This corner of the kitchen has needed some attention for quite a long time. Do you see the pile of recipe books and papers on the bottom shelf? Unfortunately, they are in no particular order because when I’m in a hurry (most of the year) I usually toss a new …

This little corner is seen when you first walk into the house from the front entryway. Before last weekend’s remodel, it looked like this: The busyness of the faux painting has been wearing me out for a long time so I was THRILLED when Tim & Emily offered to paint …

A while ago I posted about our new bedroom set. If you’re wondering why we have a new bedroom set and my parents have our old bedroom set you’ll have to go back and read this blog entry regarding our master bedroom. (LOL). Rather than having to take several trips …

Can you believe we’re actually at the point of having noticeable progress in several areas? WHOO HOO! We finished up everything around the window and toilet area this weekend! Here is a view from standing back at the far end of the bathroom. Here is a closeup of the tiebacks! …

Emily decided to clean out the rubbermaid cabinet while I was busy doing other things in the kitchen. Why is it that everytime we go through it (several times a year) we STILL find more things to get rid of? Don’t you think we would have eventually gotten rid of …

Yesterday I had a TON of errands to do in town. I wasn’t shopping for the bathroom, but I FINALLY ran across a garbage can, soap dispenser, toilet paper holder, etc., that all match. They are white porcelain with brushed nickel trim. It’s *PERFECT* and the best part is they …

We’re finally making some noticeable progress in the bathroom. A few weeks ago my mom came over and textured the walls. This picture shows the previous style texture on the left and the new, rough/rugged style, texture on the right. Here’s what it looks like after we primed it. Josh …

Our waterheater closet door is the dark spot you see to the right of this picture. Everything that was dark colored has now been painted white. I’ll give an overall bathroom update later, but for now I’m just going to show what a difference it made to change just this …

This summer my mom decided she wanted a new bedroom set. She shopped a little bit and decided the set she wanted was OURS! It was really hard for us to decide to get rid of ours because it was the first “real” furniture that we purchased eons ago. We …