While tidying up my hard drive I found a folder containing the photos from our home’s real estate listing back in 2008 when we purchased it. It’s so weird to see someone else’s stuff in our home! I got a kick out of comparing the previous owners’ old photos to more recent ones that I [...]
Our guest bedroom was one of the first rooms I decorated after we moved in. It has been four years since then, so my taste has changed a bit. Daniel wanted to swap his office with the guest bedroom (since there are more A/C vents in that room), so we made the switch over the [...]
The basement bathroom is done! It’s a tiny bathroom with a low ceiling, so I kept it simple and clutter free. The previous owners had installed way too many storage cabinets (even more than you can see in the before photos). It was so claustrophobic in there, and everything was grungy and gross. Now it [...]
The electrician just left, and I now have my very own massive paper lantern. I love it even more than I thought I would! I ordered a 42″ lantern but they were backordered, so I got the 36″ model instead. I suppose it is sufficiently large. What do you think?
I’ll admit that these aren’t the most exciting before and after pictures, but I spent forever working on this hallway so humor me! Painting stained trim and doors is awful. It’s so tedious with all the sanding, taping, priming, and multiple coats of paint. Once the trim was finished I noticed that the drywall was in [...]
We watched an episode of Hoarders this past weekend in which a lady hoarded food. Most of it was long expired, and there were heaps of rotting produce in every room of her house with plenty of swarming flies. It motivated me to clean out our pantry. The worst thing I found was a box [...]
The guest room was a blank slate when we moved in. I like how the room is looking, but I still need to add something quirky to personalize it—like the poop in the bathroom or the zombies on the mantle. Oh, and can’t you hear the bed crying out for more throw pillows? Before: After:
I started peeling the wallpaper off our guest bathroom walls as soon as we moved into our house. The wallpaper seemed to be original to the house (1971) and had been hung directly on bare unpainted drywall. Each piece of wallpaper that came down tore off a big chunk of dry wall with it. (That’s [...]
After much painting, organizing, shelf hanging, and cabinet-putting-together-ing the laundry room is finally finished! It is bright and sunny, just like I wanted. Now let’s see how long I can keep it looking this good… (And yes, yes I did change laundry detergents so the bottle would match…) The Taming of the Laundry Room (Part [...]