So someone needs to explain to me how something meant to be helpful can become such a PITA? Let me take a step back and just say, we LOVE, LOVE, LOVE our Thule. Seriously. We love it! This isn’t even some advertisement for them. They have no clue who I am, other than some weirdo adoring fan […]
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 […]
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 […]
Camouflage a Chicken Waterer
I love having chickens! The fresh eggs, the fact that they waste almost nothing, the cute little noises they make (we don’t have any roosters) while they’re just chickening around. Our Salmon Favorelles even chest bump. Funniest thing ever. One of the things I don’t like is that none of my chicken “equipment” is pretty…just […]
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, […]