DIY
The Tool Gift Guide for Homeowners & Renters
This post is sponsored by Lowe's Home Improvement I've heard that when you're gift-giving, you should prioritize "something to wear, something to read, something they want, something they need..." I would like to add "something they'll USE" to this list. It's true that nearly all of our trusty tools could fall under something Chris and […]
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November 13, 2024
Toolbox
The One Thing We Added to Our Kitchen (And Told No One About—Until Now)
The product was gifted but all opinions are our own. About six months ago, we added a foot pedal to our kitchen sink. (GASP! I know!)) We kept it under wraps because we really wanted to test it out for a while to see if it was something we could recommend. It all started earlier […]
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November 11, 2024
Toolbox
A Review of All The Paint Sprayers We've Used
We've done a lot of painting over the past 12 years. A. Lot. And with every project we tried to find ways of making it as painless as possible, while making sure the finish was done right. This took us into the realm of paint sprayers, which is quite the rabbit hole to head down. […]
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August 17, 2020
Toolbox
The BIG Thing on my Christmas List this Year
This post is sponsored by eBay. There's one gift me and all of my girlfriends asked for for Christmas--A Dyson cordless vacuum. We've had a big upright ball Dyson for a couple years and then right before Thanksgiving, we brought it up to the cabin and forgot it--conveniently the same weekend we were having a […]
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December 13, 2018
DIY
Three Problem Areas in Our Home We Solved in An Afternoon
This post is sponsored by Legrand. There were three problem areas in our home that were a constant source of frustration for Chris and I. One of them, we've talked about extensively (the bunk bed lighting situation--we'll get there in a minute), but, I'm excited to say, we easily fixed all three of these problems in […]
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July 12, 2017
Toolbox
Our Pressure Washer is Our Best Friend + A Giveaway!!
This post and giveaway is sponsored by Briggs and Stratton. Pressure washing is, pretty much, our favorite summer hobby around here. In our most recent podcast, it was only a half-joke when we say we pressure wash every day. So we were very excited when Briggs + Stratton asked if they could send us one of their […]
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June 1, 2017
Design
The 3D Rendering Tool that Makes Decorating Your Home SO much Easier!
This post is sponsored by Modsy When we were putting together the nursery for the One Room Challenge, I was struggling in one big way. I'm the kind of person that doesn't want to buy a rug and chair and crib and dresser and decide on paint colors and lighting fixtures--basically, make all the decisions for a room […]
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May 24, 2017
Toolbox
Paint Pails, Playlists and Painting the Nursery
This year, we've partnered with HANDy Paint Products, our favorite painting tools that make the job so much easier, to tackle four paint projects in our home. Naturally, the first project on deck was painting the wainscoting we added to the nursery last week before the wallpaper had to go up. Since the main walls, above the […]
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April 17, 2017
DIY
How to Repair or Patch a Wall + Our Go-To Tools for the Job
Our stairwell has been through a lot over the years. From gallery walls and then no frames, to a new railing and the elimination of a DIY baby gate that was attached to the wall, the scars and gashes the drywall has seen in this corner of our house have been too many to count! […]
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March 20, 2017
Toolbox
A Simple, Little Gadget that Changed our Lives + A simplehuman giveaway!
This post is sponsored by simplehuman. Chris has always been hyper-aware of cross-contamination in the kitchen. He wears gloves when handling raw meat. We have a touch faucet so he can turn on the water--with his elbow!--and we now have a sensor soap dispenser from simplehuman. (We love it so much, at the end of […]
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December 6, 2016
Inspiration
How to Find Product Sources on Pinterest
I shared this cool trick I discovered on Pinterest on my Instagram story, but since those disappear after 24 hours, and have had a few questions about it, I decided to share it here, too. So many times, our favorite inspiring spaces on Pinterest, are full of droll-worthy products and pieces that really make the space and […]
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October 10, 2016
Toolbox
4 Reasons to Have a Garment Steamer In Your Tool Arsenal
We got a new toy, I mean tool--the CONAIR Turbo ExtremeSteam® Handheld Fabric Steamer--the most powerful handheld steamer on the market. Being someone that loathes ironing so much I only have a handful of shirts that need ironing ever, I knew it wouldn't get a ton of action in the laundry room. However, I'm still here to announce, […]
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August 16, 2016
DIY
Painting Our Shed + Our Favorite Paint Sprayer Giveaway
Last summer, we moved a rather large shed from our property to my parents' next door. You can see how that went down in this post. It was an exciting and absolutely nerve-wrecking couple hours with a huge crane and we were left with a pile of rocks. That is to say, things looked way […]
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August 9, 2016
DIY
Hand-Painting vs. Spraying Our Interior Doors
Last week, we took some time to tackle a project that has been a thorn in our side for a long time now. A couple years ago, we hand-painted all the upstairs doors a bright white and changed out the hardware. But by the time we were done, my hand was a claw and I […]
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July 18, 2016
Toolbox
What's Your Most Prized Possession? Plus, a GetSafe Review!
This post is sponsored by GetSafe. What would you save in a fire? For Chris, he always says our piano that was once his great grandmothers. And then we laugh a little because, if, heaven forbid, our house was actually on fire, the chances of us actually being able to hoist the piano up two flights of stairs are […]
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July 13, 2016
Toolbox
PSA - Tools on Sale (not sponsored)
Ok y'all, this is not a drill! Though, there are quite a few drills in this post, but crap, no, we don't have time for lame puns because this is limited time only kinda stuff! Remember my gift guide last week that looked like a freaking DeWalt sponsored post? I promise, all my heart, it […]
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December 10, 2015
DIY
How To Paint the Exterior of Your Home--Yourself!
Today, I have a long overdue update on the exterior of the Pugmire's home! Back in June, I shared that they had wrote an amazingly catchy song and entered their home in a contest to win an exterior makeover. My favorite line of the song is when they sang, "My favorite color isn't salmon, or […]
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November 18, 2015
Toolbox
Move! That! Shed!
This is the story of a shed--our 10x14 shed that sits on one side of our house--or used to until last week. And if you follow me on Instagram, you already knows how the story ends...kind of. Since our kitchen looks out on this side yard (and will even more once we add the other […]
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June 29, 2015
Toolbox
Our Go-To (Tried and True!) Paint Supplies
I have been meaning to put together this post for awhile, so when a reader on our last post reminded me how much I have been painting lately, I thought it's time. So, here it is! The great guide to everything you need to have a really great painting "party." How it works over here […]
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April 3, 2015
DIY
Our Might-As-Well-Be-New Doors
We don't want to start any huge projects before Christmas because we'll be hosting a bunch of gatherings in the next few weeks and the last thing we want is our guests to be walking into a construction zone. They half expect it from us, but we'll just say that's part of our present to […]
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December 3, 2014
