Category Archives for "Progress Posts"

I’m working on my remodeling my master closet these last few weeks. The original plan was to build everything from scratch, but I nixed that and made a road trip to Ikea last weekend and bought a couple of Malm dressers. Today I’m spending a lot of time procrastinating the painting of this book shelf […]

Craft room transformation seems like a lofty title, but I assure you that this will be a huge transformation of this space in my house!!  I am not a naturally neat person, my natural inclination is to organize in piles, I have a hard time letting go of even the most inconsequential drawing(s) that my […]

I know I over think my projects before I even buy the first board.  I know I do it and I can’t help it.  Every time I tell myself to not be so uptight about the plans.  And every time I spend hours and hours drawing up every aspect of it. Oh well!  Here’s evidence […]

I’ve had plans to change our dining room into an office/den/project area for a long time now.  We actually went out to a kitchen cabinet place with the intention of them pricing out unfinished wood cabinets for the room year ago–long before I ever picked up a circular saw.  I was going to paint them […]

Hi all!  I had a recent question in the comments from Kelly asking for close up photos of how the batten meets the baseboard when I posted my Laundry Room board and batten project.  Since it was awhile ago, I had to go back and review the five posts on that project.  But I was […]

With the holidays quickly approaching, now is probably not the ideal time to jump into a new project, but that doesn’t appear to have stopped me before!  I am knee deep in a new built-in for our living room.  I’m finding that I am getting quicker with all aspects of a build– finally.  But I […]

Boy was I ever rusty in my woodworking skills for this build!! I’m glad I am here to show you that multiple mistakes during a build can still result in a usable piece of furniture… 🙂 First off, my plan. Wherever did I think that I could fit the amount of shelves I had planned […]

I promised plans today and here they are!  Hopefully I’ll be seeing how a sheet of plywood fits into a Honda Pilot today.  A Home Depot employee and I had a discussion on this matter several months ago, and he assured me that the old model Pilot fit a sheet with no troubles, while the […]

Yowza, it’s been awhile!!  The beginning of my new job was a whirlwind–up until this point, my part-time job was pretty much full time hours, but I am hopefully at a point that I can begin tackling some new projects here at home.  I am really excited to get going!! The project I chose to […]

Holy guacamole was the kids’ bathroom project ever going to get started??!! The creative juices were running dry for this one…and the motivation wasn’t exactly flowing either. But it is at least a good jump toward finished now. You may recall (or you may not, it hasn’t exactly been that recent) that the kids’ bathroom […]

The hard parts are over!  Now for our DIY closet organizer, we just put the pieces together. First put your side pieces into the closet.  Put a shelf in the bottom and at the top of your shelf pin area on each side.  Then use a level to make sure that the shelves will be […]