Category: home
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The Stenciling is Done!
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No big “reveal” yet … but, I’m done with the stenciling! Here’s the dining room wall: Maybe you’ve noticed … this has been cracking us up… we have about 14 bottles of wine out on the dining room table. I’ll get everything back in place and share more of the…
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Stenciling the Hallway and Dining Room, Day 2
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The stenciling continued today; I got through the hallway, and worked my way into the dining room. As of tonight, here’s what’s done: I love the way the pattern looks on the hallway! What do you think? Here’s what I have left to do: Oh, and we might have stopped…
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Stenciling the Hallway and Dining Room, Part One
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On Monday, I started a big stencil project, using a stencil from Cutting Edge Stencils. I’ll give more details in the next couple of days! As of about midnight, I’ve gotten nearly half way through the wall I’m working on. Here’s a sneak peek… Looking down the hallway towards the…
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Master Bedroom: Gray, White, and Turquoise Plans for 2013
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For Christmas, my parents gave us the gorgeous Moroccan headboard from West Elm. I’ve been dreaming about it since the first time I saw it in the catalog. Have you seen it? Moroccan headboard via West Elm We currently have a platform bed from Overstock, in black. So I imagine…
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Favorite Projects of 2012
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This year has been such a journey for me, and for my little family. In February, after Sean had lost his job and we were a one income, we had to look for new ways to make the budget work. And after we did the math, well, we discovered we’d…
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Home Office: Rearranging Furniture for Better Flow and More Room
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While I was visiting my parents a couple of weeks ago my Mom and I decided to rework the flow of their upstairs office together. We put in a few hours’ of work, and I think we came up with a layout that works much better for them, and gives…
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Zoom’s Room: A Green and Brown Toddler Bedroom
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Zoom’s toddler room is not much different from the “nursery” we set up for him at our last place. It’s roughly the same size, and even the layout of window and closet and door is the same. The colors in his room are a lime green, chocolate brown, and aqua.…
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Kitchen Curtains and Desk Revealed
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Last week you guys saw the new wall color in the kitchen and repainted hutch. Now lets take a look to the right of the hutch! Probably you are wondering why I went to so much trouble to redo my kitchen, when I could have simply hired a Montreal kitchen…
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Kitchen Wall Colors & Blog Hop #16
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Yesterday I posted about how I repainted the hutch in our kitchen. You may have also noticed that the wall behind the hutch has been painted, too! We went from a very brown space to an updated gray, which was done in a couple of phases. Just for the refresher,…