If your home is anything like ours your builder took extra time to pick out attractive mirrors for your bathrooms, hehe. Kidding of course we all know builders do what they can for the bare minimum. Case in point our builder grade mirror glued to the wall! I decided I wanted to give one of […]
Weekend Deck Update
The night before we closed on our home something horrible happened. A hail storm. Not just any hail storm, the worst my town had ever seen. Hail was between between baseball and softball size. Some were lucky to only receive golf ball sized hail. Can you imagine? Yeah neither could we. And I still cannot […]
DIY Garden Living Wall Planters
A couple of years ago Matt came home from work with a treasure trove of goodies he found in a dumpster. At first I thought he was nuts. What in the world were we going to do with 12 old metal drawers that were clearly used in someones workshop? I ended up using a couple […]
The Easiest Way to Paint Furniture
Over the past few years, Jacque and I have painted a decent number of furniture pieces, ranging from dressers to bar stools, to even chandeliers. I really enjoy giving new life to outdated pieces, but the painting phase of the transformation has always been my least favorite part of the process, mostly because of the […]
Master Bathroom Makeover #UpToTheTest
I can’t believe it our bathroom is finally completed, well for now anyway. It no longer even remotely resembles anything from the previous owners. Not that there was anything wrong with their taste, it just wasn’t, well, our taste. This what the bathroom looked like when we did the final walk-thru before closing. See that […]
How to Paint Like a Pro
Here at the DIY village, we’re no strangers to paint! As a matter of fact, in our current home, we’ve added at least a coat of paint to every single room! Along the way, I’ve tried different rollers and cut in tools that claimed to make painting less of a hassle, most of which […]
Adirondack Chair Update #UpToTheTest
A few months ago I shared the makeover I did on the Adirondack chair using Olympic Maximum Stain. **Disclosure: A huge thanks to Good Housekeeping and Olympic Paint and Stain for sponsoring this post and the upcoming projects! Although we were compensated for this project, the words and opinions found here within are always our […]
DIY Beadboard Picture Frame Tutorial
I have been spying these beadboard picture frames for quite some time and have always hesitated buying them After some thought I decided that our half bath needed picture frames! Beadboard picture frames to be exact. I set out on the journey to figure out how to make them myself for a FRACTION of the cost of […]