Furniture Feature Friday – Favorites & a Link Party
What a week! If you read my blog regularly, you know I’m always up to something, but this week has been back-to-back DIY projects. Grouting Monday & Tuesday, upholstery Wednesday and working on counter tops today. I wish they were installed and done, but we made great progress. We still need to finish cutting the […]
Grain Sack Chair
I’m still plowing through my list of freelance articles (all 30 of them), so today I worked on a tutorial showing how to reupholster a small armchair. See that yellow French chair under the window? That was my subject. It took a couple of hours to get her all stripped down and ready for […]
Painted Cabinets
In June of 2011, I painted my kitchen cabinets. I had been itching to since I first walked through the house that became our home. Several things stopped me. Number one was my husband. He just wasn’t ready for me to paint over perfectly nice wood cabinets. Number two was that we had two babies […]
The Wonders of Grout
I actually had to dig this photo out of my computer’s recycle bin. I was embarrassed at the gaps and, while I had faith in grout and caulk, I wasn’t eager to share the full frontal shot of my first tile job. So, instead I showed shots where my imperfections weren’t so in-your-face. Well, here’s what that […]
Thank you, Arkansas
At the risk of sounding like a total dork, why is it pronounced Ark-an-SAW instead of Ark-KAN-sas? Just curious. I went on another whirlwind weekend trip to teach some workshops and do a book signing. This time, I went to Fayetteville, Arkansas. I knew nothing about Arkansas, so I asked the ladies in the workshop […]
Choosing Grout & Hanging Drapes
I received a few opinions on the grout choice for my kitchen back splash and it made me take a look at my choice again. I do read your comments and take them to heart. I had bought gray grout, but the more I thought about it, the more I was unsure about the gray. […]
Living in Upheaval
I only have a small idea of what it’s like to live through a kitchen renovation, but I know enough to know that it’s pretty disruptive to a household. One of my dear friends had to gut her entire kitchen (down to the studs and floor joists!) I remember her balancing across the joists with […]
Installing the tile back splash
I woke up today, ready to get to work on the tile. I had the tile saw (borrowed from a friend), the tile, the supplies and my dad lined up to help. The morning was cold, but sunny. So, I started to get everything set up and it started to sleet. Okay. No biggie. We […]