Category: home

The front door has gone through a couple of changes. To be fair, the whole time I have lived here, I have had multiple doors. Usually, one might look for a consultant or look through a door buying guide before selecting a new door, as purchasing a new door involves…

Our dining room has been a work in progress since we moved in ten months ago. Here was an early view of the room: This setup wasn’t working for me because everything in the room was so angular. There were no soft corners, just hard lines, rectangles, and right angles.…

Zoom doesn’t really like to bathe. I get it, he’s 2 years old. He doesn’t like it when we wash his hair. Maybe our bathroom is a little … sterile? uninviting? for a two year old. Even with all of these toys, he hasn’t ever really taken to the bathtub.…

I’ve been using Pinterest to list my 2013 home projects. It’s been fun to go through all of my pins (which I categorize by rooms) and then moving a few to another board, when I finally decide it’s a project I want to tackle. The ones listed here are minor/medium…

A couple of weekends ago, I tackled a few small updates to our front entry area. The hardware around the door had four different metal tones: black, brushed nickel, brass, and gold. So I decided to update all of it with a little spray paint – Rustoleum’s Oil Rubbed Bronze:…

The stenciling job in the hall and dining room is complete! It took about 21 hours to do this, working over three days. You can read about the updates of each day here, here, and here. Here’s a picture from before we moved in, with the previous owner’s furniture. Note…