As we’ve mentioned before, the only way to get a break and survive as a Remodelaholic (especially when you’re currently working on 2 houses!) is to actually leave the house and go somewhere else. It’s hard to feel relaxed on a staycation when your home base is missing flooring or walls or baseboards and all […]
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 […]
10 Minute Update! Leviton USB Charging Outlet/Tamper Resistant Outlet
It’s a modern problem… not enough outlets to charge everyone’s devices conveniently. Do you need more fast USB chargers throughout your home like we do? We have added USB charging outlets in a few places in our home, but we’ve found that as we sit in the living room at the end of the day […]
Skin So Soft! A Water Softener Update
*Today’s post is partnership with Morton Salt. Thank you Morton, for helping us take care of our extremely hard water! A few months back, we shared about our new water softener, so today we’re partnering with Morton again to give an update about our first few months. Read the first installment of the water softener […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Quickest and Easiest Way to Hang Shelves and Hooks for a Family Organization Center
Do you ever consider hanging stuff on your walls only to chicken out because of all the tools and things you have to collect just to hang anything? I am a chronic non-wall decorator for this very reason. I just can’t stand the thought of having to go through all the hassle of finding anchors, […]
26 Tips for Painting Interior Doors
Happy Saturday everyone! Recently we shared how we added some color to our neutral open floor plan in our Jordan House, including painting our interior doors. (We also updated a basic flat door to a wood barn door, squee!) Painting your doors is a high impact change that gives you a great bang for your […]
Simple Countertop Towel Ladder and Utensil Organizer
In every kitchen the countertop space is valuable real estate! Recently friend of mine suggested a play on the well known quilt ladder, but for hand towels. This idea solved a problem for me. We used to have a dish washer with a front handle, and that is where we kept our towels to dry […]
Painting My Interior Doors – Color Binge Beauty!
We have another update from our newest Jordan House to share with you and it’s a-door-able… We’ll show you how we painted our doors (and a few other home accents) and share our tips for painting doors with a beautiful finish. We’ve been painting up a storm in partnership with Behr for this post: they have […]
Water Softener Heaven!
*Today’s post is partnership with Morton Salt. Thank you Morton, for helping us take care of our extremely hard water! When it comes to remodeling projects, it’s always really enticing to work toward a pretty after picture, especially if there’s a cringe-y before to compare to. The inspiration of a beautiful new kitchen or a […]
Easy Dollar Store Halloween Hacks and Mantel Decor
As I mentioned in our Halloween decor roundup post this morning — we LOVE Halloween! But as any long-time readers will also know, I am not a big-time decorator, so when I decide to decorate, I like it to be fast, easy, and inexpensive (kind of like our dollar store gold skeletons from last year). […]
Easy DIY Fresh Boxwood Wreath with Gold Accents — FREE Fall Decor!
It’s finally feeling like fall around here, and we’re getting in the fall spirit by decorating… for FREE! I used clippings from my yard and leftover craft supplies to make this DIY gold boxwood wreath — and doesn’t it looks fabulous on our newly redone farmhouse door! It’s not quite as fast as the one-hour […]
Yard Clean Up Safety: Chainsaw Safety Rules
It’s that time… kids are back in school, the air is cooling down a bit, the mountains around us are just starting to get a touch of orange. It is not technically but almost fall. Basically you’ve already missed Christmas. (I’m kidding…) But really, now that it is cooling down slightly and trees will start […]
$25 Barn Door Upgrade from an Existing Door
Today’s post is brought to you by Gorilla Glue. Opinions and DIY plans, as always, are our own. You guys will not believe what we did with our 40 year old door to our garage. I am telling you the transformation is stunning! We took a plain old door and gave it a new barn […]
