About a month and a half ago, I showed you my living room along with how I planned to spruce it up. It didn’t need major changes, but it was looking flat and boring. Everything was brown on brown on brown. With some small tweaks like moving secondary pieces of furniture, swapping out the rug and adding […]
Living room bench transformation
I’m finally finished with the bench makeover, but the process was not without a few mishaps. As a reminder, this is what the bench looked like when I bought it. (Well, this is the product photo from HomeDecorators.com. I didn’t actually assemble before painting.) In real life, the wood was even orangier than I expected. Luckily, I […]
Trash to treasure: Monogram wall art
I’m in love with monograms. It’s true. It might be my secret, subconcious mission to incorporate one into every room on our house. I’m well on my way to acheiving that goal and here’s one more. Remember this cutie? My 70-cent little kid side table (in pieces) from the clearance racks at T.J. Maxx? I wasn’t […]
Pillows with piping: Not as scary as it looks!
Wonderful news, everyone! I learned how to sew piping! Well, actually there wasn’t much to learn, but I was intimidated. It looks hard. It looks fancy. I thought I needed a special piping foot for my sewing machine, but it turns out you can get away with using a zipper foot, which is pretty standard […]
Restyling the mantel
I restyled the mantel (finally). I much prefer to do something non-seasonal because I am lazy and don’t take things down timely enough. I just got around to taking down the Christmastime pine greenery a couple of weeks ago. And I think Elise’s birthday party garland was up for like three months after her party […]