I'm a home improvement enthusiast, living a very merry DIY lifestyle.
You can find me writing for HGTV and DIY Network, follow me on facebook and instagram, or drop me a note if you'd like. I love notes.
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It's been 6 years since we opted to paint all of the walls and trim in our entire house in Sherwin Williams "Snowbound" shade of white. We even used this …
This post was originally published on DIY Network’s blog Made + Remade in November 2014. Feeling the pressure this Thanksgiving week? Making a cheery home and table that will ‘wow’ your …
This post was originally published on DIY Network’s blog Made + Remade in December 2013. Add a personal touch to any party by using chalkboard paint to create everything from customizable placemats to …
It was about two years ago that I began campaigning hard for a table and set of chairs from a local library. It was at that time that the library, …
Hey Lap. No regrets, you've beyond exceeded my expectations... and your packaging exceeded that of my wildly creative children. Figuring out how to furnish the big long walls in our house in …
It's a special kind of night when you sit down to catch up on your weekly cbs.com fix, and instead get sucked into the vortex of a semi-annual online event, …
I got bored after writing about our maple flooring progress all of last week, that's why I've gone silent on it over the last few days, despite the rad encouragement …
It would seem as though I have a really long way to go in this whole becoming-a-woman-of-domestic-means thing, and I don't mean in the sense that I feel the need …
We knew that priming our home wasn't going to be a lightning fast effort, if it took us multiple days, even a week, or if our schedules only allowed us …
Sherwin-Williams graciously sponsored this post! We are so lucky to have them pitching in to help support our super summer of painting. If I haven't already made it very clear, …
We toured the house for the first time with our realtor, and for the second time during our home inspection in mid-April. The property was a lot different then than …
Now that everything's out in the open after last week's emotional tales, I'm ready to dish on other things. For one thing, I unleashed a new board on Pinterest dedicated to …
We took an impromptu trip to the IKEA in Burlington, Ontario over the weekend, a stop on our Saturday of belated Valentine's fun that also included Niagara Falls, the Seneca …
After sharing my swatch testing experiment I had good vibes about painting the whole upper half of the living room in #3, a Behr color match to Valspar's Fennel Splash (if fennel could …
It's not often that I feel compelled to change wall colors. When it comes right down to it, painting over and over again is a total bother, and I don't …
I've been mustering up the courage to begin disassembling the cabinets in the kitchen after Friday's announcement, but I'm not quite there yet. Soon. In the meantime, my mom surprised …
When I made a bunch of cement planters last year, I knew right off the bat that they weren't going to be a long term success. Hell, there was e-6000 …
Another long and unnecessarily difficult shopping experience has passed, as my special order shelving brackets arrived last week. May there now finally be shelves in the dining room, since my …
If I opened every email that I've received from fab.com, I'd be getting fab stuff in the mail on a daily basis. I'd also probably be eating some less-than-fab Ramen …
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 also find me writing for Home Living Handbook, a Pursuit Channel for Men's Journal, HGTV.com, and a handful of other websites.
Thanks for visiting!
