No, I’m not talking about fall, or pumpkin barf spice everything. I am talking about the One Room Challenge! For this challenge, we will be tackling the front/formal living room. It recently looked like this before I sold my beloved ektorp furniture. We recently purchased a sectional from Costco of all places and I needed a […]
Outdoor Oasis Part 2 – Intex Pool
Back in May, I completed the One Room Challenge of making our deck into an outdoor oasis. That was part 1 of our backyard makeover. The second part of the outdoor oasis involved the pool area. We have been blessed by some friends to have been given two intex pools over the past few years which […]
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 Powder Room
It’s been a while since I’ve shared some of the spaces in our home with you so today I thought I’d share our powder room. This was the last time I shared photos of the space, in the fall of 2011 when I did a wild black and white zebra stencil. We made some minor […]
Gray Kitchen Inspiration
It all started innocently enough. I was browsing pinterest when this pin from HGTV popped up in my feed. As soon as I saw it, I wanted my cabinets to be a dark gray even though I just painted them white not more than a year and half ago. So while I contemplate if I want […]