• DIY Framed Display for Antiques
    Episodes,  Indoor Projects

    DIY Framed Display for Antiques

    About a year ago, I hung some old wooden utensils I got from my grandmother’s house on the wall in my dining room. And I never quite liked the way it looked. Plus I’ve since painted the walls and added trim to my cased openings. So it was time to spice up the wall decor with this DIY Framed Display! Don’t forget to watch the video above to help fill in the blanks I don’t cover below! Here are the materials I used: I already had my design and measurements figured out in my head, so the first step was to notch the corners of my plywood. Each inset is…

  • DIY White Porch Rail Planter Box
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    Planter Box for Porch Rails

    Beginner DIY Porch Planter Box If you’ve been following my blog the past few weeks, you might be picking up on how much I love flowers and plants. Especially this time of year when everything is in full bloom!? So it shouldn’t come as a shock that I wanted to build something to hold MORE flowers! I built a planter box like this a few years ago for Black+Decker’s blog, but this time I wanted to improve upon it. Materials This is definitely a beginner DIY project, so gather your materials and get to work! Cut Everything to Size You’ll see in the video above, I used my miter saw…

  • How To Grow Green Grass Video
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    How To Help Your Grass Grow This Summer

    I get asked a lot how my grass is so green and looks so good. I always tells them it’s because we mow once a week. (OK, by ‘we’ I really mean my husband!) Not something most people want to hear because who has time to mow every week?! But, honestly, it makes a difference. I was lucky in that while renovating my house (back in 2012), we also tore out A BUNCH of overgrown bushes and started fresh with the landscaping, including brand new sod. And ever since then it’s been mowed once a week. The reason it works is you’re only cutting 1/3 of the grass blade at…

  • Completed Craftsman Trim on Cased Opening
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    Adding Trim to a Cased Opening

    This project has been a long time coming! One of my long-term plans for my house is to add molding and trim where it hasn’t been since the house was built in the 40s. I started by designing and adding trim around the windows in my living room. Then when I started turning our guest room into a nursery for our first baby, I added the same style trim in there too. But now with baby boy’s nursery behind me, I’m getting back around to my dining room to-do list I posted about last year. A year since I wrote out my to-do list where I said I wasn’t going…

  • DIY Built-In Window Seat with Cushion
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    Built-In Window Seat

    Ever since I renovated my house back in 2012 and added closets in the 3rd bedroom, I’ve wanted to build a seat under the window between them. So once we found out we were expecting a baby boy and decided that room would be his nursery (I mean it was already blue!), it was time to build that seat! I recruited my dad to help me out and the rest is history…err…in the video above.

  • Completed DIY Tufted Headboard King-Sized Bed
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    DIY Tufted Headboard

    How to Make Your Own Tufted Headboard Tufted and upholstered headboards aren’t the new kids on the block by any means, but it does seem like they’ve risen in popularity the past few years. So creating one has been on my to-do list so I can share with all of you how to make one yourself and save big money on a store-bought one! Inspiration I’ve had this post from Artsy Chicks Rule on creating an ottoman from a coffee table saved for awhile, thinking it’d be a great project for the table in my sunroom. (Maybe one day I’ll get around to doing it…) Then I remembered Nancy had…

  • DIY Rolling Toy Cart Completed
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    DIY Rolling Toy Cart

    HAPPY NEW YEAR! Not only is it a new year, but it’s a new month. So I have a new project video for you! Since organization and storage always seem to be the rage at the start of a new year, I thought I’d join in with a storage cart for toys and books! It’s a simple design requiring minimal tools, so I’d say it’s an easy to moderate DIY build. To start, here are the materials we used: To avoid having to borrow a table saw, we had our plywood ripped to size at the home center when we were picking up our materials. The sides are 12″ wide…

  • Holiday Bar Cart Upcycle Completed
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    Bar Cart Makeover

    I mentioned in my last episode that I was working on cleaning out my furniture hoards from the garage. The first project of, hopefully, many to come was to take this water-damaged cart pulled from a trash pile almost 2 years ago and upcycle it into a fun, usable bar cart. A lot of times the steps to completing a furniture makeover or upcycle can be the same-prep, paint, and seal. But you can change it up by using different materials to complete those steps and keep it fun! For this particular piece of furniture, the frame of the cart was in good shape. The top was the only thing…