When we first got married, we did like many couples, and hit up IKEA hard core. Neither of us came equipped with bedroom furniture, mostly because we didn’t like what we had in our childhood bedrooms. We had to make certain decisions and decided that IKEA Hemnes furniture would do just fine. I have never […]

I am so glad God has blessed me with a handy husband! I have lots of projects I want done, and although my dad raised me to be pretty handy myself, it certainly is nice to have a man around to do the heavy lifting… oh, and the math! I really adore Pottery Barn’s style, […]

Friends, I bring something to you that I hope will make your lives a little bit easier… and… prettier 🙂 We were inspired after visiting a friend’s house to make our own baby gate for the bottom of our stairs. I was tired of endlessly chasing Evie up them, or yelling at her to come […]

My hubby and I are sort of hopeless DIYers. If we know we can build something for cheaper than it would cost us to buy it, we’re usually pretty on board. However, I will say, by the end of those projects we ask ourselves… was it really worth saving XXX amount of money? Sometimes the […]

This DIY Coat Rack was another brilliant idea of my husbands. We have a very long wall in our entryway and he came across a rustic pegboard in HomeGoods one day. At the time, we decided not to get it, because we weren’t sure what we were doing in the entryway yet. I had the […]

I saw THIS console table on Pinterest and fell in love! I was hoping the post would lead to a DIY, but it didn’t. So, I had to DIY it myself! You could likely do this table, VERY cheaply. It looks like in the original photo the legs are just old porch posts and the […]

I have been itching to do a chalkboard wall for about a year. Through moving, then renting, then waiting for our house to be built… the time is finally here!! I wasn’t exactly sure where we would put our chalkboard wall, since our house doesn’t really have a “mudroom” or secluded entry area. I was also […]

So if you recall back a month or two ago, I shared with you the before pictures of our living room and said I would share with you in an upcoming post the dresser that we remade. Well, here it is! The living room, by the way, is almost complete… hopefully by the end of […]