Hello and happy Thursday! You guys have been asking and I’m happy to finally share how I stained, painted, and finished my son’s DIY cabin bed! I teamed up with the friendly folks at Rust-Oleum to bring you this finishing tutorial. Are you ready? Let’s do this! *This post contains affiliate links. To read my full disclosure…
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Swap It Like It’s Hot
I’ve come to the conclusion that I do not have a talent for finding, re-imagining, and revitalizing thrift store finds. My friend Charlotte from Ciburbanity, however, is a boss when it comes to transforming a jewel in the rough. I mean, just look at her impressive gallery of thrift store makeovers. Her ombre file cabinet is insane,…
Buy It Or Build It? DIY Toscana Bookshelf
Hi friends! If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, then you’ll be familiar with a new series I recently started called “Buy It or Build It?” Every week, I post different furniture pieces and ask my Instagram and Facebook friends: Would you Buy It or Build It? If the majority vote is to Build It! and…
Haven Conference 2016
Hello and happy Friday! I have some exciting news to share with you! If you’ve ever wanted to start a blog or you already have one, then this post is for you. Have you heard of The Haven Conference? It’s a 3-day event held in Atlanta, geared towards creative bloggers and entrepreneurs. I’m excited to announce…
Spring 2016 Home Tour
Hiiiii friends! I’m so excited to welcome you into my home for my first-ever home tour! Since we move around so often, I never really feel like our home is “tour-worthy,” know what I mean? Our home always seems to be in a state of incompletion – just when I get the picture frames up on…
How To Make A Wooden Doormat
*This post is brought to you by The Home Depot. Hello and happy Monday friends! I’m back to share my version of The Home Depot DIY Workshop’s Wooden Doormat! As you can see, I’m kinda diggin’ the tribal trend. Aw, who am I kidding? I’ve been riding that train since the early 90’s when I got that tribal tattoo on my right…
The Home Depot DIY Workshops 2016
*This post is brought to you by The Home Depot. Hello and happy Monday, friends! I have some exciting news to share. Last year, The Home Depot (my happy place!) invited me to be one of six bloggers on their first-ever DIY Workshops Team. We built a vertical planter, rolling grill cart, hanging plant stand, and…
Scrap Plywood Candle Holders
If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you would have seen this sneak peek. I asked y’all if you had any guesses as to what I was making and your answers were so clever – from toy wheels to giant checkers, I loved hearing all of your great ideas. Wood cookies? Sometimes I get…
How To Make A DIY Marble Table Lamp
Oh hi. It’s me again. I don’t usually post twice in one day but I figured today only comes around every 4 years, so why the heck not? If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you would have seen this sneak peek: Get excited. This DIY is going to blow minds (Hopefully. As long as I…
Build Something: DIY Desk with Hidden Printer Storage
Hello and happy Leap Day! I’m excited to be teaming up with my friends at BuildSomething.com again! If you’ve been hanging around here lately, you may remember me mentioning BuildSomething when I built my kids’ farmhouse craft table, scrap wood tool box, and bathroom shelf. If you love building and sharing your projects, but don’t have…
DIY Hexagon Planter
As many planters as I’ve built, you’d think I had a green thumb. You’d think. I mean, there was this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, oh, and this one… (planters, not thumbs – I only have two of those.) Six planters. SIX. Countless plant deaths. It’s botanicide. Maybe this is all…
10 Stunning DIY Consoles
Console tables are some of my favorite pieces of furniture. They’re so versatile – you can put them pretty much anywhere in the home and they serve many different purposes in different spaces. Here’s a round-up of 10 of my favorite DIY consoles. Click the images and links for more details on each table, some include free…
How To Build A Bookshelf with Simpson Strong-Tie
Hello and happy Tuesday, friends! I hope you enjoyed the long holiday weekend. I spent mine building, so I was a happy camper. Oh, and I have some super exciting news too. If you’ve been hanging around here for awhile, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of Simpson Strong-Tie® products. I used their connectors and fasteners when…
Homemade Apple and Cheddar Pupcakes
Yesterday, we celebrated Watson, our sweet Rhodesian Ridgeback. He turned six! He is officially older than us now (in dog years, of course). He’s getting a little sprinkling of gray on his chin and it’s the most adorable thing. Seriously, he is the sweetest, most gentle giant ever. Such a handsome devil too. He’s even a YouTube…
Fun and Stylish Desk Accessories
Hi. Me again. I’ve still got everything ‘home office’ on the brain. I’m kind of single-minded that way. This time, I’ve been browsing the web for some fun and stylish desk accessories. Here are a few fun things I found: (Click on any of the images below and you’ll be taken directly to the product page.) [show_ms_widget id=”31729096″…
20 Stylish Desk Chairs
You guys. I just bought a brand new iMac and the size and power of this thing is blowing.my.mind. My Sketchup furniture drawings are preeeeetty much life-sized. Of course, my new computer has me thinking of redesigning my whole workspace… or lack of one, really. I usually work solely on my Macbook Pro so my workspace was anywhere in the…
Build It & Blog It: Organization Challenge
Ahhhhh… Did you hear that? That was the sound of my long overdue sigh of relief. Thanks to the motivation of my blogger builder friends, I finally crossed this off my To Do list: You guys. This is what I was dealing with and it was not pretty. In fact, it was hardly functional. It was…
Free Plans: Rustic Cargo Nightstand
Thank you guys so much for the love and excitement over my son’s new cabin bed! We’re pretty excited about it. There were a few questions and comments regarding how difficult it is to change the sheets. While changing the sheets on this cabin bed isn’t as straight-forward as a standard bed where all the sides…
DIY Sign: Be Present. Be Intentional.
Do you have a word of the year? Are you one of those people? I am, even though I don’t like to admit it. My word of the year is ‘intentional.’ I get so caught up in the daily grind, that I often forget to be present and to live intentionally. My children are only little for such a…
Building Plans: Evelyn Chevron King Bed
It’s here! It’s here! It’s finally here! After getting so many requests for the building plans for this beautiful DIY West Elm Alexa Chevron Bed in a king size, I’m happy to finally deliver. Thank you for being so patient with me! *This post contains affiliate links. Click here to read my full disclosure policy. Loading……
DIY Cabin Bed
Ana White and I are alike in so many ways, it’s scary. She has two insanely good-looking kids, a girl and a boy. I have two insanely good-looking kids, a girl and a boy. She has an adoring, yet manly husband who encourages and supports her awesomely creative endeavors. I have an adoring, yet manly…
DIY Storage Bench
Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Instead of resolutions, I set goals for myself. I find that by setting goals, I can envision a finish line which makes it more attainable in my mind. Resolutions are far too abstract for my tiny lady brain to comprehend. Goals are concrete. Goals have a target. Getting organized is one of…
DIY Backpack Name Tags
Hello and Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season. Are you ready to get back to the daily grind? My daughter has been waiting all Christmas break to go back to school. Seriously. What a nerd. But then again, she is in Kindergarten and it’s always a party in K5, so I…
Top 20 DIY Projects of 2015
Can you believe it’s the final day of 2015?! Wow, what a spectacular year it’s been! Looking back on such a fun and productive year just makes me super excited about what 2016 has in store. Here are my Top 20 DIY Projects for 2015 (in no particular order): 1. West Elm-Inspired Chevron Bed I built this queen-sized bed…
Build Something: Kids Toolbox
My son received a set of play tools for Christmas so I built him his very own tool box to keep his tools corralled. This Kid’s Tool Box is a super simple beginner-level project that requires minimal materials and tools. In fact, it makes a great scrap wood project! Once again, I teamed up with the fine folks at…