I LOVE the city we live in! I never in a million years would have thought that when we moved here roughly 12 years ago. Honestly, it was just a fluke. We liked that it was a small college town. That was about it. But I have to say, this small college town has it […]
Dining Room Table Update
I bought this sweet vintage dining room table on Craigslist about a year ago. This poor thing has languished in my dining room unfinished forever (sometimes a year is forever.) I finally got around to working on it and somewhere mid-redo, decided I didn’t really want a dining room. I mean we have one, but […]
Sweet L’il Table Makeover
My super sweet neighbor gave us this table that she and her girls used as a craft table when those now teenagers were little. It has been well loved. You can see where crafts have been constructed with paint and glue and glitter. And did I mention love? Oh, and this woman. She is all […]
Installing Grab Bars in the Shower
We were able to get Rob’s parents to move down here to North Texas from Oklahoma several years ago. As they are aging, we want to help keep them as independent as possible and in their own home for as long as we can. It’s just best for everyone, all the way around. Enter The […]
Dining Room Table Turned Coffee Table
We ended up bringing this dining room table home with us after a trip out to the family farm in Oklahoma several years back. It had been Rob’s grandmother’s table when she was alive. Now I don’t want you to get the idea that this was a family heirloom. She was a different bird of sorts and preferred […]
Finishing the Wood Floors
Ok, so I’m not re-finishing the floors, I’m just cleaning them up and making them presentable. We recently found out that not only does our dining room need foundation work, the whole stinking house does! To the tune of 55 piers. Yes, fifty-five! So after all that hard work getting the paint off the living […]
Remove Decade-Old Paint From Hardwood Floors
So here we are… In my last post I showed how we had just pulled up the carpet in the living room to find tons of overspray. And glue. And gunk. Here’s how I tackled it. Literally about 6 inches by 6 inches at a time. Time-consuming yes, but worth it in the end. These were all […]
Get Rid of That Gross Carpet!
Seriously, it’s about time. I have hinted around about ripping this up for over a year (so basically as long as we’ve lived in this house.) The previous owner told us on one of our many walk-thrus before we bought the house, just how much she loved carpet — she just didn’t like hardwood (horror!) Thankfully, […]