Master Bedroom Makeover – The Plan One Room Challenge – Week 1 Last fall 2015, I was roaming around blog land and stumbled across Linda from Calling It Home who hosts bi-annually and amazing 6-week One Room Challenge where 20 Talented Designers who post their weekly progress on Wednesdays, and 150+ Designer/Bloggers (that’s me!) also…
Living In a House While Its Under Renovations? Living in a renovation is MESSY. You will have drywall waiting to be installed. Dirt and dust that needs to be swept up DAILY. Not to mention rooms out of commission for days or weeks on end. SHOULD YOU LIVE IN OR MOVE OUT? It will…
Making a Beautiful Entryway – In Progress!! ORC – Week 5 A few weeks ago I discovered Linda from Calling It Home who runs this now very famous One Room Challenge bi-annually for designers/bloggers to design one room in their home in 6 weeks. Even though I discovered the challenge already in progress,week 3, I…
One Room Challenge – Week 4 – Master Bedroom & The NASTY Popcorn Ceiling OR I SHOULD CALL THIS: One Room Challenge – Week 4 – Starting Over (UGH!!!!!) I came across the One Room Challenge last week from Linda @ Calling it Home and thought, no problem. I’m in even if I have only 3…
One Room Challenge – Week 3 – Master Bedroom Makeover I stumbled across the most amazing blog yesterday while searching through blogland. Linda from Calling it Home has this amazing challenge that she puts out bi-annualy to 20 Designers and designer/bloggers (that’s me!) to makeover ONE room in your house in just a mere 6 weeks….
Table Makeover: From rags to riches I was driving along the street to pick up son #1 (the oldest) when I came across this AMAZING street find. This beautiful WOOD not laminate, but WOOD coffee table was on its side just begging for me to pick it up. Of course I obliged rolling it (can…
A bookshelf makeover for kids – for your car enthusiast A few months ago I redecorated my youngest son’s bedroom. The bedroom was too young for him so I (we/including my in-laws) painted his bedroom and transformed it from a babyish room into a boy’s room. I had almost finished it but still had to…
The Cat’s Meow – Making an old table meowlichious In my family there is a standing joke where my brother (NOT a cat lover) pulled a not-so-funny-to-me prank. In my singles days, a girlfriend and I were driving back from summer holidays from Martha’s Vineyard. I made a phone call to make parents to see…
How to make a Dump Truck Light for under $10.00 For one of my design classes, our assignment was to design a light for under $10. At first, I thought, how am I ever going to do this for under $10.00? So I put my creative thinking cap on, searched images on Google (this was before…
From Boring to a Beautiful Blue Buffet! Several years ago, I bought this dining room set because we had just moved into our second fixer upper and needed a “real” set. I raced over to the house where it was for sale. I kind of liked it, hoping it would grow on me, but I…