Home Projects

After nearly a decade with the same kitchen appliances, the shine wears off. I’m on the hunt for a new dishwasher and I have my eye on the LG Black Matte QuadWash.

When was the last time you had a fire drill at home with your kids? I’ll be honest, we haven’t done it yet! It’s only been in the past year that we started making campfires and teaching the boys about fire safety in general, but there is no better time to get an emergency plan in place. …

For the past week, my husband has been on what we call “the dude trip” where he flies across the country to Washington state for some epic hiking and camping with old friends. It’s something he looks forward to and actually, something I look forward to because he gets so much out of it. I …

I have been wanting to post photos of Calvin’s nursery for ohh I don’t know a YEAR now? However, despite numerous attempts at taking pictures, I have never been pleased with how they turned out. His room only has one window and the lighting in there is never good for photos. I just decided to …

Without a lot of money to update our kitchen, we knew we could make a big difference with some paint. Our budget kitchen makeover is a huge improvement!

We’ve been in our house for over a year now. In some ways I still feel like we just moved in. But in others, I feel like we’ve been here forever! A lot has happened in the past 14 months. In fact, so much has happened that I totally neglected our project updates! But not to …

My front door using the Reindeer Wreath Tutorial from Good Housekeeping!

We are more or less done with what we planned to do to our guest bathroom so I thought it was high time for some bathroom pictures! Ultimately, we would love to do a complete overhaul but it was definitely not in the budget for phase 1 of house updates. Since most of the tile …

I’m gonna level with you about something; I am not a great housekeeper. I try to keep clutter to a minimum and “straighten as I go” but the actual CLEANING thing? I don’t know but I think it must have skipped a generation. I remember watching my mom vacuum the floors and wash the dishes …

Hey remember that renovation project we started oh, 3 months ago? Well guess what? We aren’t done yet! I’ve been sitting on my hands waiting to share pictures of the progress because it isn’t finished, but the truth is, it might be a while. Granted the hired help is gone so we have come a …