After we finished the desk portion of the kitchen (you can read about that here), it dawned on us rocket scientists that we forgot to install the corbels before we finished the top trim. In a perfect world, we would have installed the corbels to butt up against the beadboard backsplash, then cut the trim to […]

In my last post , I told you about my Nutrisystem diet plan. I’ve been following it pretty well (except for eating out a couple of times and I ate small portions)  ~ eating the menu plan, drinking lots of water, exercising regulary. This is my fifth day of torture dieting, and I haven’t lost a single […]

Cornelius Celsus once said “Live in rooms full of light.” Well, I guess I can live in my pantry now. I told you in this post that we bought a new 10 window pantry door. We went to Home Depot, gave the nice man in the door section the measurements (which we had to call Son #3 […]

In this post I told you about the new 10 window pane pantry door we bought from Home Depot. I can’t decide what color to paint it. During our kitchen renovation, I’ve been seeing a lot of inspiration for colorful doors. Here’s some that I just love! Source Source Source Source Coastal Living I haven’t chosen […]

We are SOOOOOOOOOO enjoying our new kitchen counters and sink. The LOML said sleeping in the kitchen was a very bad idea but I really wanted to!! Me and Son #4 did a little project today I thought I would share with you. A while back we painted the door and drawer pulls black with […]

Does anyone else out there put too much pressure on themselves?! Or is it just me? For example, whenever we have company coming to stay over, I ALWAYS have to do something to the house…be it painting, hanging new pictures, fixing broken tiles in a bathroom, or redoing the landscaping outside. PLEASE tell me I’m […]