(Read with House Hunters sterile RoboLady voice) We enter our perfect-for-entertaining open floor plan with high ceilings, hardwoods throughout and an updated kitchen for better resale (end HH voice). Mail, keys, wallets and coats are dang EVERYWHERE, or gone forever. Clutter is the proverbial endless …
Welcome to the Rez, friend! We’re super glad you stopped by to try your hand at beautifying your custom piece of woodworked art we like to call a headboard. But feel free to use this finishing technique on any and every piece of wood you …
Good ole Pinterest, all the DIY blogs, the Google machine and home design magazines are “inadvertently” wooing and beckoning your gaze with their custom-built rustic chic furniture pieces. Is that a droplet of drool I spy, easing itself out of the corner of your jaw-dropped …
Part I – The Build? Crushed it. Part II – The Finish? Dominated. Now we’re ready for the finale: Part III – how to install this really friggin heavy piece of art you just created with your Behr hands (stuff never comes off). Let’s get …
Welcome back, DIYer! Part I was quite the journey (the build). This is Part II of the Restoration Hardware copycat headboard tutorial. We’ll be covering the “finishing” component in this post: painting the casing, waxing the casing, adding white ribbon to the edge of the …
Restoration Freaking Hardware. *Sigh*. Why do you always leave needing wanting everything you see – perfectly space-planned and tastefully positioned in your own “home design studio”. Better yet, outsource a Restoration Hardware design consultant to redecorate your frumptown fabrics, granny graphics & tacky trinkets with …
Visual home marketing has a strong hold on your psyche. Don’t believe me? You cruise & peruse Restoration Hardware, West Elm and Z Gallerie showrooms (what is this thing you call a “mall”? Never heard of it). You jump on the computing device to glance …
Beadboard Confessional Confession: we’re incapable of moving into a house and not renovating something. It’s practically a family tradition. Or a family addiction. I guess we need rehab. Or to rehab another room in our home to get our (non-literal) fix. Our disorder could use …
The Humble Beginning So we’re adulting with all of our might inside a quaint little apartment in burbtown USA. Aka racial homogeneity land (the worst). Aka Neo Pleasantville pre disruption from Witherspoon.
The Dilemma You’re in your kitchen, eyeing your built-in recirculating fan underneath your microwave. Sexy. But when you turn up your home cooked cuisine, it seems to better function as a white noise machine than a stovetop exhaust cleaner. Or perhaps you have the upgrade. …
Round 2: Let’s Get Down to the Nitty Gritty (In 1950s male announcer voice, spoken far too quickly for modern American intelligibility) Previously on The Journey of the Thumb… Austin commits involuntary plantslaughter. Wildlife witnesses prosecute. SeedEaters (aka birds & squirrels & bugs, oh sigh) …
The Journey of the Thumb Ever been accused of having a “black thumb“? Likely it was unintelligibly uttered under granny’s breath to your progenitress (your mom) at the last backyard family luncheon you hosted. Allow me to elaborate. It’s when you wholeheartedly attempt grow photosynthetic …
