Is your linen closet 2 steps away from being declared a natural disaster? Summer is a great time to organize that space! Here are the answers to the top 5 questions and struggles with organizing linen closets. With summer’s arrival, we hope, just hope, there’s a little more time to play AND get a few […]
How to Build Custom Star Wars DIY Cornhole Boards
Celebrate your geeky side and bring Star Wars Land to your own backyard this summer by building your own custom Star Wars DIY cornhole boards featuring our favorite droids, BB-8 and R2-D2. We love outdoor summer activities and we LOVE Disney, so we are stoked to combine the two in today’s tutorial! In case you […]
Inspired Through Instagram: Darling Kids’ Bedrooms
Our most popular IG posts almost always involve bunk rooms! As fabulous as bunk rooms are, some people have commitment issues with the bunk-making part of that deal. We can’t blame them there! Kids Bedrooms (whether bunk rooms or not) are such a fun part of home design. We decided for this week’s Instagram wrap […]
Inspired Through Instagram: Sensational Shelving Ideas
Do you ever feel like there are spaces of your home that constantly need attention and organizing? Shelving is a great option to improving those unruly areas. Shelving doesn’t have to be bland or lacking in design features. Today, we wanted to share some fun and creative shelving options with you. Shelving: Where would we […]
How to Build Recessed Shelves Between Studs in a Wall
Today I am going to show you how to build recessed shelves between studs in a 2×4 wall. Cassity and I chose to install these recessed shelves in our guest bathroom. Our girls share the same bathroom that is our guest bathroom and we were tired of our girls messes on the vanity counter top […]
Adding Built-In Shelves for Bathroom In-Wall Storage
We’re ready for the next step of our bathroom built-in shelves: actually adding the shelves! Subscribe to our YouTube channel here and watch this in-wall storage project unfold from our plan for the in-wall shelves to cutting the drywall, framing the opening, and finishing the drywall to a smooth texture, plus installing a pocket door […]
Inspired Through Instagram: Dining Room Dreams
Most homes have a designated space for dining and it’s so fun to dream about the possibilities of creating a welcoming space for you and yours. Dining rooms can have many design elements. You may prefer modern or farmhouse or maybe some touches of color. We’ve tried to find a little something for everyone in […]
How to Smooth Drywall Texture for Bathroom Built-Ins
We are plugging right along on our bathroom built-in project — last week we showed you how we installed a pocket door (and why we chose a pocket door over a barn door) and this week, we’re to the next step: cutting the hole, adding framing, and patching drywall. As we adding framing and finished […]
Inspired Through Instagram: Beautiful Bathtubs
Although it’s March here, we are looking out at snow, and snow is cold. The cold makes us crave a hot, relaxing bath. Dreaming of beautiful tubs takes us on a search for bathtubs…(this is beginning to sound somewhat like one of those If You Give a Mouse a Cookie books). So, for this week’s post, […]
Electric Snow Shovel and Giveaway
Is winter over yet? We got snowed in, while we were out of town at the home show last weekend in a place where it usually doesn’t snow. I am so over it. I heard the groundhog didn’t see his shadow, so let’s hope that is good news. In the meantime we will just keep […]
DIY Custom Walk-in Closet Organizer for a Builder Basic Closet
We love projects that make spaces more functional and more organized, and what is better than a functional and organized closet? (The answer: Nothing. Nothing is better than a great closet system. Except maybe a great closet system that is also filled with chocolate.) Our guest today took her builder-grade basic walk-in closet and turned […]
Build a Flip-Over 2×4 Bar Stool Step Ladder AKA Hoosier Step Stool
We’ve been hard at working making our work area in the garage at our Birch House feel more like a workshop and less like a storage unit that also houses our tools — it’s slow going, but we’re making progress! Today’s video will show you how we built this simple but smart flip-over bar stool […]
DIY Hand-Stamped Herringbone Accent Wall
We loved the hand-stamped wallpaper styles that we’re seeing in magazines and home shows lately (and the two that our team did here and here) so we set out to make our own hand-stamped herringbone accent wall in our office space. We stamped this section of the wall in a couple of hours, with no […]
Easy $20 DIY Sliding Picture Ledge Shelves
When we showed you the our girls’ room closet transformation last week, you may have noticed the empty wall to the right of the closet doors… well, it’s empty no more! These sliding picture ledge shelves were a quick and easy build and they give that narrow section of wall both a purpose and some […]
How to Build a Square Two-Tiered Lazy Susan Tray
Beautiful tiered trays have been everywhere we look lately — from home shows to boutiques to our favorite home decor shops. So we decided to build one of our own, but with a twist… get it? We added a simple and affordable turntable mechanism to the bottom, giving this two-tiered square tray a bit of […]
