Crafts | DIY | Decorating | Renovations
If you follow us on Facebook, you may have noticed that we painted a chalkboard wall in our dining room. I originally thought I wanted to put the chalkboard wall in the kitchen. But after living with it in the dining room for several weeks it is SO PERFECT here. I have to say it was a [...]
Have you ever seen a photo of a perfect-for-you room somewhere online? Have you ever then spent an inordinate amount of time dreaming about said room? Wondering how you could make it your own? Recreate it – or parts of it – in your own home? Photo by House Beautiful via Wallpap’ress That was what [...]
Since it’s finally nice and cool for working outside again, we’re back to tell show you how we built our window boxes for The Curb Appeal Series! I always pictured our little white bungalow with window boxes. In fact the two front windows complete with black shutters just kept whispering “we need some window boxes, [...]
This project totally made us want to say “Never Again”. Just kidding. Sort of. Let’s just say refinishing a dining room table and chairs IN the dining room is a tricky thing! (We don’t have a basement or a garage). Our old pine dining room set was purchased eight years ago from IDOMO in Toronto. [...]
I adore Cinderella pumpkins. Adore. I also have a thing for fabric pumpkins. So this afternoon I thought I’d create a few little beauties to add to our fall decor. Supplies: fabric moss sticks or branches rice polyfill thread, needle, scissors, glue gun Step 1 For each pumpkin you want to make, cut a circle [...]
Lol. Reading the title of this post – you must be beginning to think I am obsessed with monograms. Not so. I am obsessed with typography. *Wink*. I had an old Ikea vase sitting in our hutch that I thought could use some prettying up. Enter my Martha Stewart goodies again. This time I [...]
On Friday I told you all that I finally opened my Annie Sloan Chalk Paint…which meant I started on a project, of course! Last summer, while at a friend’s house, I spotted this discarded blanket box at the end of someone’s driveway amongst some other junk. Mr. {aka} so kindly hauled it home for me. [...]
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