Tag: renovation

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 

Buffalo Chicken Stuffed Spaghetti Squash Recipe

Buffalo Chicken Stuffed Spaghetti Squash Recipe

Did your mom ever give you spaghetti squash as a kid and pass it off as actual spaghetti? Maybe not. Well mine did and I loved it then (usually with butter and brown sugar cause mama ain’t above a bribe) and I love it now. 

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 

How to Build & Install a Sliding Barn Door

How to Build & Install a Sliding Barn Door

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 

DIY Cladding Your Kitchen Peninsula With New or Reclaimed Pallet Wood

DIY Cladding Your Kitchen Peninsula With New or Reclaimed Pallet Wood

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 

“Our” Very First Furniture Refinishing Sesh

“Our” Very First Furniture Refinishing Sesh

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.