Happy Earth Day! Thank you to GreenWorks for partnering with us on today’s post! What’s that, you didn’t know it was a holiday? Well, it is, even if you haven’t remembered to celebrate it since grade school recycled art projects. (For this upcycling Remodelaholic, those recycled milk carton projects have just grown up into using […]
Colorful Printables for Spring and Year-Round Decorating
While we are fans of neutral spaces and neutral home finishes (like our white full-height board and batten walls, oak floors, and gray kitchen cabinets) we are also big fans of COLOR! (like our yellow Swedish Mora clock and green patio chairs and matching wall) Especially when spring finally comes to our area here in […]
Adding Curb Appeal: Colorful Spring Porch Update
If all the new printables and growing news weren’t a tip-off — we are READY for spring and excited for the upcoming warm weather! While we’re still working on our bathroom storage built-ins (and a few other projects, like always #remodelaholic), this week we took a couple of hours to add some curb appeal to […]
Personalized Easter Bunny Printable Set for Easy Spring Decorating
Spring finally feels like it has arrived, and the calendar agrees — happy first day of spring! After a long winter, I always love the warmth and new growth that comes with the beginning of spring –although, to be honest, I’m not feeling in top shape thanks to the latest personal development we shared here… […]
Customizable Shamrock Printable Set for a Simple St. Patrick’s Day Mantel
St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner (and with it, I hope, spring!). This customizable shamrock printable set is the perfect way to decorate a mantel with just the right amount of festive Irish green — and the right amount of custom art on a much smaller budget! We’ve long been fans of easy […]
Printable Birch Tree Art Prints with Custom Carved Initials
After the Christmas decor comes down (the day after Christmas at my house!) it can be tricky to find the right seasonal decor — what kind of winter decor is right for your style? and when can you add Valentine’s decor into the mix? Well, we have the perfect solution: this printable set is both beautiful and […]
2019 Watercolor Handlettered Printable Calendar + Perpetual Calendar for Birthdays
It’s that time of year again… time to turn the calendar page to a whole new year! Or rather, get a whole new calendar for a brand new year! (and scribble out last year’s date on every check I write… which thankfully isn’t many anymore!) We’ve updated our watercolor handlettered calendar for 2019, plus added […]
Printable Seasonal Watercolor Art Set for Easy Holiday Decorating
Christmas is just days away, and as much fun as we’ve had decorating for Christmas, I’m always just a *little* bit relieved to take it all down and get my house back to its normal level of decorating. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a big-time decorator, but I do like having a few little […]
Easy DIY Chalkboard Signs for Christmas
Are you feeling the holiday spirit yet? We are! In case you’ve missed it, we’ve decorated a Nutcracker Christmas tree, decorated another tree with dollar store ornaments, and built a set of triangle Christmas trees to display ornaments — and that’s on top of the 20 new Christmas tutorials from our blogging buddies we shared […]
DIY Giant Lighted Star for Outdoor Christmas Light Display
Looking for something different this year for your outdoor holiday light display? We’ve got something for you today… and it’s not a little something. We’re talking a BIG something: a giant lighted star. And when we say giant, we mean GIANT: 16 feet tall! We’ve done this for a couple years now and we love […]
DIY Ornament Display Tree Woodworking Plans
Learn how to build an ornament display tree to hold your favorite Christmas ornaments, following our simple woodworking plan. This easy triangle Christmas tree ornament holder looks great on a mantel or shelf. Whether you display sentimental ornaments, vintage ornaments, or just a few of your favorite ornaments, this DIY ornament display tree is a […]
Gold and Blue Dollar Store Christmas Tree Decorating + 3 Money-Saving Christmas Tree Hacks
How much do you spend on Christmas tree ornaments and decorating every year? We love coming up with new ways to decorate a Christmas tree on a budget and today’s dollar store Christmas tree marks our third year of decorating our large tree with *only* our Dollar Tree haul! Previously we’ve done a classic red […]
Blue, Pink and Gold Nutcracker Christmas Tree Decorating Tutorial
When it comes to Christmas tree decorating, how do you decide what goes on the tree? Do you follow a theme, use sentimental ornaments, set the kids loose with whatever they can find…? We’ve had so much fun in the past few years decorating the tree (see our red and gold dollar store tree, our […]
20+ New DIY Christmas Decor Tutorials
It’s only 45 days until Christmas, so clearly it’s time for our second annual Creative Christmas Challenge! We teamed up with more than twenty fellow bloggers to create new DIY Christmas decor tutorials. From our Nutcracker Christmas tree to DIY ornaments, wreaths, and decor, there’s a little bit of everything for your handmade Christmas celebration! […]
How to Hack a Bigger Dining Table for Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is coming up here in the US, and that means family and friends gathering together to feast! We are hosting this year and we need a bigger dining table to seat our guests — but our table doesn’t have a leaf we can add to extend the table length. So instead, we asked ourselves […]
