If you’ve got kids, then you probably have the same problem as most of us. What to do with all that art? It can quickly take over your counters, your fridge…your entire house! Today I’m going to show you our solution to the kids’ art dilemma. Read on to find out how to make a…
Big Brother has needed somewhere to put little keepsakes for sometime now. They’ve been piling up in his dresser drawer. When I bought too much cork for another project, I realized I could use the extra cork to make him some bulletin boards. I started out by looking for some extra frames around the house….
When we first found our house, one of the many things I loved about it was the window seat in the living room. I’ve always loved the idea of a window seat. Here it is before we moved into the house. As you can see, it needed a little sprucing up. The first thing we…
We recently were able to buy a backyard play set (swing set) for the boys, and I thought I’d share some of the photos from while Jeremy and my dad were building it. There were A LOT of pieces. Jeremy says that there was not a single piece that you didn’t have to put together….
For a long time, I’ve dreamed of having a huge table. I wanted something that our whole family could fit around at holidays and birthdays. Big tables are pricey though! Then we came across the idea of building a table. The cost was considerably less and we were able to find detailed instructions via Pinterest….
We moved in early December and have quickly discovered our new hobby…our new house! We knew coming into it that it needed a lot of updating, but we fell in love with the house nonetheless. It has the perfect layout for us and is in a fantastic neighborhood. We started work on Day 1 and…
With 2 boys in our family, we have an obsession with all things that go. So when it was time to convert our nursery into a “big boy” bedroom, a transportation bedroom was the natural choice for a theme. Bye, bye, cute nursery… Hello Big Boy Room! Little Brother has become obsessed with trucks, cars,…
Sharing our laundry and vanity area last week got me thinking about a couple other things we’ve done around our house to maximize space. The first area is our oldest’s bedroom: We knew moving into the house that it was a small space, so from the beginning we made use of the vertical space by…
When you live in a smaller home like we do, every little bit of storage space is needed. Our master bedroom closet is shaped like an “L”, but the lower part of the L didn’t have any closet organizers in it when we moved into the house. Wasted space! Since we don’t have much space…
We have a large wall that runs the length of our living room that was just begging for something to fill it. Big pieces can get pricey, though, so I got creative. I printed a favorite photo that I took myself in the Colorado mountains and printed a 20×30 poster size of it at Costco…