Tag: renovation

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. Austin A.Dad-blogger. Certified nutritionist. Researcher, innovator, dreamer. Community builder, connector & networker. The perfectionist (slow as mud). The woodworker. The benefit-of-the-doubt, hypersensitive, feeler, emotron. Helper. Adventurer. The host. 

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. Austin A.Dad-blogger. Certified nutritionist. Researcher, innovator, dreamer. Community builder, connector & networker. The perfectionist (slow as 

How to Make $100,000 Profit on the Sale of Your First Home: DIY, ROI & Real Estate Strategy

How to Make $100,000 Profit on the Sale of Your First Home: DIY, ROI & Real Estate Strategy

Disclaimer: we’re not realtors. Just a couple of home-happy millennials. This is not professional advice – simply an experience worth sharing. Austin A.Dad-blogger. Certified nutritionist. Researcher, innovator, dreamer. Community builder, connector & networker. The perfectionist (slow as mud). The woodworker. The benefit-of-the-doubt, hypersensitive, feeler, emotron. 

Laundry Room Renovation Reveal & 9 Step-By-Step Tutorials

Laundry Room Renovation Reveal & 9 Step-By-Step Tutorials

When we first bought this house, the laundry room was easily one of our least favorite spaces. It had lovely white but also kind-of-yellow walls that we’ve heard referred to as “builder beige”. It had rickety, wire shelves. (You know, the kind that all your 

How to Make & Install DIY Stained Wood Shelves

How to Make & Install DIY Stained Wood Shelves

Your wall is bare. Too bare. Not modern minimalist. More like backcountry bachelor. In the words of the Barenaked Ladies, it’s been one week since you looked at the gaping negative space. It’s time for a little visual interest. Let’s make something beautiful. Austin A.Dad-blogger. 

How to Saw Your Door Bottom to Fit Over the Threshold

How to Saw Your Door Bottom to Fit Over the Threshold

Let me guess. You renovated your flooring from shabby to chic, but your door won’t fit over the new threshold. Been there, friend. Your gorgeous new floor deserves a properly functioning transition from room to room. Austin A.Dad-blogger. Certified nutritionist. Researcher, innovator, dreamer. Community builder, 

How to DIY Install Floor Tile

How to DIY Install Floor Tile

Like your marriage depends on it. Or committed relationship. Or sanity. Or monetary ROI. Or something far less overblown and dramatic. Well, your free time depends on it. And DIY prowess. And reputation among friends as being a handy-human. Not to mention your leveled-up joy 

How to Finish Your Reclaimed Table with Stain, Paint, Distressing, Boiled Linseed Oil, Urethane and Mineral Spirits

How to Finish Your Reclaimed Table with Stain, Paint, Distressing, Boiled Linseed Oil, Urethane and Mineral Spirits

Handcrafting a gorgeous table, but wanting to save some cash in the creative process? 100% hardwood tables cost the prettiest of pennies. 100% soft dimensional lumber-made tables are THE most cost effective, but are usually stained on top to yield a more expensive aesthetic – 

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. Austin A.Dad-blogger. Certified nutritionist. Researcher, innovator, dreamer. Community builder, connector & networker. The perfectionist (slow as mud). The woodworker. The benefit-of-the-doubt, 

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? Austin A.Dad-blogger. Certified nutritionist. Researcher, innovator, dreamer. Community builder, connector & networker. The perfectionist (slow as mud). The woodworker. The benefit-of-the-doubt, hypersensitive, feeler, emotron. Helper. Adventurer. The host. 

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