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Neutral Rugs to Brighten Any Room

It’s no secret: I’m on a mission to brighten several rooms in our house from the darker and mid-darker grey pallet we currently have.  I’ve talked about some of my favorite whites here.  We’re in the process of lightening up our formal living space and upstairs stairway and hallway.  The upstairs space has no natural light, and the key to brightening this space up will be light paint.   Our formal living room is only occasionally a place we chill in and most often...

How to DIY Wood Wrapped Canvas Art for under $100

Landscape canvas large form prints have a huge impact in any room. Many designers are using these as focal pieces in dining and living rooms, and I’ve seen some gorgeous wood floating framed canvas prints that I would love to have for my home. McGee and Co. has some beauties, including this landscape piece in a floating frame for about $1,478 for a 72×48 inch print: And for around $600 and at a size of 26×37, this piece is another...

Hanging Green Plant Wall Art

Adding dimensional art to your walls can create depth and comfort to any room. Make it live plants and your walls will thank you. Hanging live plants on walls can requires some minimal upkeep, but there are some very low maintenance options you can consider. Here is what we chose for my office walls: To use this wall pot, I bought a set of small succulent plants to spread between the two wall vases. I used black river stones I’ve...

Round Wall Mirrors

After Ryan built the new Restoration Hardware hack entry table, I began looking for a 28-32 inch round mirror to place above the table. We previously had a portrait of my son as a baby that was too cute for words. But it was time to dress that wall up more with the wood table. And it’s nice to have a mirror to check ourselves before answering the door. I found a great deal at Target, where really great designers...

Update Console Table – Black and Brass

Before Ryan made this awesome Restoration Hardware Oak Hack Console Table, for several years we had this console table in light grey by our front door. After about a year, we painted it a deeper blue hue. I liked it and it served its purpose as a narrow console in our entry way in our last house and our current house. I didn’t want to get rid of it when Ryan made our new RH hack console table (as you...

How to Make Kid Art Photo Books

My Littles are now 5 and 7 and they LOVE art. They love making it and have since they were babies. And I love looking at it and can’t bring myself to throw out the pretty pieces, including chalk drawings from my son when he was 18 months old that don’t really look like much. We keep an Ikea hack cork frame in our kitchen for kid art, which we proudly display on a rotating basis. It’s nice to keep...

Fall Paint Refresh Color Palette

After much deliberating, I have narrowed down our fall paint refresh colors. We plan to tackle the rooms weekend by weekend, finishing the kitchen refresh in the spring. We’ve done our family room, and next up is our formal living room, upstairs hallway and stairs. Our stairwell rebuild project is on hold for a bit while we determine the order of newels vs. new carpet solutions for the stairs, but I am so ready to brighten up the main living...

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....

How to Organize your Kitchen Pantry

I have been working on organizing my kitchen pantry for several weeks. Then I saw The Home Edit’s show on Netflix and my mind was blown and I was ready to double down on getting it clean. I Marie Kondo’d our house last January and was so excited to take the next step on my path to orderliness. I love organization, and even have rubbed off on my son, who is excited to organize his Legos in color coordinated bins...

Office desk with real wood top

IKEA Hemnes Desk Hack – Finishing Style Touches

This year has been an interesting one for us all. The news in March that we were to work from home created some interesting space challenges for Ryan and I. My office became the guest bedroom, where we had a queen bed and large dresser, and not room for much else. Someone gave us a small Ikea secretary desk, which tied me over for some time. It was broken and when open took up a lot of space without a...