I learned from watching Devine Design with Candice Olson in the early 2000s that lighting is a really important consideration when designing a room. When we redid our first kitchen, we gave under cabinet lighting a shot. I’m hooked. When building our current house, we did a few lighting upgrades, as well. We again paid… Read More

It’s been awhile!! I’ve been in a blogging slump for sure. Part of it was the craziness of finishing off the school year, and part of it was feeling uninspired to blog. But! The inspiration is returning. I’ve been able to catch up on some of my favorite blogs in the week and a half… Read More

I think I’m late to the party, but its time for a little spring house work! Last year, we worked on decluttering. If that’s what you need to do, check out this post and this one. Of course, this is a never ending project as things just keep coming into the house (new toys and… Read More

*This post contains affiliate links and I will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on my links. We went to Target the other night, and there was so much good stuff! I thought it was time for another post about the great deals you can get at Target. Here’s another post with… Read More

I’m back! Its been a busy couple of weeks at school with the end of the trimester and lots of sick students right before finals! A few weeks ago, I shared the first floor of our house with you to show you how installing hardwoods will affect a lot of other things. One of those… Read More

Its been a year since my first post! I recently paid for another year of keeping this thing running, so here’s to another year! Blogging is something I thought about for a long time, and it has felt really good to jump in and go for it. That’s not typically my personality. I’m probably… Read More

Last week we talked about how installing wood floors in our house will affect so many other things. One of those is our fireplace. So today I thought I would share some fireplace inspiration. We really have to be thinking about all of these things before we start the floor project! Above: I like that… Read More

I figured it was about time to introduce you to the main part of our house. You’ve seen pretty much everything else, but I haven’t really shared our main living space. This is where we are going to be concentrating our efforts this year (not sure when we will start, yet), as we plan to… Read More

Back in April, shortly after I started the blog, I gave you a preview of some things we would be working on.  Since then we have completed the mudroom and moved our playroom to the basement. The main level bathroom and the master bedroom haven’t been touched, but we did check some things off of… Read More