I love the updates to our master bathroom, but my favorite part of the whole room is definitely the vanity. It has three “hidden” features that make it really easy to keep organized. Hidden Toe Kick Storage Drawer It looks like a normal vanity, right? Do you see something hiding in the toe kick area…

When we moved into our house seven years ago the bathroom vanity was falling apart, and . . . kind of gross. So gross I didn’t even want to use it. So we didn’t. For seven years. I built a shelf on the wall above the tub and put most of the bathroom “stuff” on…

Guess what? The modern outdoor sofa I built was really just one half of the modern outdoor L couch that I made for our back patio: I wanted to add add many seats as possible to our back patio and figured an outdoor L couch was the best way to do it. When I was…

Building the modern outdoor sofa and the modern outdoor L couch didn’t actually take much time. In fact, it probably took longer to add the finishing touches. This post goes into a little detail about how I finished it: the exterior finish/stain I choseadding furniture levelersmaking cushions 1. Stain for Exterior Applications Since this is…

I finished building this modern outdoor couch a few weeks ago, and its presence on the back patio has made such a difference in my feelings about our backyard. I love spending our evenings outside and WISH I would have built this years ago!  This outdoor couch is a fairly simple build. Though I designed…

*This post is sponsored by The Home Depot Earlier this year Jim and I decided that we wanted to start spending more time outside in our yard, but realized that we had some work to do to make it a space we actually wanted to be. Many of these jobs were literally out of reach,…