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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Girl Scout's honor, we found a diamond ring beneath the kitchen floor when I removed it this weekend. Before I even get into the demo-fun that ensued in the process, …
Guess what arrived yesterday? Hints: Inspired by the bathroom remodel. For the kitchen. Special ordered from The Home Depot. Bundled in four approx. 400-lb boxes that made me feel like my …
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 …
I'm not allowing myself to tear up the kitchen floor before the bathroom is done, but updating it is hot on my list, and hopefully something that I can finish …
Surely it was the alluring power of the shaggy bear that pushed me to have my first DIY rug project done in just under a month. Inspired by xoelle's tutorial, I …
I dropped another 10.5 hours into the shaggy bear rug project last week (stopping because my fingers are once again blistered, I ran out of fabric, and to fill myself …
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, …
I spent another 9 hours laboring on the bear rug over the last 7 days (if not for holiday wrapping and cookie baking, it probably would have been more). This …
Rawr. The bear rug is progressing, but slowly. This is my official 1-week update. 12.5 hours invested. 4 yards of fabric used (I just had to buy more over the weekend). My …
My big Black Friday goal was to find a set of matching 5x7' area rugs for the carpet-less office (with free shipping, if I could be so lucky). But I …
Maybe it occurred to you when I showed you the feet of my inexpensive IKEA chairs that they were causing serious pain to my hardwoods. That right there is the direct …
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 …
Here's something I bet you didn't see coming. Buh-bye, DIY-stenciled sunroom dots. You were fun while you lasted. The backstory on this second-time-around-sunroom-floor-painting-balooza has to do with 4 things: 1.) Wear. 2.) Tear. 3.) Flatness. 4.) …
I'm not done with the stair painting project. Getting there, though. There was a little snafu along the way; I had a change of heart. There were grand plans laid …
It wasn't too long ago that I snapped this photo of some lady's foot and a great wooden (albeit very weathered) doormat at one of my random garage sale stops. …
I approached this whole paint-a-border-on-the-sunroom-floor thing with patience. This is not common of me. It took a while to select a floor stencil design to apply (unusually indecisive), and then I took …
True story: Last week, it was 1-degree one day, and 31-degrees the next day in Rochester. That temperature difference is just as drastic a change as if it had been …
Back before the snow really started, I dwelled about how I really needed to come up with a good way to store my wet boots and protect my nice hardwood …
I'm really not a vinyl floor kind of girl. Hardwoods have my heart. Ceramic, great; porcelain, marble, or slate, amazing (and heated tile, especially in the bathroom, even better). But …
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!
