Are you furnishing your new home or first apartment, and you need to figure out how much to budget? Or, maybe it's time to refresh your living room or bedroom furniture, and you're trying to figure out how much it's going to cost you? This post will help you understand [...]
Ah, the dining room...a place for relaxing meals with family and friends. Or, maybe it's your laundry-folding meets craft projects landing zone? No matter how you use your dining room today, there will probably come a time when you'd love your dining room to look sleek and sophisticated for guests. [...]
This post contains affiliate links for your shopping convenience. It’s no secret that I'm a huge fan of relaxed, casual, modern farmhouse-meets-coastal design. In the past couple of years, this style has been given a name in the design world - California Casual. I'm working on updating a few rooms [...]
I'm BACK! When I said in my last post that school was kicking my butt (way back in October), I wasn't joking. My full time class load ended up taking about 40 hours a week of my time, and it became a habit every Sunday night (close to midnight) to [...]
Hello! We have a project in work in our bathroom this week, but it isn’t quite ready to share yet. So, today I thought I’d give a little tour of our home. I’ll show the remaining rooms over several future posts (so I have a chance to straighten them up as [...]
I'm so excited to share with you today that our dining room makeover is finally finished! The dining room has been a work-in-progress in our house for months years - wow, that's a little embarrassing. What used to be just a large, boring dining room is now the most beautiful room in the [...]
I'm not a seamstress, and I have actually never taken a sewing class, but guess what? I made some DIY dining chair slipcovers!! If I can do it, so can you! I'm gonna share with you the tutorials I followed, and the steps I took to create some really simple, [...]
Have you ever walked into one of your rooms and thought, "wow, this room needs a makeover"? Well, that's what happened to me one day, and we've been working away ever since to update the room and create a fabulous custom built in dining room hutch. Here's a pic of [...]
