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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My undertakings of late have been feeling a little intense. Finishing the bathroom. Making new pillows and ottoman covers. Installing bifold doors. Staining the hexagon headboards. To take a weight …
I'm not much of one to totally overhaul a room or totally swap out my decor from season-to-season, regardless how highly House Beautiful suggests I embrace Hunting Coat Red for …
True story: That louvered bifold door at the top of my stairs? It's a phony-bologna. It's never been really installed to fold out on a track, instead, it's wedged and …
The hexagonal/geometric/honeycomb headboard showed earlier this week came together really nicely. It's still surprising to me that it's just wood glue holding these geometric shapes together, but in person, it …
The front yard began to look pretty grimy as we transitioned into full-fledged springtime in Rochester. The change in seasons always kind of hits like a tornado, prompting the 400,000 …
I've been scheming a bedroom update for awhile, a concept to expand upon the shiplap wall and add a more defined headboard accent. (UPDATE: You can jump to the finished, …
I've only identified one little issue with the new front door that I had installed in the spring of 2010: lack of visibility. It was an issue that I considered back …
This little unfinished bamboo friend has been hanging out in the house for the last 2 years. Rarely seen, it flows through the house like a ghost, rarely captured in …
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 …
For Part 1, start here. It was really a pleasant surprise to find that shale makes a kick ass floor. The big box full of rocks sat in the back of …
Ready for Part 2? Jump to here. I've had this vision of a installing a stone entryway floor for years. Sure, cool in theory, kind of what you'd expect in an …
Every so often, I feel like blasting off a list of little odds and ends I've been doing, buying, and appreciating around the house. Not everything's DIY-focused, and not everything …
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 …
For the first time in 3 stubborn years, I'm following the directions on the seed packages that I picked up at Home Depot; I like to think that a green …
From time to time I come up with some harebrained ideas, and most of the time, we're not 100% sure those ideas will work out in execution. An idea that …
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 …
Last fall, I spent several days making a trio of ottomans to accent the living room. They've been a perfect foot rest when seated at the couch, the perfect extra …
It's been a long time coming, but I think I'm finally done with the floor portion of our kitchen "remodel". Let's use the term "remodel" loosely; it hardly seems such …
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 …
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!
