Our teenage son recently went on a week long trip to visit old friends. While he was gone, we decided to surprise him with a bedroom make-over including giving him some much needed closet organization. We built the organizer ourse ...

The time has come, the time is now ~ Dr. Seuss To show you the final reveal of B's tween bedroom make over. It all started way back in November 2012, when I put together an Advent calendar for B. One of the gifts was a little ...

I never showed you the last wall in B's bedroom. I know...pee your pants with excitement. Oooh a wall. It is, however, the wall that has actually seen the most change in his room. The previous owners of our house added on the ...

I made some new pillow covers for B's bedroom. I have been very inspired by Swiss crosses the past few months. And check this out: a friend of mine, Julia at cuckoo4design, posted this breathtakingly beautiful new hall way make ...

I have had some further questions about how we built this bed for our son B. These are the posts I have already written on the subject: IKEA hack: B's bed with trundle How to make a tufted headboard Oil based primer and latex pai ...

I am so excited to tell you that our white desk just got featured over at IKEAhackers.net this morning. Just as I am about to share how I made the shelves for that wall. We had some Ekby Bjärnum shelves from when I designed a tod ...

I love our new Kreg Jig. It's so easy to use and it gives you great professional results. When I say easy to use, I mean easy to use after you have figured out a few things. As I mentioned in my tutorial on how to build our white ...

Yesterday, I showed you the finished blue wall with the new desk and some shelves and a gallery wall. Today, I am back to share our tutorial for how we built the desk. We used 1x4 for the legs and 1x3 for the frame under the de ...

It's that time of year again when Young House Love and Bower Power host their quarterly Pinterest challenges. I love these challenges and luckily I was in the middle of a project that fit perfectly when they announced it. The ...

As I am getting ready to finish the next wall in B's room, I have been looking at all his artwork to pick and choose what I want to DISPLAY on his big blue wall. See how the word of the month just popped up there What is the w ...

You have been wondering how I hung that cubby in B's room, haven't you? I can feel it... No worries. Here is my over well photographed, over explained tutorial on how I did it! I used some card stock from an old file folder. ...

Fair warning: long post alert. Remember when we Installed the new hand rail on the deck off the master? And we got the wrong width at first? Then we bought some more wood and finished that project leaving us with a bunch of 2x6 c ...

We made the Mario art yesterday (instructions). I am participating in this Pinterest challenge with my new faux fur chair. I mentioned these two inspiration pieces in my original mood board post back in October. I later re-did t ...

New to Shift Ctrl Art? Welcome! At the top of the page I have links to a tour of our home, a page with all the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) projects we have done. You can also find favorite posts, recipes, artwork and much more. Want to ...

Here is the latest progress in B's room. I hung some spray painted cardboard letters above his head board. You know, just in case he forgets what sound to make at night I love to decorate with letters and I chose these because ...