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How to Make a Floating Picture Frame

We’ve been updating our wall art over the past few months. One way we’re updating our art is by swapping out smaller art pieces for large form art. We’ve found a great way to save money by creating canvas wrapped frames from downloadable art, which you can read about How to Create Wrapped Canvas Art for under $100 here. With all the large form art now, we wanted to frame them. We opted for a floating frame style. This post...

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...

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...

Upgrade your Pulls and Knobs to Enhance your Cabinets

Swapping out your existing pulls and knobs is an easy DIY project and can really change the character of your space. It can be as simple as only needing a screw driver. Lucky us, we needed to drill new holes in our cabinets which was a wee bit stressful. Here are some tips and tricks to upgrading those knobs and pulls. Selecting Hardware Finish. Because the majority of our existing finishes are satin, we opted to stay with a similar...

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...

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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...

Kitchen Refresh – From Grey to White

It’s time to endure more kitchen work. I’ve had a chance to recover from the last overhaul we did, and barely even remember when the entire kitchen, pantry and refrigerator were in our family room, eating dinner at the kitchen table next to the TV. We modernized our kitchen from this: Into this kitchen: I’ve enjoyed you, grey counters, but I’m ready for more white. Here are the top contenders: It’s down to Sileston Et Statuario or Ceaserstone Frosty Carrina....