Our upstairs hallway is ready for its final reveal. Even though it is 'just' a hall way, this space packs a lot of punch in our home. There are several nice storage features and conveniences built in that you may not see at first ...

Something big is happening on this site. And it is happening now. And later. I love organizing and I am not a big fan of clutter. And that was what I was seeing on my website. Clutter. So I took out my broom and swept. Then I sat ...

Did your kids grow up all of a sudden, leaving behind a large collection of tracks, trains, trees, buildings, mountains and more? That is what happened here. Long gone are the days of building train tracks spanning from one room ...

Have you heard about this idea for gift giving to your kids? It was an idea that I saw floating around in our homeschooling community Christmas before last and it was new to me. The idea is that you give your kid(s) four gifts al ...

Home office make-over, oh what a long, drawn out project you have been. But now you can stick a fork in it. It is done. Our office is set up with the desks facing each other to form an island in the middle of the room and then be ...

We are in the process of making over our home office. We have made several DIYs that I am excited to share with you soon as well as of course some room reveal "after" photos. Today I am sharing how we untangled and cleaned up our ...

Before the year runs out, I want to revisit something that happened this fall while I was en Denmark. We had three rooms published in the new book by John and Sherry Petersik of Young House Love: Lovable, Livable Home. I say revi ...

For the price of the left side of this sofa (!) you could furnish a three bedroom apartment. Let's try that. This post was inspired by three things: two years ago I made an (unofficial) IKEA dream home + blogger style house with ...

Shift Ctrl Art is now mobile friendly! I switched over to the new design a couple of days ago and I am still tweaking here and there.  I am trying out a new blog design without a left or right hand bar to really have a minima ...

The wait is over. Our master bathroom remodel is completed. And we just passed our final inspection this morning! Woot! Here is what the bathroom looked like before. We kept the existing layout and reused the tub and several o ...

There is an update on our master bath progress at the bottom of this post. Let me tell you about the new abstract painting I made for over the bench/tower combination in our master bathroom that Frank and I built in there. Here ...

When Frank's birthday rolled around in December, I gave him a weekend trip to Palm Desert. We have taken a few trips there over the years. This time I had picked the Omni Rancho Resort from a friend's suggestion. Due to this, t ...

Today is the last of our four weeks of Dare to DIY. I never met a challenge I didn't like and this has been so much fun. Today's project is a continuation of my white and brown nature inspired Christmas. I started out right aft ...

Let's get some presents under that tree. And why not make them handmade. I love to give edible gifts and then do a craft around the gift wrapping. I made a 'berry Christmas' strawberry candy with liquorice in the center. Then I ...

Well, here we are at the first of four craft parties for the holidays. Here is what my co-hosts and I have been cooking up for the first challenge: Dare to be thankful. My Merci Beaucoup fall vignette, Crazy Thankful sign by Mic ...