The Arrow wall is gone. RIP! And as you might have gleaned from the title, wallpaper is happening instead. I was contacted by Wallpaperdirect.com who asked if I wanted to try my hand at wallpapering using their wallpaper. Yes, ...

Last weekend we finished the cabinetry work and the counter top guy came and measured for our new shower pan on Sunday, so now we wait while it is being made. It should take a couple of weeks. In the meantime we have been working ...

That is a terrific title. If you think about it. Don't think about it. Toilet room. Probably not my most favorite phrase. But I do appreciate that the toilet is in a separate room from the rest of the bathroom. Ok moving on... ...

When you design a new staircase there are a number of building codes to adhere to and these should be reflected in your plan and in particular in your staircase or you will not pass inspection. Yes, the inspector will come out and ...

Kitchen reveal I have been thinking about updating my Home Tour a bit. Specifically, I wanted a better font for my "before" and "after". I searched online and quickly went to my favorite font source: FontSquirrel.com. Here, I n ...

Here is our new seating bench and storage tower in our master bath remodel. Before, this wall was just empty. I think the previous owners might have just had a table or other piece of furniture here. It looked like this before ...

You are looking at a missing staircase and a future pantry and our awesome stair guy - all in one picture. How great is that! After the old staircase was removed, our stair guy got busy building the new staircase. Why was he ...

Have you ever walked into a house and thought: "Wow, this is a great house, but that staircase has GOT to go!". No? Well, it has happened. Also, I was not a fan of that half octagonal shape in the ceiling there or the beam goin ...

Here is a new dish I made with spaghetti squash. Spaghetti squash is perhaps the most perfect grain free pasta substitute. It has a very mild flavor and the texture is somewhat similar to wheat spaghetti. When you first open ...

Last time we had just completed demo of the old master bathroom and it looked like this: Next we started taking apart the left shower wall to get more light into the shower. We want to put some glass there. The old shower was s ...

We just got back from a gorgeous four day trip to El Capitan Canyon. It's just north of Santa Barbara, CA. We stayed in this cabin above, in the middle of nature. It was awesome. On Monday we saw several deer. Here B is pass ...

You have probably seen a ruffled table skirt before and even how to make one. Buuuuut just in case you haven't I wanted to share how I made mine. I used the long side of some linen that I got at Joann's a while back. Actually ...

Here is our finished laundry room nook in the garage. Let's take a minute to see how it started out. Not much to look at, right? Then we built some walls. And added some chevron to the walls. The yellow is Dylan Velvet b ...

As interesting as the whole bathroom is right now with plumbing, framing and electrical going on, it's certainly not pretty. Unless you find that sort of thing attractive. So while my plumber is here today finishing all the rough ...

Say hello to my little friend my new table top. The old table top was puttied and sanded and then it became painfully obvious that it was not very smooth. At all. So a re-do was in order. A new table top was quickly built. It ...