On our last trip to IKEA (I believe there will be an IKEA in Heaven girls!), we bought two of this great lamp for the family room redo. But if you know me at all, I'm not a white kinda gal. I love color and lots of it! So I wanted to cover the lampshades with […]
DIY Projects
STAINING SOME BUTCHERBLOCK COUNTERS ~ a really long counter!
How was your weekend? I hope you enjoyed time with family and friends like I was blessed to be able to do. Friday night our family went to a Durham Bulls baseball game. It was an exciting game and the park does a fantastic job of entertaining the crowd during slow periods of the […]
KICKING OUT THE KICK SPACE ~ trimming off the bottom space of our cabinets
We got a little work done on our family room built-ins last week. How exciting!! If you can remember we bought a whole set of kitchen cabinets from The Habitat for Humanity ReStore. We got a little side tracked with the tv niche. But the LOML thinks he wants to do "easy" cuts […]
CONTINUATION OF CLOSING UP THE TV NICHE
We've been so busy lately that our fireplace mantel project has been stuck looking like this FOREVER!!!!!! So this weekend, the LOML mudded it and me and Son #3 sanded it….TWICE! My arms are killing me! There was a thick layer of dried mud on everything! YUCK! I painted the space with two coats […]
PLANNING FOR BUILT-IN BOOKCASES ~ a glimpse into the future
I told you last week that we bought a whole set of cabinets from the Habitat for Humanity ReStore. We're planning to use the bottom cabinets to make a wall of built-in bookcases in our family room. Here is the before picture of the family room wall where the bookcases will go. You can […]
A FAMILY ROOM MAKEOVER ~ let’s put a little light on the situation
We have been very busy planning our next project!! OUR FAMILY ROOM MAKEOVER We've already laid the plywood floors. We're in the process of a fireplace mantle makeover An electrician is coming tomorrow to give us an estimate on some work we need done: 1) Sconces on each side of the new mantle. […]