Category Archives for "Home Improvement Projects"

It’s a beautiful day for painting! We just had a shed built in the last few weeks and decided to paint it ourselves to save some money. I love the look of our Woodshed, as the Hubs has taken to calling it, even though we won’t store wood in it. It’s the name of the […]

Happy New Year! I hope your 2012 was a good one, and that 2013 is even better! I enjoyed looking at what I got checked off of my to-do list last year, so I thought I’d do it again this year. Thanks for indulging me 🙂 I started off 2012 declaring that I would finish […]

Woohoo the reveal!  I love. love. love this closet organizer.  I couldn’t be happier with it.  More importantly Pip is happy with it and she is excited that she can find all her stuff in there now! The viking hat got a place of honor 🙂 Dress up jewelry for now! What do you think?  […]

I missed my blog anniversary back in October so I thought I’d sum up the last year at the end of this year. Looking back is so rewarding, especially seeing the before-and-afters. I started this blog as a way to kick me in the behind and start actually making a reality, the ideas I have […]

Are you tired of seeing those ugly washer and dryer hookups in your laundry room?  This beginner woodworking tutorial walks you step-by-step through how to hide washer and dryer hookups. This is an easy solution for hiding your laundry room hookups that lets you flex your beginner woodworking muscles.  But don’t let this easy DIY […]

Are you thinking about installing a ceramic sink in your kitchen? I’d like to take a moment to give you a word of advice about ceramic sinks and my experience with one in my own home. My aunt warned me about ceramic sinks long before we built our house. I don’t recall how we got […]

I’m starting to get itchy–before now I was submerged in what I was doing, but now that I’m getting to the end of the stint I took on, projects are starting to poke into my temporary bubble of “no DIYing”. The one that is threatening to pop it is a sign for the laundry room. […]

Done!  The board and batten is done! I’m going to admit something other blogs may never do–I had an evening with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach because I had most of it up and I wasn’t loving it.  Literally a sick stomach.  I was SO SO SO sure that I was […]

I’m itching.  And it isn’t the season for poison ivy.  It’s cold outside and it’s the Christmas season.  I shouldn’t start any big projects.  I CAN’T start any big projects.  Right? So I tackled a small project.  Apparently the transom above our front door had been slowly de-velcroing (I’m pretty sure that’s a word).  I […]

Can you hear that? I believe I hear angels singing. I love, love, love the results. Something I have learned after completing this project? It is difficult to take interesting pictures of your door hardware. These were the best that I could do. A peek at what they used to look like: Fixing blunders: A […]