I’ve recognized a trend where personalized wall art has really become a decorating MUST in a lot households. I think it’s pretty cool to visit someones house and find their walls adorned with unique pieces of art that are not only visually pleasing, but art that shows something about who they are or what’s important […]
10 DIY Vinyl Stencil Projects
If you haven’t figured it out by now Matt and I LOVE to make over just about anything we can get our hands on! Over the past year we have been lucky enough to have created one of a kind custom pieces. Most of these pieces have been enhanced by the use of a vinyl […]
DIY Kitchen Pantry
When I last left you all we had to go back to the drawing board with our kitchen pantry design. I couldn’t bring myself to do another drawing, so Matt whipped us up a quick kitchen pantry in Adobe Illustrator. We got right to it and started building our kitchen pantry using our Kreg Jig […]
Tulip Door Wreath
With all the door wreaths I have made in the past year you would think that I have one for every season. And I do, well almost. For some reason I never made a door wreath for spring. I have no clue how that one slipped through but it did. I have been wracking my […]
How to use a Kreg Jig Jr
We are in the process of building some cabinets for our pantry renovation, so it’s a great time to write a tutorial on how we use the Kreg Jig Jr. It’s a reliable and easy to use tool for making strong and dependable joints for all of your woodworking projects. Let’s take a look […]
Rolling Storage from Up-cycled Wine Crates
Every year our neighborhood has an annual yard sale. Being the typical hoarders DIYers that Matt and I are, instead of participating by selling we participate by buying! I’m not sure if you remember me talking about neighbor Dave back around Halloween, but he loves wine. So much that he has lot’s of wine crates! […]
Reverse Stenciled Bird Coffee Table
When my family was dealing with my grandparents estate there was a lot of stuff to deal with! They had a good sized home that was full of furniture. A lot of the furniture ended up staying in the family including my grandfather’s poker table and an oak queen-anne drop leaf coffee table. My grandfather was […]
Giving New Life to an old Marquee Letter
Often late at night while Matt sleeps I search CraigsList for my latest find. One night I stumbled upon an ad that had at least 50 old marquee letters. The seller had them all laid out in his yard spelling out different words and the price could not be beat. So I do what I […]