Before I introduce you to our newest furever family member, I took a walk down memory lane yesterday and found an interview I did with Madison Magazine back in 2013. In it, I made a statement that I still believe: The picture here, and in the article, is of our first retail space we opened in June 2013 in Wisconsin. Some of you may not remember what it looked like BEFORE we got our ... Read More »
Boy Room Nightstand
As you've gathered by now, our mission is to keep as many reusable items from going to the trash as possible. We try to find a way to use any and everything because we believe where there is a will, there is a way. Our favorite thing to save, as you know, is unwanted furniture. We generally go for the "worst case scenario" pieces of furniture. We go for the severely abused or neglected ... Read More »
Ideas for a Boys Room
We've spent so much time concentrating on our store, that our house has suffered from serious neglect over the past year. It's time to start to turning our attention to a few rooms in the house: our living room, one of our bathrooms and our little guy's room. The little guy's room is going to come first. Some of you that have been following along from the beginning may remember how the ... Read More »
One Year
We are finding it hard to believe that we're coming up on the 1 year anniversary of our store opening (May 29th). It's been a very fast and a very slow year all at the same time. In fact, we still can't believe that we have a store front. Neither of us would have believed you if you would have told us 2 years ago that we'd have a store! It was never a dream of ours to open a store, but here we ... Read More »
Pick a Picture
You may have seen them before if you follow anyone on Facebook that does anything remotely related to interiors: Pick a Picture! The person will post a photo with 1 - 4 photo choices and they ask you to pick either (a) your favorite photograph from the ones provided, or (b) what in the photo you may like or dislike. I have been been rethinking our bathroom and was looking at various ... Read More »
Final Wrap Up of 2014
As promised, here are a few "during" and "after" photos of our new physical retail location: Unfortunately, I don't have as many photographs of "after" as I thought I had. I guess I've spent too much time working in the space, rather than taking photos of it. I know some of you have taken photos when you've visited, so if you ... Read More »
Turning the Page and Announcement
As 2014 comes to a close, I think it's important to look back at how it began. (**Announcement is at the end of this post**) My "Word of the Year for 2014" was Create. I wrote that blog post on January 20th, before I ever even knew how that month, let alone the year, would end. Our lease in our first location was nearing the end and we weren't sure if we were staying or not. We ... Read More »
Entryway
I've been itching to redo our entryway for quite a while now. In fact, do some of you remember the rush seat bench I bought last year at the Holiday Market?I bought it with the intention of taking out the closet door, creating a little nook of some kind and setting the bench inside. Buuut . . . I've changed my mind. I am a woman, you know? I sold the bench yesterday on Craigslist. It's been ... Read More »
Evolution of our Kitchen & Transformation Tuesday Link Party
I wanted to share a little more with you about how we got from point A to point B in OUR KITCHEN and the resources that help us get there. I thought sharing it on Transformation Tuesday was appropriate since this was a major transformation.I hate to show you the before picture again, but here is where we started (cringe):The very first thing I did to change the look of this space was paint it. ... Read More »
Kitchen Reveal
Where on earth did July go? Can anyone tell me? I'm sure it's because of our newborn, sleep deprivation and overall chaos over here, but it went by way too fast. Anyone else with me on that? Before you know it, Christmas will be here. Oh I had to go there, didn't I?Well, geez, I'm certainly not here to talk about Christmas today. Not yet anyways. I'm here to share our Kitchen with you. In ... Read More »
A Few Living Room Updates
Oh geez, remember those angel wings I purchased for the living room and later regretted?Well, I returned them. I had to. A lot of you had some great suggestions of other places I could have used them, like the nursery, but I honestly just couldn't do it. No matter what I did with them, I didn't like them. It was worth returning them and getting the money back, then to keep them and wait for ... Read More »
From Drab to Fab – A Guest Post
We have another fantastic guest post for you today, folks! When I put out the S.O.S. call for guest bloggers, Vicky from Decor & Harmony was also kind enough to jump at the opportunity and help out. Vicky put together a lovely project for you! Thank you for helping out, Vicky, while we're on a little hiatus with a little wee one. It's a pleasure to have you here!Please be sure to stop by ... Read More »
Dining Room Reveal
The dining room is finished. Done. Finalized. Complete. I finally finished the cafe curtains for the window wall last weekend (in the nick of time) so I thought I'd share a few photos with you of the finished room. (And please check out the other half of this room: OUR KITCHEN!)But first . . .Let's take a peek at how the dining room used to look, shall we? We must not forget just how far ... Read More »
Nursery Updates with Sources & a Ballard Designs Knockoff
When I initially decorated the nursery we didn't know what we were having so I went neutral, but playful, with a red and yellow nursery.Here is the room today:Yes, the dark wood crib is missing so it really looks bare, but it's currently being used by our youngest in another room. It'll make its way back in here soon enough.I painted the table midnight blue and I even re-dyed the chair slipcover ... Read More »
DIY Nursery Sign
Once in a while I like to write a post that points out just how fabulous and inspirational you bloggers out there can be by posting a few projects that "wow" me. I haven't done it in quite some time, but I'm going to get back to those posts. Pinky swear. There's just too much inspiration out there not to point it out.In one of those very posts, I showed you how much I loved this project from ... Read More »
Gallery Wall – Home Goal of 2012 Completed
Woo hoo! Another Home Goal for 2012 is complete! Actually when I went back and read that post, we actually have most of the things on that list completed: the area on our stairway has been painted and the bannister has been capped (post with pics coming soon); the open shelves in our kitchen are complete; Operation Infinite Giggles is as good as done, except for the window treatments; and then ... Read More »
From Dark to Light
Another project that's been on my "to do" list for over a year: paint entertainment center. The time had come to cross it off the list, wouldn't you agree? There's nothing like the pending arrival of a baby to light a little fire under your you-know-what to get it done. And so I did.It was built by my aunt's father back in the early 1990s and I'd always admired it in their home. My favorite ... Read More »
What I Did for Mother’s Day
I hope all of you mothers out there had a fantastic day yesterday. I hope you put your feet up and allowed your family to pamper you. You certainly deserve it!When the hubby asked what I wanted, I asked for time to finish a project. Oh yeah, I wanted to spend the entire day painting. Painting what? Painting our pantry wall in the kitchen. FINALLY!I revealed the wall back in December when I ... Read More »
I Did It – Numbered Stairs
Have you seen them?Small StudioEllaBoo & Co.Dixie DelightsHolly Mathis InteriorsI wasn't sure at first if I loved the look of numbered stairs, or if I hated them. After a while I decided I liked them, so I decided it was time to give our stairs a little facelift.I began by cleaning the stairs thoroughly and then gave the risers a fresh coat of paint. Using pretty numbers from Jones Design ... Read More »
Our Recycled Farm Table
Slowly but surely, we're changing things in our home one-by-one to reflect our new style. One of the items that's been on the top of the list for quite awhile is our kitchen table.I mean, it was fine. It served its purpose. But it certainly does not tie in at all to the style we're going for in our kitchen (modern farmhouse) so it was time for a facelift.See all of those lines on top of the ... Read More »
