Hello friends. Time for an ORC check in for week deux or two if you’re not french. We had a lot of big changes happen last week, paint, accent wall. carpet and arguing over which furniture goes in which room. To recap, Angela sold a vision of the front room complete with the new sectional […]
ORC – Week 1 Our Living Room – Decorating around a sectional I don’t like
Welcome friends! It’s my favorite time of year, the ORC! This will be my 5th time participating and I can’t wait to see what everyone is doing. Here’s a quick recap of a few rooms I’ve done in the past, one being our Sexy Master Bedroom and another favorite, our Sexy Master Bathroom. Now […]
ORC Week 6 – Reveal of the Outdoor Oasis
It’s reveal day! AH! Six short weeks ago I decided to start the ORC and use our deck for the “room.” We had to restain our deck this year so we figured it would be a good time to really make the deck somewhere that we wanted to hang out. With springtime in Minnesota […]
ORC Week 5 Outdoor Oasis
It’s time for the week 5 update, ummmm……didn’t I just start this 2 weeks ago? This week our accomplishments include, staining the old handrail and installing it, finding dinnerware, putting up most of the gazebo and we even managed to order the rope lights and clips and even start installing it! We’ve still got […]
ORC Week 4 – Outdoor Oasis
Well, I don’t have a lot to update on this week. We did manage to finish staining the deck last Friday. My man took the afternoon off from work as we had a small window in which to stain before it rained, again and again, oh and then again. Ruby’s pretty excited to be […]
ORC Week 3 – Outdoor Oasis
Well friends, the weather in Minnesota this past weekend was so amazing! Sunny with temps in the 70’s made it the perfect weekend to stain the deck. Between the two of us, we managed to get two coats of stain on all the railing and even some on the aluminum spindles, womp womp. I’m hoping […]
Week 2 ORC Outdoor Oasis
Hey friends! It’s been an exciting week around here, most importantly, the master bathroom made it’s magazine debut, thanks to This Old House for the feature! Week 2 already and I’ve accomplished, um nothing. Well that’s not completely true, I did buy three boston ferns from Home Depot last week when they were on sale […]
One Room Challenge Spring 2016 – Heading Outdoors
Spring is here and that means it’s time for the One Room Challenge! If you’re unfamiliar with the One Room Challenge, Linda from Calling it Home asks a group of 20 design bloggers to makeover a room in 6 weeks, blogging about their progress along the way. There is also a link up every Thursday that the […]
The Blooming Hydrangea blooms again
Hi friends, Spring is coming, I can just sense it in the air, can you? At one point in my life, Spring to me was just a muddy, brown, rainy season of transition that was in between winter and summer. Honestly, it was my least favorite season, just something to endure to get to summer. […]
2016 Home Goals
My husband and I enjoy thinking of the new year and what goals, dreams and projects we have for our home. I haven’t made a list for a few years, in fact the last one was in 2012 which by the way is a pretty comical post, you should read it. So what better time than […]