Our 10 Favorite Head Planters
I’m so in love with head planters lately, I seriously can’t get enough of them.
I ♥ 3M
I love 3M Command hooks! Who doesn’t though, honestly. They’re probably the most useful tool/accessory to be developed this decade – second to Bread Gloves, certainly. (more…)
My kitchen gave me tennis elbow: How to refinish kitchen cabinets
It has been quite a week. My last week of ‘vacation’ and I’ve been going 9+ hrs solid each day on the bloody kitchen, but we’re seeing some progress finally.
Let me start by saying, if you are ever contemplating whether to buy new kitchen cabinets or refinish your old ones, think very hard on it before you commit. Because after this week, I’m wishing we just spent the rest of our savings and bought a whole new kitchen. As much as I researched the process for painting kitchen cabinets, I couldn’t have imagined how laborious, tedious, boring, and strenuous the whole process would be. (more…)
Tearing Down the House!
We’re tearing down the house! Okay, not the whole house, but there has been some serious crow-bar action going on in the kitchen this week it feels like we’re demolishing the hole place.
J has been working away on the kitchen renovation by removing the top cupboards that I have been DYING to remove since we got into the place. Here are the before shots (notice how dark the kitchen is with the upper cabinets casting shadows everywhere)… (more…)
Powder Room ‘During’
So I mentioned in a previous post that I may have gone a little crazy on the powder room renovation over the weekend. Basically I wanted to get rid of all the very, very old hardware and cabinets, and rather than waiting to get the proper tools from the garage, I pretty well ripped everything out that wasn’t welded in place, aside from toilet and sink. It felt good, but I then realized how much more work I may have made for myself in the process. (more…)