After 5 weeks of working on my family room for the One Room Challenge, it is finally week 6 and reveal day! I am so thrilled with how my living / family room turned out. That being said, Murphy’s law was in full effect from day one of just planning this room. Not a single renovation plan of […] Read more…
If you didn’t hear my big huge exciting news, I am honored to have been chosen as a featured designer in the One Room Challenge! The One Room Challenge is a 6-week remodeling challenge where you transform a space and share the progress each week. I participated in the ORC as a guest participant last […] Read more…
Not everyone has the space for it, but even if you have a little nook, here’s why you need to add a seating lounge… *This post is sponsored by Better Homes & Gardens brand carried by Walmart. Woop woop! Affiliate links are contained below. I confess, I totally lucked out with a pretty good sized […] Read more…
*Thanks to FrogTape® for sponsoring this amazing project! Somebody pinch me… It’s finally here guys. REVEAL DAY!!! The last 3 weeks (actually 2 weeks for me…) has been filled with bone tiring work to transform my living room for the FrogTape® Paintover Challenge! I’m competing against 6 amazing bloggers (who I actually adore) in hopes that […] Read more…
*This post is amazingly powered by FrogTape®! *super awesome* I’m still pinching myself that FrogTape would choose me among such an amazing group of bloggers to participate in the 2018 Paintover Challenge! In case you didn’t hear, I am one of 6 bloggers in this challenge (in which you get to vote for your favorite space). The […] Read more…
*Special shoutout to Better Homes & Gardens for sponsoring this post! Affiliate links contained below I can hardly believe that this room ever looked this dark and dungeon like. It had come SUCH a long way, and yet it lacked that cottage-y feel that makes you walk into the space and immediately want to sink into the coziness […] Read more…
*This post is awesomely sponsored by my peeps at FrogTape®! What the what?? I have some incredible news guys. Wait for it… I am one of 6 design bloggers invited to take part in a makeover challenge hosted by FrogTape®! Oh wait, you thought that was the only exciting part? Ohhhhh no…more amazing news is that […] Read more…
*This post is awesomely sponsored by Better Homes and Gardens brand found exclusively at Walmart! Guys, I’m so excited to share some big news! After much debate about what to do with our guest house (turn it into a studio? rent it out?), we have decided to turn it into a cute cottage retreat and […] Read more…
Oh great, the movers totally destroyed my coffee table. What in the world would posses them to rip out the legs instead of unscrew them? Now I need a new coffee table…good thing I partner with Kreg each month to build my dream furniture. The great thing about building your own furniture, you get everything you want. I’m sharing […] Read more…
So this was suppose to be a side table for my daughter’s room…well it hasn’t made it there yet, but in my defense I haven’t had a chance to tint it white the way she wants (and other readily available excuses). Haha, no more bad mommy, I’ll move it up there after I get a moment to […] Read more…
First it was a sitting room (really? Are we going to go a’court’in?), then it was an office, then it became a secret guest room hidden in a living room…ok, this space was kicking my butt. Sure, I managed to put it to some practical use over the years, but honestly it just never seemed to come together… […] Read more…
*This post is sponsored by Better Homes & Gardens brand carried by Walmart You guys remember my Great Room right? Or do you call it a Living Room? Well, “living” seemed more accurate since we really do live in there. There are computers/desk space for all three of my girls to do school (we home […] Read more…
Maybe it is because there are two new babies in the family (yay, I’m an aunty!!), but I have never been more excited for the big holiday get-together! You know what this means? Time to get every room whipped into guest ready shape. There are only so many rooms in the house, and one of the […] Read more…
Have you ever had that room that just baffled and vexed you? As if something about it is never “quite right” no matter what you try to do? Unfortunately for me, that is my living room space. Figures, the one room where I entertain my company and spend the most time in is my decorating kryptonite. […] Read more…
To paint or not to paint…that should be the question before painting our upholstered furniture. But sometimes we just dive into a project with our eyes wide shut. After all, won’t our gusto and faith in all things beautiful produce a DIY miracle? Probably not, then we’ll have to compromise our vision, or live in denial. […] Read more…