Two years ago, today, we moved into this house--our very first after looking at over 90 homes and putting an offer on two others. But when we walked into this one--our eyes were big. This was it. Our hands were eager with paintbrushes...and cleaning supplies. The first year, from 2011 to 2012, was a major […]
Almost two years ago, we took down one of our upper cabinets and put in a couple of shelves--which we love, love, love. In fact, so much so that last weekend we added another one. Of course, there were a few other reasons for the third shelf. First, soon (like, the counters are arriving Friday […]
Today is the monumental day when we call Greta's "big girl room" done-zo. We have been working on it since the end of November. And now, four months later, we are so happy our girl has a beautiful room that makes her (and us) happy. It's warm and playful and calm and fitting for Greta […]
First off, I am doing much better after Monday's incident. Thank you so much for your concern and comments. I was able to get up and walk around and even do some dishes yesterday. Strangely thrilling about the dishes. This week has been challenging for a number of reasons, but we do have a kitchen […]
In order to make our personal deadline for the kitchen of April 13th, we kicked it in high gear this weekend. Our countertops are ordered (we'll share those details soon) and we checked a few other projects off this weekend that we're anxious to share with you this week. When we updated our pantry door […]
Greta's closet is complete (!!) and we're stoked to share with you the outcome with lots and lots of pictures today. That's the same closet. That's the sa-ame closet! I'm going to say we helped it rise to its full potential. I'm also going to say that "before" photo is embarrassing. I am hanging my […]
The last time we visited Greta's closet, it was just after we painted it a bold pink--Benjamin Moore's Peony. While it certainly looked good, Greta's clothes have been hanging out in our closet and we were ready to get some function back in place. And this weekend, with an Easy Closets closet system we did. […]
Aaaaannddd we have hardware!! Can you believe it took us nearly two years to get to this point? I will tell you it took absolutely no seconds at all to get used to opening our cabinets and drawers with handles. The original plan was to get bin pulls for the drawers and knobs for the […]
In addition to painting our base cabinets this weekend, we also took 20 minutes to update the back of the peninsula. (Note: The new countertops will have a waterfall edge so that is why the side of the peninsula is not painted.) A couple people noticed that the peninsula didn't used to be planked like […]
It has been an insane few days over here in the kitchen, with some major progress made. This weekend, our kitchen got a dose of navy blue: Behr's Midnight Dream to be exact. I picked up 40ish different navy swatches from a variety of brands (I try not to be a brand snob when it […]
When Katie and Sherry announced their Pinterest Challenge for this season, I knew it was time to tackle a project I pinned awhile ago and was anxious to do in our kitchen--we even included it in the mood board for our current kitchen reno here. Originally inspired by Sarah's pantry door over at Thrifty Decor […]
Remember this mess that was Greta's closet? Of course that was taken before the paint job (nice color choice, guys!): Although tearing everything out and painting it really helped the aesthetic, the whole point of this closet revamp was to make it more functional. Well, it took us a few weeks to get it figured […]
We made it. It's happening. The kitchen renovation has officially kicked off and we're starting with sharing our newest appliance (and the last one on our shopping list)--the range hood. You see, when we did our cosmetic kitchen revamp to tide us over until we could get started on this real one, we painted our […]
Last week, I busted the single shelf and clothing bar out of Greta's closet to prep for paint and her closet makeover. The shelf and bar came out pretty quickly, but I was reminded of how bad the walls were in the rest of her room when we moved in. Answer: ba-ad. In addition to […]
That tragic story from two days ago, goes something like this: On Greta's last day of two-dom, we ran to the Benjamin Moore store in the morning (this was after she covered my entire lamp with my lotion from Hawaii) to pick up a quart of "Peony" and supplies to paint her closet. When we […]
The age old question. Am I right? Or am I right, or am I right? Right? Right? Right? This week I did some experimenting with four different gold spray paint brands I had in my possession--so we could educate ourselves and answer this thing once and for all. Obviously there are more than four different brands […]
A few weeks ago, when we hung a few sets of Ikea curtains in Greta's room, I knew we'd be revisiting them in an effort to make them more special/quirky/fun. I casually looked for pom-pom trim (because, really it is the most fun trim there is) to add to the edges for a couple weeks […]
Remember when we were renovating the studio and you readers picked everything from the curtains to the paint colors!? That was such a cool experience and experiment on our end. A little nerve-wrecking (cue nervous laughter), but mostly a lot of fun. And really, you did an amazing job! When we talked about our plans […]
The grasscloth is up. Hallefreakinlujah. You could say we were very naive going into the process. We figured it would take us about an hour and that would be that. Ha! We averaged about an hour per panel! Granted, this was our first time ever dealing with wallpaper--so there was a major learning curve--but we […]
Last Saturday was going to be the big day of wallpapering in Greta's room. Really, the most anticipated day for all of us--you included, right? ;) I tracked the grasscloth like a hawk and watched it make its way from Illinois to us in Utah. It was going to arrive on Friday--prime for its Saturday […]
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