Union Jack Ottoman
As I shared in my other posts about my Houston trip, I met some amazing people. One of those people was Jennifer Williams of Metamorphose Studios. I was getting ready for the Milk Paint demo and Jennifer comes out of the back room, smiling. “I have a present for you.” I was slightly distracted and didn’t […]
the surprise, the bones & the plan
I got home from my trip to Houston on Sunday afternoon. My husband met me at the door and leaned in to tell me that my boys were hiding in our room and wanted me to come find them. That’s a pretty normal thing in our house. I walked through the house, back to our […]
Houston Trip | Part Two
I took some time today to recover a bit from my trip to Houston this weekend. I got a lot of things done around the house, too, and I’ll post about that later. Tonight I’ll share a bit more about the trip and the workshop. I must start with saying Mandie and her husband were […]
Houston Trip | Part One
I just got back today from my weekend trip to Houston, Texas with my mom. Whew, these trips are so fun, but so tiring. I’ll give a full account later this week, but I wanted to share something tonight. First off, the hospitality was amazing… …the people were gracious and inspiring… …we had […]
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You can read part one of laying a floating floor HERE. It shows how we stripped the carpet and installed the underlayment. Today, I’m going to talk through how we installed the actual floor. As I said in part one, we’re not professionals at this, so this isn’t meant to be a comprehensive tutorial, but […]
Furniture Feature Friday – First of 2013
Welcome to the first official FFF of the new year! If you’re new(er) to my blog, you may wonder what this Furniture Feature Friday is all about. Well, a few years ago, I noticed some link parties around the blog world. Bloggers would allow other bloggers to link posts of projects or recipes or whatever […]
laying a floating floor
You can read part one of laying a floating floor HERE. It shows how we stripped the carpet and installed the underlayment. Today, I’m going to talk through how we installed the actual floor. As I said in part one, we’re not professionals at this, so this isn’t meant to be a comprehensive tutorial, but […]
family room reveal
I was going to show how we installed the engineered floating hardwood floors today, but I did a little photo shoot with my family room and I decided I would share the pictures and some of my reasons for picking this floor. This is how the room looked when we first moved in… We […]