I'm a home improvement enthusiast, living a very merry DIY lifestyle.
You can find me writing for Home Living Handbook, HGTV.com, and a handful of other websites. Follow me on facebook and instagram, or drop me a note if you'd like. I love notes.
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It's a big day in DIY world, a day I've been looking forward to since we started the bathroom renovation on December 26th. Please believe me when I say that …
It's high time I showed you some of the finishing touches and pieces of decor that I've added to the bathroom. Some of these pieces I wish I had installed …
The window trim and door threshold really have nothing in common sequentially, but I squeezed them both in, same day, easy peasy, on Day 17 of our bathroom remodel. There came …
Once you get out of the swing of measuring and cutting trim, whether it be to frame a door, baseboard, crown moulding, or windows, it's really, really hard to jump …
If you've ever wanted to hang a mirror without a frame, I can help. Here's a tutorial on how to install a frameless mirror to any wall, and securely at …
It's official: We've been working on the bathroom for 2 months now. Color me happy though, because we've finally reached a point where it's all about the finishing touches, no …
I'm all about doing the necessary things to get toilets reinstalled these days. Runner-up to the shower, it's the happiest thing about the bathroom at the moment. True story: We were …
With the addition of the bathroom floor, the room is starting to feel d-o-n-e, except that there's still no vanity or toilet, but those are tiny things, right? There's a lot …
A girl really grows tired of storing 4'x8' underlayment boards against the wall in the dining room. If you've ever renovated any part of your home, you'll appreciate that the …
In the grand scheme of do-it-yourself home improvement, we got a lot done on Day 9 of our bathroom renovation. True story, Day 9 of active construction translates to Day …
As you'll read in this week's bathroom renovation update on DIY Network, we spent all of days 5, 6, 7, and 8 covered in thin-set and installing tiles. Home improvement …
Officially 4 weeks into the bathroom renovation, but as far as you know, we're on Day 4 of hard work. I can report that even in real-time we still don't …
This whole bathroom renovation has the potential to quickly move along. On Day 2 we installed the bathtub, and on Day 3, we: Built custom inset shelving Installed moisture barriers …
With the bathroom renovation well-underway, we're consumed in new-tool-toy-furniture madness over here. The whole tear-out-your-bathroom-and-put-it-back-together process is certainly time consuming, and because we're still charging through with other projects and work, it's taking …
Excitement ensued on Day 2 as we hauled home a brand new bathtub and hooked it up. There is nothing not exciting about cleanliness, and something invariably more special about cleanliness …
This week... we demo'ed the bathroom. Everything functional about it is gone-zo. Cleared out. Sayonara. The old bathtub sits in the driveway, the toilet in the basement, and the sink …
My big undertaking during the month of January is a bathroom renovation. While everyone else has been frantically gathering the last of their holiday gifts, over here in bathroom renovation land, …
Not terribly long after I launched Merrypad, I posted about my then-current paint palette. That graphic looked something like this: But in the last year, likely because I was challenging myself with …
A quick intro to a not-so-quick post: Let me backtrack 6 months to when we were demo-ing the basement "bathroom". The half-bath (shown in that thumbnail to the left) in …
I'm a home improvement enthusiast, living a very merry DIY lifestyle. Follow me on facebook and instagram, or drop me a note if you'd like. I love notes.
You can find me writing for Home Living Handbook, HGTV.com, and a handful of other websites.
Thanks for visiting!
