I have finally finished all of the trim and painting in the dining room that needed to be done before I started on the mural. After having only primer on the walls for over a year, this feels like...
I'm sure you're excited to see that this is only part one of removing carpet glue from concrete. That means there will at least be a part two and you'll have more ugly photos and stories of slow...
I feel like I keep returning to the same decorating bag of tricks with picture frame molding, but it is such an inexpensive and easy way to add architectural detail to a space that it's hard to...
Prepare yourself for one of the ugliest posts ever to grace this blog. Sometimes when you're renovating an older home, things are ugly. It's almost unavoidable. When we first looked at this house...
Can you believe we just passed the two-year mark of living in our current house? I feel like, between years two and three is when our MN home started really feeling like ours and I think the same...
Well, I finally did it. I've been dragging my feet for over a year, but I painted the dining room ceiling. I have been hung up on working on this room just because I knew the ceiling had to be...
I'm getting things lined up to start "dining room mural take two." I painted the mural in my last dining room with very little planning. I just had an idea in my head and used MMS Milk Paint and...
While the walls of our dining room are still only primed, I've been giving it a lot of thought lately and would like to start making some progress on it over the next few weeks. It would be very...
When we were first looking at moving back to the East Coast from Minnesota, I told Jeff I would have to have a pool if we were moving somewhere with hot, muggy summers. I didn't mean that we had to...
When we live in a house for a while, it's easy to become blind to things that should be obvious eyesores. Something that bothered us initially becomes something we don't even notice. Such was the...
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