The kitchen in our last house was a room that took some time (and happy accidents!) to come together, but by the time we moved, it looked GREAT! I was so sad to leave it behind. Since we were renting the house, we were advised not to paint the oak kitchen cabinets, but we managed […]
Dining Room Review and Reveal
Well after installing the bamboo shades, there were just a few loose ends to wrap up! I want to show you a quick review of our dining room updates we’ve done so far. Before (from the walk through while buying the house) New Lighting and Hanging Drapes: Installing columns in the living room! That effects […]
A Blinding Difference!
Yesterday you saw the humble beginning of our recent house’s dining room. We really didn’t make any major changes in this space, but it is amazing how the little touch ups made such a huge difference. We left off with the space looking like this: Okay, well, the space is fine, but I feel like […]
Simple Dining Room Updates
Wow! I finally showed you a completely finished space in my last house, the kitchen. (I guess I showed you the powder room too) But this next little update (also from Texas) should come a lot faster, since it wasn’t as big. The dining room updates, (technically it was more of a breakfast nook or […]
Kitchen Review and Reveal
Well it is finally time for the kitchen reveal. I told you all about my sad no painting allowed story on Wednesday. How the Realtor said we couldn’t paint our cabinets because we had chosen to rent the house and the painting them would not be the best choice. And the cabinets are only 10 […]
Update Builder Grade Cabinets Without Painting
Okay I need to start this post with a very clear caveat: We cannot paint our cabinets, and we cannot stain our cabinets. Ahhh… that feels better to get that out in the open first thing. Okay, so the reason that is the first thing in bold red text, is because I know I am going to […]
White Subway Tile Back Splash Tutorial
Okay now for the fun part, I’ve told you about the grimmy part and the LONG race to, well, nothing part, well I guess that long race ends right here, when we decided to make some last minute changes before the move! I told you that we couldn’t paint our cabinets under strict instructions from our Realtor (yes, […]
Small Kitchen Cha-Cha-Changes!
I am here to try and help undo the damage I might have done to your psyche yesterday by showing you what our kitchen looked like when we moved into our house. I want to show you how our kitchen slowly, and I am talking tortoise here, moved along. Over the first few years, we didn’t make any significant […]
The bad and the worst!
Okay brace yourself for a slap in the face… well, really it is not that bad, until you start looking up close, and yes we are going to be looking up close (be sure to bring a face mask and hand sanitizer!) I want to step back in time to show you the progression of our recent kitchen […]
Off with their heads….I mean doors? PR 7
Quick Clean; PR 3
Well I have been doing some little projects here and there and this is just a little something that has been needing to be done. It took about 5 minutes but was so worth it! At some point we plan on building a vertically organized cabinet over the fridge. For now I have I little organizer […]
Get back to work!
Did you ever hear that joke that goes something like this: What do you do if your dishwasher stops working? Kick her, and tell her to get back to work! ha. sooo funny. (said with a flat monotone voice…) But seriously, the dishwasher in this house has been driving me crazy since we got here. […]
$4.00 update
Well here is a random project. I could not stand the way my oven looked. It is black, white, black white- like it can’t make up it’s mind about what color to be. So I did what I could with some spray paint, and I like it much better, (I couldn’t do the top because […]
