Indoor Projects
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How to Sell Your House Fast and Cheap
What I Did to Sell Our House in 2 Days Use these tips to get your house ready to sell whether you’re selling it by owner or using a Realtor. Just a little time, effort, and sometimes money will get your house looking its best. I spent 9.5 years improving, beautifying, and tweaking our home. I know our house may be more updated, renovated, or ‘prettier’ than your house. But I believe these tips will help any house look better and sell faster. Heck, you may even want to follow these tips even if you aren’t planning to sell. I know I loved how our house looked after I staged…
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Our Ranch Revival Introduction and Before Tour
Meet Our New Home and See Our Plans My husband and I recently bought a new home and we’ve got big plans for it over the next few years. Check out the pictures as it looked before we moved in! Exterior Our initial plans for the outside of our home include: painting re-sodding new windows replace awnings with Bermuda shutters or metal awnings clean and re-stain front walkway create parking pad at street in front yard clean up landscaping maybe add decorative siding, shakes, or something to gable above porch
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How to Create Workshop on a Budget
Budget-Friendly Garage Workshop Makeover Painting and reusing old cabinets is a great way to create a defined workshop area in a garage. And adding casters to an old table saves money and gives you a portable workbench! Materials milk paint (ballet pink)* paint sprayer (my most favorite one ever!)* scrap cardboard sandpaper respirator 3 inch screws drill/driver casters (30% off right now!)* 3/8″ and 3/4″ drill bits 2-part epoxy glue like this Clean and Paint Depending on how old your cabinets are and where they’ve been stored, they may require some repairs before they can be painted! Mine needed a good cleaning to get rid of the mildew (just 50/50…
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How To Update Your Master Bedroom Now
Easy Ways to Refresh Your Bedroom During Quarantine Using things you already have around the house, quickly update your master bedroom to bring calm and peace during this uncertain time. I started working on ‘refreshing’ our master bedroom back in April of last year when we were in the middle of adding a master bathroom onto our house. Because there was some drywall work that needed to be painted on the bedroom side anyway, I thought, “Let’s just go ahead and paint the whole darn thing.” Which lead to changing out our bed, bedding, and simplifying our decor too!
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How to Install a Garbage Disposal
Replace Your Own Leaking Disposer Changing out a leaking garbage disposal for a new one is an easy DIY job you can tackle in no time after watching this video! What You Need garbage disposer* screwdriver plumber’s putty* You’ll also need patience and a rag or towel! Working with your hands over your head, at least for me, requires a lot more patience because it makes you tire faster! Plus working in a tiny cabinet is frustrating, so again, patience! The towel is to protect your back while laying in the cabinet and/or to soak up any water that may drip after removing the old disposal! Disconnect The first step…
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Inexpensive Window Treatments
Warm up White Walls with Window Treatments If you don’t like how blah white walls can look, dress up them with wood-tone window treatments to warm up the whole room! Add Wood Tones I haven’t been loving our dining room lately. It feels so incomplete and blah! But after staring long enough, I realized it’s too white! Ha! We have one window in there which I love. But it has white curtains on white(ish) walls and white faux wood blinds.
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How To Remove Latex Paint
Removing paint from your jeans All you need are 2 things you probably already have laying around your house to remove dried latex paint from your clothes! Materials rubbing alcohol* scrub brush* old toothbrush See, that’s it! I hate changing into clothes to do a project and prefer to wear whatever I already have on, so this is not my first pair of pants that have been ‘decorated’ with paint before! And most certainly won’t be the last, no matter how careful I am!
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DIY Live Edge Floating Shelves
How To Build Shelves with a Live Edge How to select boards, prep, seal and hang rough sewn wood for decorative shelves in a bathroom. Materials cedar boards 3 inch corner brackets* sander polyurethane* spray paint* (stain bronze) If you’ve never seen the episode from Today’s Homeowner where Dad and I have an old cedar tree cut into 1 inch planks, here’s the link to watch it now! We had to tear down the tree from my front yard because it was all over the roof and a hazard to the safety of my house. After it sat behind my garage for about a year, we drove it to a…
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Modern Master Bathroom Reveal
Small Bathroom Addition, Big Style We recently completed our master bathroom addition. Here’s how I packed a big style punch into the small space. Accent Wall I’ll start with the most obvious part of the bathroom, the tile accent wall. It’s the first thing you notice when you walk in and where we spent the most money, besides the framing and roof.
