Have you missed me? I have missed you! I have been busy over on A Home for Crafts making Christmas decor DIYs for our livingroom. The result - 6 projects that I am really happy about and I can't wait to show you. Be sure to follow ...

Here is a project I just finished for a family I know up in Newport Beach (Mr. and Mrs C). They are fellow homeschoolers  and just recently moved down to Newport Beach from LA. They were four months into their new home w ...

Let's talk about our guest / game room. The previous home owners had built an addition to this house adding on a living / dining area below and a master suite above, thereby about doubling the size of the house. When we toured the ...

We have been thinking about getting a table saw for a good long while. The amount of space it takes up has held us back so far. At the moment, we just don't have room for it. Then, this summer when I went to a blogger conferenc ...

This is a new lamp we got recently for the living room. It looks similar to the one I originally planned for our seating bench area in the master bath, only we changed the plan for vanity lights up there, and that in turn changed ...

Let's time travel. Welcome to 2011 when we made some curtain rods. But wasn't today supposed to be all about artwork in the hallway you say? Yes. Yes, it was. Then weather happened. As in "We are having a great deal of weather to ...

Before jumping to today's post, this: On Wednesday, Dana from House*Tweaking featured our kitchen on her blog. It was very exciting to see it over there. I have followed her for a while and love her style. Thank you so much aga ...

Here is the final result of our staircase make-over. From the living and dining room, the biggest improvement is that you can't see the staircase anymore. Or at least it is optional by way of our pocket doors. Our living room g ...

Chesterfield sofas Curtains - They no longer have this color. Coffee table Rug One of the things dh and I have discussed is getting an oriental rug for our living room. You know, a real grown up rug. Something we would really ...

Say hello to my little friend newly dressed up fall mantel. This mantel came together in a very short time. Isn't that the best kind? I went to Michael's yesterday on the way home from the library. We just finished our H. C. ...

I have been on an owl kick since 2007. What can I tell you. Here is a pastel that I made earlier this year and I took some step by step photos while I made it at art class. Isn't he handsome? First I sketched him. Then I added ...

Last week I found this quatrefoil shaped mirror at HomeGoods. It was only $29.99. I have been looking for a new mirror for over the fireplace for a while. The one I had, I had since forever. And with our fireplace remodel being ra ...

You probably did not notice that I had no living room rug in all my Christmas pictures, because I shot around it. I had to return it. Here is what happened. I used to have this rug in my living room. A West Elm Jute Bouclé rug. ...

Ready for the reveal?! After we put in new windows and built an entertainment center, we went from this to this: Here are some more images of the "after" The butterfly on canvas was bought in a small gift shop in Orange, Ca ...

So yesterday, I showed how we added two big picture windows, a taller slider, took out a room dividing beam and dealt with some strange looking duct work. Next up, the floor was layed and we built an entertainment center with ...