Add a fun and relaxing above ground pool and hot tub to your backyard in just a few hours with our Intex review and tips for an easy inflatable hot tub and swimming pool setup. The backyard was a big selling point in our current homes (yes, both of them!) and we especially like to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Easy Way to Install a Pocket Door Frame in an Existing Wall
We realized after we showed you our built-in bathroom storage plans that we had a few more things to finish up before we can really get going on our wall cubbies. Namely, the pocket door that we raved about in last week’s vlog! We chose to save space by installing a pocket door frame in the […]
Planning Built-In Bathroom Storage for a Small Bathroom
We are continuing on our home organizing quest — next up on our list is our shared family bathroom. While we do have an ensuite bathroom for our master bedroom, this bathroom is the workhorse of our house, functioning as both our general family bathroom for our two grade-school girls and as the guest bathroom […]
Organizing Baking Supplies in a Drawer – Pantry Alternative for a Small Kitchen
In our quest for the organized life, we’ve organized our entryway and our closet drawers and our coat closet and our pantry (and a spice rack or two) — so next up is our baking drawer, where we keep our pantry staple dry goods as a pantry alternative in our small kitchen. All of these […]
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 […]
IKEA PAX: Built-In Wardrobe Closet in a Shared Girls’ Room
This post is Sponsored by IKEA. Thank you IKEA!! We love working with you and all your fabulous products! When we first moved into this new project house, one of the first things I wanted was an great clothing storage solution for my two girls. They were sharing a small bedroom, which had room for their […]
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 […]
Closet Transformation
A couple weeks ago we walked you through a tour of our new (to us) home… Well, while we have been here for over a year, but we’ve been so busy with major remodeling that actually writing a blog post about it has been hard- and so many projects, have been done half way just […]
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 […]
