Sometimes the things we have to do around the house are more practical than pretty. Such as when a door won't fully close because it is sagging. Meet our door to the office: As you can see it was severely sagging to the point ...

This is what our entry hall way looked like this Monday. There is of course a story of how we got to that, because it started out as a yellow box, like all the other areas of our home, but that is for another day. Including the ...

Our kitchen is over on HouseLogic.com at the moment! I am in the same article as TheLetteredCottage.net... weeeeeeeee ----- So last week I showed you our outdoor patio dining area. We hung up some globe lights over the dining ta ...

After yesterday's post, I thought we were due for some pretty pictures. Who's with me on that? Ok, great. We tackled several projects on the patio this year. Here is a list with links to all that was done if you feel in the ...

Welcome to our LochMess monster that was our garage until last Saturday! Feast your eyes one these beautiful pictures. And a slightly different angles, because just one picture of LochMess is not enough. You might remember that ...

Last Friday I showed you how we tricked out our ironing closet. Today, I want to share how I made the new cover for our ironing board. As you can see, the old cover had seen better days. It has quite a few water stains. The c ...

Remember at the upstairs hall closet reveal when I said that the upstairs hall was done except for flooring? I remember. I had just shown you what was behind doors 1 through 6. Then a couple of days later I opened doors 7 throug ...

Today I am coming to you from the Daily Decorator, Tracy's blog. Tracy is taking a breather to focus on getting healthy after coping with dis ease for a while. She is asking other bloggers to help out with posts in the meantime an ...

Two quick things: - Thank you so much for all your fantastic comments on our post: Kitchen reveal: before and after pictures of our kitchen remodel - how it all came together.  We so appreciate each and every one! Thanks! - ...

Here is our kitchen all remodeled with the new appliance wall on the right, new cabinets throughout and as you can see the bulk head for the vents is gone, the ceilings have been squared off and the kitchen layout is more symmet ...

You may remember the last time I talked about our kitchen I shared how we decided to go with IKEA cabinets and before that, I had shown you the demo and remodeling that went down to even out some of all the ceiling heights I talke ...

Back in 2005, I met a bunch of women through an annual scrap booking contest - Hall of Fame - that was held by the national scrapbooking magazine Creating Keepsakes. For this contest, you had to create ten layouts for your entr ...

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 ...

This weekend we had excellent weather and we put it to good use, getting outside and working on getting the patio back together after all the work was finished. I will post links to all the previous posts of our patio make-over ...

I went through our Home tour page and updated all the rooms with color swatches and Valspar color names or closest match. I posted them all under each room and you can see a "before" and "after" photo of each room. The "after" ...