Our 1,800 sqf Cape Cod is a comfortable size for our family of 5, but the one thing it does lack in these child-rearing days is a designated play room. In a huge sense, I actually see this as a very good thing. Knowing my …
Oh man, guys, I’m such a proud momma! I got a Fiddle Leaf Fig on sale for a mere $8 from Home Depot several months ago (perhaps at that price because it wasn’t doing so hot?). After losing all but FOUR leaves and remaining seemingly …
Oh man. I’m so excited to write this post. It’s been such a LONG time coming. We finally have a complete, functional, decorated dining room! It’s been such a satisfying big ticket item to complete in our 1960s fixer upper, and it’s clearly a game …
Working on this hearth has happened in very drawn-out stages. When we first bought the house, this little corner was in its original red brick color with brown and white shag carpet crawling up the base. I knew I wanted to whitewash it at some …
The dining room has been a never-ending work in progress. We’ve tried to do SO much in this room at once that we haven’t been able to get it functional, even over the course of a few years. I think we’re finally getting sick of eating on …
I just love a cottage. If could live in a cozy, old cottage nestled in the English countryside (with a Starbucks and Target still within driving distance), I would do so in a heartbeat. Since that’s not likely to happen in this lifetime, I try …
I don’t usually make New Years Resolutions. Perhaps I’m just jaded at the ripe old age of 31, but I think I know by now that I don’t change my habits or tendencies easily (if at all). Whenever I think about training myself to develop …
One thing I’ve been so eager to do since getting married, and then getting a house, is to begin hosting dinners on a regular basis. Until buying our fixer upper in 2015, we’ve only had small-square-footage apartments and one round 4-seater dinner table. Now that …
My favorite price for anything is: FREE! I follow several yard sale pages on Facebook, which are great (and more visually-friendly) places to hunt down local second-hand items. I highly suggest joining some if you like finding things used! This find was almost providential. My …
As we slowly, and I mean slowly, renovate our half-demolished 1960s house, the dining room has been a particularly hard space to wait for. It’s so functionally important, and one of the quirks of our house when we first moved in was that it didn’t have …