Tag: do-it-yourself

Top 3 Most Common Mistakes Homeowners Make When Remodeling Kitchens and Bathrooms

Top 3 Most Common Mistakes Homeowners Make When Remodeling Kitchens and Bathrooms

The biggest mistakes homeowners like you and I make when remodeling kitchens and bathrooms are easily avoidable.

How to DIY Upgrade Your Bathroom Mirror With a Stained Wood Frame

How to DIY Upgrade Your Bathroom Mirror With a Stained Wood Frame

You walk into your bathroom at least twice a day. Raise the little ones full time? We’re talking a minimum of 17 bathroom visits – on a good day.

How to Make a DIY Fire Pit in Your Backyard

How to Make a DIY Fire Pit in Your Backyard

Your indoor space is all the rage, but your outdoor space needs a little work. You want the party to spill over from your family room into the backyard? Then it’s time for a fire pit. It couldn’t be more ideal for hosting during cool 

How to Use a Cordless Drill-Driver, Impact Driver & Corded Drill Like a Pro

How to Use a Cordless Drill-Driver, Impact Driver & Corded Drill Like a Pro

Do NOT do what I did. Hand-me-down cordless drill. Zero “how-to” tutorials or mentorship. Pseudo-masculine infused confidence (the reason all things break before warranty). 10 minutes worth of power per battery, maybe. The amperage to drill through some mean cardboard. Or to effortlessly predrill through 

Actual Renovation (Maybe): Installing New Rustic Laminate Floors in our First House

Actual Renovation (Maybe): Installing New Rustic Laminate Floors in our First House

We closed on our first house the day before Halloween. House-buddy knew getting a makeover was his destiny, so he staged the house accordingly.

How to Paint, Stain, Whitewash & Distress a Fancy X Farmhouse Table by Ana White

How to Paint, Stain, Whitewash & Distress a Fancy X Farmhouse Table by Ana White

What does your table stand for? Is it only functional, or does it serve a deeper purpose?

How to Build an Entryway Organizer for Mail, Keys, Wallets and Coats

How to Build an Entryway Organizer for Mail, Keys, Wallets and Coats

(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 

How to Stain, Whitewash & Distress a Herringbone Headboard

How to Stain, Whitewash & Distress a Herringbone Headboard

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 

How to build a DIY herringbone headboard with wood shims

How to build a DIY herringbone headboard with wood shims

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 

How to Install a DIY Restoration Hardware Copycat Maison Bed Headboard | Part III

How to Install a DIY Restoration Hardware Copycat Maison Bed Headboard | Part III

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 

How to Finish a DIY Restoration Hardware Copycat Maison Bed Headboard | Part II

How to Finish a DIY Restoration Hardware Copycat Maison Bed Headboard | Part II

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 

How to Build a DIY Restoration Hardware Copycat Maison Bed Headboard | Part I

How to Build a DIY Restoration Hardware Copycat Maison Bed Headboard | Part I

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