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DIY Pottery Barn Dollhouse Bookcase – Finishing

There were a lot of lessons from this series of projects for our daughters room. I had this wonderful thought about spraying with an airless sprayer — it was a spectacular failure. Such is life. At least you can sand your way out of those failures.. Involve the Kiddos One of the great things about this project series was our daughter’s design and finish input. We didn’t deliver on her request for a rainbow painted bookcase but we did keep...

How to Build a Dollhouse Bookcase

There are great plans online for dollhouse bookcases and we wanted to build one with slightly different features – roof slope and dimensions. The inspiration is a Pottery Barn Dollhouse Bookcase. However, we wanted to put a small twist on the design – a light take on a midcentury modern style roof and a dollhouse that was 36w x 42h x 12d. Here are some handy resources and considerations when modifying the design. How to Modify the Design and Build...

IKEA Kallax Bookcase Hack – How To Wrap Your Bookcase

For our children’s playroom, we were looking for a practical and stylish way of storing toys and devices. This simple DIY hack turns a simple white IKEA bookcase / shelf unit into a stylish piece of furniture. It elevated the design and style of a traditional bookcase while adding some warmth and character. We had two IKEA Kallax shelf units – smaller one at 30 3/8 x 30 3/8 and a larger unit at 30 3/8 x 57 7/8 –...

Modernize Your Built In Bookcase and Media Console

When we moved into our current house, one of our first projects was to update the oak built in bookshelf unit, which had a TV hole that would not fit our TV. The house was built by a local developer and is consistent with other houses in our neighborhood, but some of the rooms (including this one) seemed to be off-balance and asymmetrical to us. Here’s a before:   We precariously perched our TV on the edge of the bookcase and planned our attack. We...

IKEA Koppang Dresser Hack

I love a good IKEA hack. This super simple and inexpensive update made a big difference in this IKEA Koppang white dresser. IKEA dressers can be hard to find, and we lucked out by getting our hands on this one for delivery even though it was sold out everywhere in stores around us. There are other options that are very price friendly, including some on Wayfair, like this one. For E’s room makeover, we needed something narrow that would fit...

DIY White Velvet Headboard

I really tried to like the velvet headboard we got for E’s room last year. She went without a headboard for so long, and I found a great deal on a pink velvet headboard online (here’s the one we found for under $100 at the time we purchased). We repainted her room, lightened all the things around it, new white bedding, but no, I still could not grow to love this little pink headboard. And another closer: So this weekend...

Girls Butterfly Bedroom Refresh

It has been so fun to update my daughter’s room. She turned 5 this year, and while we’d slowly converted her room from a nursery to a bigger girl room over the past years, it was time to make it fancy and match her big girl personality. Her nursery was really adorable – with grey/purple walls, white and grey elephant decor. I hand-made several things, including her curtains (at 7 months pregnant), her elephant mobile (6 cute hand-made elephants on...

Inspiration for Our DIY Black Cabinet

The planning is on! Ryan and I are working on our plans for our next DIY furniture build. One thing we’ve learned is that the right tools are SO IMPORTANT. So is the right workspace for building level furniture pieces. With that in mind, we’re doing some more prep to start building some bigger furniture pieces for our formal living room. I’ve been researching options online. It’s shown me that what I want is a pair of custom cabinets. While...

5 Modern Console Table Lamps For Under $75

I am in the market for a new table lamp for our console table Ryan built. We are painting the living room lighter, and that creates lots of options for lamp base colors. I’m looking for something that’s around 20 inches tall, to offset the tall vase I have there. Here are a few I’m loving for under $75 (though almost all are under $40 at press time!). Opalhouse Lamp Target just does so many value decor deals the right...

How to Design a Star Wars Boy’s Room

Star Wars are a big thing in our household. Ryan and our son love to build Star Wars LEGO sets, and often find instructions for new sets to make out of our existing LEGO pieces. For major milestone rewards, Star Wars LEGOs have been our prize. So naturally when it came to updating our son’s bedroom last year, Star Wars was the front-runner theme. I started looking for inspiration ideas on Pinterest, but didn’t find a lot at the time....