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 pretty obvious that our house needs assistance in the lighting area. Especially in the evening, and especially the living room, which lacks a ceiling light altogether. We don't own …
Gels, Geniuses, Gifts, I went all over the place last week in posts on DIY Network's blog Made + Remade. Catch up on these quick reads for yourself: 1. I demonstrated …
I know you guys can only be so interested in tales of laborious brush removal. I only care to think about it so much too. This is the kind of …
Hey! We moved the couch! That's good progress on our road to making this place cozy. I can't believe I live in a place with a room big enough to accommodate a …
I feel like it's going to take us a long time to get this place in order, and the longer we sit around not doing things to the interior of …
I moved into my first apartment in Rochester 7 years ago today. It was a hot day then, like it is now, but the heat wasn't enough of a deterrent …
I hadn't planned on mentioning it, but we spent most of last week vacationing on Wellesley Island in the Thousand Islands. I was relaxed from the grind immediately, and we …
Sometimes the brush removal is as easy as this. Refer to yesterday's post to refer to a more challenging shrub removal project. We're on a mission to establish a deer-resistent landscape, a …
Sometimes, we rage. Our neighbors alerted us to it being brush-pickup-week in the 'hood last week, which was the perfect opportunity for us to do a little spring summer cleaning …
I've had the best time over the last few weeks planning and creating projects for Made + Remade. DIY Network has a lot of good things coming in the next …
We had our first yard sale of the summer over the weekend, smack dab in the middle of our new big driveway. Maybe if we had planned better and the weather …
I posted a photo of our doorbell a few weeks ago on Instagram. I also commented that its chime rang beautifully like the bells at St. Bonaventure. If I only …
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, …
The day that we hooked up the new washer and dryer was also the day that we learned that the standing shower in the bathroom was prone to dumping water into the …
Is it worth mentioning that I've never had to buy an appliance, ever? Not at all for my old house (the ones it came with were standard but plenty fine) …
I have yet to take you on any sort of formal tour of our big backyard, but we've been making slow progress in mowing tall grass, clearing out brush and …
It was hard to take a weekend away from the house so soon after moving; the list of things that need to be done is really long, not to mention …
It's our 10th day of new homeownership, and it's been the best kind of busy weeks. Though we hardly feel ready to take a break from it all (hello, there …
The basement to the house is deep-deep. Deep in the sense that it boasts 8-foot ceilings throughout, save for where the sunken living room dips downward, leaving us with 7-ft. …
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.
Thanks for visiting!
