Making the most of a small entry

images (left to right): 1 / 2 / 3 My mom teased me the other day that I'm always changing things, and I guess she's right. I pinne...

Conquering my fear of the mitre saw (holy baseboards!)

Notice anything different? We finally installed baseboards on our main floor! Actually, I installed baseboards and I did it All By Myself ...

Painting a white door white

Lately, it feels like I can't check an item off my 'to do' list without adding two more. Know what I mean? I finally installed n...

New flooring in the entry!

The entryway flooring is down and I installed it completely, 100% by myself. Adam did hold the planks for a few jigsaw cuts, but that was it...

New art in the entry

It's kind of funny that I'm adding art before major elements like, say, flooring, but that's how it goes sometimes. When we adde...

Spray-painting a light fixture (without taking it down)

It was a beautiful day here yesterday, so I took advantage of the opportunity to leave the front door open and gave our entryway light a lit...

Weekend tweaking

I hope you had a lovely weekend. I started running again, after more than a year-long break. It went pretty well and I'm determined to k...

Updating boring slab doors with paint

I don't know what's harder to believe: that I'm sharing these embarrassing pictures of our entryway on the internet, or that I...

Weekend projects

We started sleep training and Adam got hit with a flu-like cold this weekend, so we're all a little worse for wear today. The good news ...

Entryway Inspiration

I've been dragging my feet getting started on our entryway makeover, so I thought I'd put together a mood board for the space. Seein...

DIY painted wall hooks

One of the items on my 30 Before Thirty list is tiling the entry-way floor. I included it partly because I've never tiled anything befo...

Choosing floor tile

We don't have time for much beyond eating, sleeping and changing diapers these days, but that hasn't stopped me from daydreaming abo...