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 […]
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After making my kids offset built-in bunk beds last year, I started thinking how nice it might be to have some built-in storage in our master bedroom. Our closet isn’t too big, so I really wanted to build something that could store a lot of the stuff I’d rather not keep in our closet anymore
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I recently finished making offset built-in bunk beds for Lucy and Jack. The room they share isn’t huge, so I was hoping to pack as much storage into the bunk beds as possible. One of my goals was to eliminate the need for dressers so that they could have more space to play. Offset Bunk
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I jumped into 2019 with big plans to build lots of furniture. About midway through the year, as I was tripping over bikes and hunting for misplaced tools, I put the furniture-building on hold. I desperately needed to reorganize my garage workshop before I could continue. Check out the chaotic before: Woodworking was never a
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It’s pretty obvious that I love a good room update—tearing down walls, covering new ones in floor-to-ceiling tile, replacing light fixtures, etc. But improving a space doesn’t always involve days and weeks of manual labor, as was the case with our living room.
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It is done! The small bathroom that our kids share is renovated and finally back in use! This bathroom renovation was one DIY project after another, and I’ve got plenty of tutorials planned over the next several months. Today, however, I just want to share a few before and after shots. So . . .
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Last month you saw the first part of our Stair Update, where we said goodbye to dirty carpeted stairs and hello to white oak stairs with white risers. Today I want to show you the final step to updating our stairs–adding a Dash and Albert stair runner. The Dash & Albert diamond rug is something
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When James and Colin were fairly young we moved them into the same bedroom so that we could convert our third bedroom into a “playroom.” That was fun for awhile, but it seemed to always be a complete disaster and I noticed that the majority of what they were doing in the playroom was drawing,
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This simple bathroom vanity was my first DIY “furniture” project. It isn’t too complicated of a piece–basically a box with a few dividers and easy-to-build shaker style doors–definitely a feasible starter project. The Process: After browsing through tons of images of bathroom vanities, I found this one on Ana White’s DIY furniture website that I
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Jim and I spent quite a bit of time house-hunting before finally buying the home we live in now. As we searched I always seemed to be drawn to the houses that needed a little bit of “help,” and the one we ended up buying (and live in now) was no different. When we looked at
