Life is good.

So, I'm all about this new Minwax product, Poly Shades. It's taken my furniture redo/revamp projects to a whole new and easier level...

You might have thought the house painting project and other things have been going pretty slowly recently.  Well, there's a reason....

While I'm fixing up the bedroom, I've been thinking about the kitchen. When we moved in, it looked like this: LOTS of potential...

As I mentioned in my last post , we're redoing the bedroom. I'm painting the walls black pepper by Benjamin Moore. I was perusing ...

I've stuggled with the bedroom ever since moving in. The room isn't huge, but it isn't tiny either. It has one wall taken up wit...

The front by the garage before... And the same spot now... We are almost done!!!

Not a ton to report on the house painting front. It's about 80% done, and will likely get 100% done the weekend of September 7. But... b...

The importance of prep in this project is key. Specifically: caulking. All the cracks get sealed. Here's a series of photos to show it p...

The painting is going well. I'm almost done with the front side by the dining room and living room windows, and the stairwell has coat ...

TOTALLY not expecting to buy anything, I went with a coworker yesterday to the salvage/recycling place. She'd never been, so I gave her ...