!
So I went foraging through the house for picture frames to put things in and hang, with the idea in [...]
My husband Rich issued me a challenge over this long weekend:
For two months, I may not purchase anything new for the house BUT I must keep working on projects for the house. The exceptions: a $20 limit on supplies and a $10 limit on things from thrift stores/ yard sales/ junk shops/ etc. (I [...]
I just looked through my archives and realized that I never actually got around to putting up pictures of our family room since we’ve finished it. Whoops! So without further ado, here you have it: our finished family room project. We really couldn’t be happier with it!
So, to refresh, this is what the room [...]
So, Rich’s parents arrive here in Sunny Florida from Freezing North on Saturday, along with one of my little brothers who is away at school up there, and we’ve been doing a minor overhaul of the guest room in preparation. This means that every one of the three times they will have visited our house, [...]
We have painted our. entire. family. room.
This was a major project, requiring around 36 total hours of work. No, really. To paint one room. The family room is very large- around 18′ x 18′- and has three walls of wood paneling and one wall of heavily textured plaster. Ripping down the paneling and drywalling [...]
Let’s take a photographic trip down memory lane….
Stage 1: Before we moved our stuff in.
Stage 2: Immediately after moving in.
Stage 3: After the flood.I actually didn’t take any pictures of this. It was too scary. EVERYTHING WE OWNED was in this one room.
Stage 4: Moving things around.
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After 4 days of hard work on the stereo cabinet, it is finally complete, put back together, set up, and plugged in. Rich loves it, and so do I. Here is what it looks like:
And here is what we did:
1. Removed the lid, speaker panels, and all of the hardware.
2. Sanded down the [...]
I’m almost done with it, but here are a couple sneak peeks at the goings-on!
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