How to pick out tile (in the laundry room!)

Hello all! I’m making little bits of progress on a bunch of rooms right now – it’s decorating ADD at it’s finest. But at least there’s (some) progress, right? I’m SO happy with how our basement laundry room is turning out! It so fun to have a new space to work with, I’m in heaven. And dare I say it – it’s not so bad when I have ROOM to do laundry. Yep, I said it. Anyhoo, I actually picked

Laundry room to mud room (Oh yeah)

Hello there! Hope you had a wonderful weekend! We had a great one – I got some DIY time in, some quality kiddo time and even a date with the hubs! And it wasn’t 101 degrees – bonus! :) I’m sharing a before and after today that’s been a loooong time coming. I’m giddy about it. Grinning like mad. Elaine Benes dance happy. It’s not anything Pinterest worthy, but let me tell you…it’s BIG. (To me.)

The new laundry chute!

Hey hey! How are YOU? And you? :) I’m back with a project I’m SO SO SO excited about!! You may remember that as a part of our basement finishing process, we decided to move the washer and dryer to the basement. I know, some people think I’m a little cray cray for doing it. I get it. I talked about our reasoning here. And let me tell you, I am counting down the DAYS till it gets moved down

Stick a fork in it (The basement is done!)

Well, almost. :) Done enough I tell you! Today was the day – the carpet was installed in the basement and we have been so excited about it! I know I’ve said it about every big part of the basement reno, but the carpet made such a HUGE difference. I talked about our plan for the basement flooring back here when we had a different carpet picked out. Since then a new one came available that was SO

DIY art (reusing an old canvas)

Hello there! Happy start to another week! Can you believe it’s almost the end of July already?? Unreal. Today I’m sharing another project that I’m TOTALLY in love with. I’m totally in love with the price too – FREE. Awww. yeah. When we had some of the downstairs walls repainted last month, I had to figure out what I was going to do with the large rectangles I had created with molding above the

Chip It! (And the powder room plan)

Soooo…remember that loooong list I made weeks and weeks and WEEKS ago? Well, it’s still not done. Mostly done, kinda. But not done. I did get some big things off the list, and one of them was the powder room that’s been in shambles for well over a year now. Shambles my peeps. A YEAR. Year and a half now? I thought it was less, but no. A good 18 months. It started out like this: It was fine

Knockoff sunburst mirror

Well hello! I’m so excited to share this little DIY project with you all (y’all? Can I be southern for a moment?) because it turned out JUST how I envisioned. I told you back in this post how I tend to buck trends (decor and otherwise) – either I just don’t add them to our home or I do it reeeeeally late, well after they are cool. That is just how. I. roll. Same goes for this project. I

Show Us Your Bathrooms!

Hello there! How was your weekend? Ours was HOT. We did get about five minutes of pouring rain, thank goodness. It wasn’t enough to help much (we are experiencing a severe drought here in Indy) but it was something! It’s time to kick off the week with another Show Us Your House party!: This month it’s bathrooms! I realized while preparing for this post that I haven’t shared much of our

Summer in the house

Happy Friday the 13th! Hope it was a good one for you and the bad luck stayed away! :) Today I’m sharing a few of the summery touches I’ve added around the house over the past few weeks. Most everything I’ve had for a while – there’s only one recent purchase that I couldn’t pass up! Not many words needed, so enjoy the pics:   I get asked about this wooden trough under our TV a bunch –

Coral summer tablescape

**This giveaway and comments are now closed! Winners have been contacted via email. Hello there! How are ya? Well, it’s July, and I gotta be honest, usually July means I start thinking of the f.a.l.l. word. But the older I get, the more I try to embrace summer. I’m starting to dig it. When it’s not 105 degrees. ;) We do have at least a few more weeks of summer, and I’m determined to bear

Pink walls, begone!

Heyyyyyya! I’m back to show you a HUGE change we made to the house a few weeks ago, and it was a very long time coming. When we built more than eight years ago, we found out during the process that the builder would paint the interior walls for us if we wanted. Since our dining room, living room, loft and staircase are all connected, and all but the dining room have soaring ceilings (about 25

July Before and After Party!

Hey there! Welcome to another week! I’m looking forward to temps in the 80’s around here this week – compared to “feels like” 110, it’s going to be positively fallish! Since I was on a little vaca last week, we’re moving the July Before and After Party to today -- hopefully it works out well for all of you. Like always, I want to highlight a few of the awesome projects linked up last month

Back from a break!

Well hello strangers!! How the heck are ya? I’m back from a lovely blogging break. :) It was just what I needed! What I didn’t mention earlier this week is that we were off on a little trip during my time away from the blog – and most people probably would have been really stoked for this type of trip, but it had me a little, ahhhh…fidgety. I’ve had a bit of a fear of cruises for years now:

Silence is golden

Hello there! I hope you had a positively lovely weekend! I’m doing a little something different this week – taking some time off to hang with my family for the Fourth of July holiday. I’ve only taken a few weeks “off” from blogging in four years – and I don’t mind that it’s been so little because blogging doesn’t feel like work to me. (Best. job. ever.) But this week I know you’ll probably be