This week WallQuotes is hooking up TWO of you with a little wall makeover. In addition to $150 towards anything on their site, you’ll also get $50 to your favorite paint store. So while you’re adding some new color to your space, you can also add some personality with WallQuotes’ easy-to-apply vinyl decals. They’ve got pre-designed quotes for a range of rooms and occasions, plus you can design your own. We also love their graphic skylines, monograms, and wrought-iron inspired headboards. Please use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter (it might take a second to load, but it should eventually pop up below this paragraph). This giveaways is available worldwide! And for anyone who misses
How To Tear Down An Old Ceiling
Oh what a feeling… dancing on the ceiling. Which is much easier when your ceiling is on the floor. But let’s rewind to a time when our sunroom ceiling was more ceiling-like. We’ve mentioned we wanted to try vaulting the ceiling in here to make it feel even more open (here’s a link to some of our inspiration). We’ve never vaulted a ceiling before but we figured this was a pretty low-risk spot to finally give it a go. We realized from the start that we might need to hire a pro for part of the job since structural ramifications like “the roof could cave in” is one of those failing answers to our “what’s
Framing Out And Caulking Exterior Doorways
As exciting as it was to remove the sliding glass doors from our sunroom, it left a very unexciting task (by comparison) next on our list. Removing all of the metal door frames left lots of exposed raw wood along the edges of each opening. Not only did it look unpolished, but it was recipe for rot (that recipe being rain water + raw wood = rot). So we jumped on this to-do right away. When we got our house painted, this room had a lot of rot repair on the outside so we’re hyper-vigilant to the issue right now. So instead of filling those areas with wood, I splurged on PVC (i.e. plastic) since
A Cute Play Kitchen With Light-Up Burners
Clara has had her play kitchen for over a year and a half and she still plays with it nearly everyday, which is practically a toy miracle considering how quickly other items are dismissed. So play kitchens have a special place in our hearts. And this one is extra special because, well, Casey and Phil had a ton of fun making their own – and brought lots of new ideas to the table. They don’t have a blog, but they outlined their process here for you guys: Much like you guys, my husband Phil and I decided to build our daughter Zoey a play kitchen for Christmas. I sketched it out to mimic our kitchen
Fab Freebie: Raise Your Glass
Who’d like $1,000 worth of new tile? Any takers? Hope so, because GlassTileStore.com is gonna make it happen for one of you this week. They’ve got a huge selection of tiles in a huge range of styles, including stone and metal ones too. And if you’re wary of buying tile online, they got you covered. You can sample five products for just $5 and once you’ve made your selection, everything ships free and fast. Plus there’s a no questions asked return policy that’s good for a full year. So is that a new backsplash in your future that I smell? Please use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter (it might take a second to load,
Converting A Sunroom Into A Back Porch
Sherry and I were excited when we first laid eyes on our house’s sunroom. We were actually grateful for the barely budge-able glass sliders and the damp carpet because the sellers positioned this house as a real fixer upper, and we knew the raw state of this room was one of the things that put it within our price range. When it came to brainstorming what we thought we could do with it, I had deja vu for our first sunroom, which we made over with some floor & ceiling paint, sheer curtains and some cozy furniture. My mind used that to fill in the blanks as to what this new sunroom could become. And
Our Family Vacation In Destin, Florida
For those who requested more info about our recent family vacation, here it goes (and you can check out all of our past road trip and vacation posts here). We decided to take our week-long summer vacation in Destin, Florida this year. Since my family wasn’t doing a beach week like usual, and we were already going to be in Atlanta for the Haven conference, it felt like a no brainer to accept the Bowers’ invite to join them for week on the Florida panhandle. Katie Bower’s husband Jeremy did the hard work of finding a house to rent for the week (finger snaps for him, everybody). Since their extended family rents frequently in the
Feeling Selfie-ish
When we posted this Instagram shot last month we alluded to the fact that it wasn’t our ordinary, everday snapshot (our caption revealed that both of us had to put on make-up for it). That’s because we took that shot while on the set of a photoshoot for Richmond Magazine’s Best & Worst issue. This annual collection of reader-voted favorites includes award categories that range from normal (Best New Restaurant) to trendy / weird / random (TV Anchor Who Never Ages). How did we make the list? Best Local Instagram Feed, y’all! We couldn’t believe it when they called us. I mean seriously, we were like “are you sure that’s us?” You can read the
Gratitude With Gusto
It’s time for our once-a-month pause to shout out how grateful we are to the sponsors who help to make all of our other posts possible. So feel free to check out some summery blue & green things that caught our eye this month (and peruse our usual round-up of discounts at the bottom of the post). The cool color scheme of this Mykonos stencil from Royal Design Studio. WallQuotes‘ $250 “Teachers Rock” sweeps to help enhance a classroom. This green “3D” indoor-outdoor rug from Shades of Light that starts at $69. The Tile Shop‘s mixing of glass tiles in this bathroom spotted on their Pinterest page. This hand-painted-looking pillow from Joss & Main. Samples
How To Stain And Seal A Deck
You know that part in a movie where the dorky girl rips off her glasses and throws on some makeup and suddenly she’s a bombshell? Well, our deck has already tossed its spectacles aside (i.e. we stripped off the old finish) and now it’s time for some lipstick (i.e. stain). We’re not exactly aiming for bombshell status here, but we’d settle for – I dunno – sexy librarian? I think I’m getting lost in my own analogy. The gist is that with our deck boards cleaned, we could finally apply a new protective finish. After some discussion, we decided to use a semi-transparent stain. Both of us prefer that look over something completely solid, but
Fab Freebie: Insta-nt Attraction
Hear ye, hear ye, lovers of organization and instagramization. This week THREE of you are getting a couple of picture perfect prizes (bad pun intended). The first comes from StickyGram, who specializes in turning your Instgrams into charming little magnets. Each winner will be getting five sheets of nine different magnets (for a total of 45) that you can tear off and use however you’d like. They also make great gifts. My sister included a StickyGram sheet in each of the Mother’s Day cards that she sent out this year and they were a huge hit. But if you win 45 Insta-magnets, wouldn’t it be great to have a fun place to stick them? That’s
A Kids Bedroom With Map Wallpaper & Bunk Beds
…in his bedroom. Well, most of it. Here’s Emma’s hilarious letter about the makeover they turned out for their son’s room: We moved in to this three-storey 1876 “brownstone” (sidebar: it is neither made of brownstone nor located in New York City) three years ago – we’re in Ontario, Canada. We’ve been working our way through the house converting what was four separate apartments back into a single home. This bedroom is up on the third floor and it belongs to our 5-yr old son, Angus. The ‘Before’ photos were taken when we first looked at the house and, at the time, this bedroom was the living room of a medical student at the University
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