Week One: Design Styles

Happy Halloween! Halloween kind of snuck up on me this year - Adam and I never even got around to carving our pumpkins! I'm not a huge H...

Mood Board: Blue and yellow living room

Earlier this week, a friend asked me for my thoughts on her living room. She had it all planned out in her head, but her husband literally c...

DIY twine vase

Last night I started out with plans to quickly switch out the dried hydrangeas on our mantle for something more fall-like and somehow ended ...

It's here!

That's right, the oh-so-lovely vintage tin I won in Shannon from 8foot6 's giveaway arrived yesterday! It's currently hanging ou...

Fall leaves and a new garden

This picture (of bagged leaves) pretty much sums up my weekend. The good news is that in addition to raking, I also managed to see Adam'...

Bedroom mood board (take 2)

On Wednesday, Adam and I moved out of the guestroom and back into our bedroom. We've got a pretty crazy set-up going on right now (pictu...

Buh-bye textured walls

Remember how two of the walls in our master bedroom used to look like this? After a whole lot of sanding (I used my trusty Black & Decke...

Black and white lamp DIY

I finished sanding the walls in our bedroom on Saturday (!!!) and on Sunday I applied the skim coat. I'll do a before and after post onc...

Living room inspiration

Even though I'm in the middle of making over our master bedroom (and if I'm being honest with myself, I'm still at the beginning...

Keeping it in perspective

I'm spending every free moment de-texturizing the walls in our master bedroom (which hopefully means I'll have some progress shots s...

Honeymoon on Ice: Shopping Round-up

I hope eveyone had a great weekend, whether it was a long one or not. Adam and I got back from our mini-honeymoon in Iceland last night, and...

Plans for the master bedroom and a mini-honeymoon

Welcome to new visitors and a big thanks to everyone who's left a comment recently - they are so appreciated and please keep them coming...

Guest posting at First Time Fancy

Today you can find me over at Kerry's blog, First Time Fancy . I'm giving a mini house tour and sharing my latest home improvement p...