Lingerie chest makeover
This is a tiny little dresser – about 18″ wide and only about 12″ deep. I guess it would be called a lingerie dresser or lingerie chest? A “disaster dresser” to begin with. Look at the destroyed top! Missing knobs, chipped drawers – and what you can’t see inside, is that the drawer bottoms are […]
10 DIY Furniture Projects for Beginners
If you’re looking to add some new pieces to your current decor, but don’t have the budget for big-box stores, make your own with these 10 DIY furniture projects for beginners. My formal carpentry training consists of wood shop in grades 7 and 8 – and while that is two years of pretty intensive hands-on […]
50 of the Best Ikea Rast Hacks
Ikea carries a small dresser – just about the size of a large nightstand – called the Rast. It’s an insanely popular product on Pinterest for both the price ($35 US, $49 Cdn) and for the million-and-one ways people have “hacked” it (aka – changed it from boring to BLAM!) I have a craft room […]
Valentine’s Day Decor – Heart Branches
Good morning sunshine! (referring to you and not necessarily the weather as I typically write these posts at night). Have you been taking down your Holiday decorations? Perhaps you’re already done? Maybe you’re planning on being proactive and leaving them up all year in preparation for next year? Don’t laugh – stores start Christmas decorating […]
Holiday Home Tour 2016
I was a little torn in posting this; I LOVE my home. I love it in all it’s messiness and chaos – as far as I’m concerned this is my ‘forever home’… but it’s not to the calibre of the images I see of other bloggers’ homes. At the very least, my photographic skills (while […]
DIY Wood Moose
This is Marty Moose. Marty Mazel Tov Moose because when I asked friends what they thought he was, I got a mixed response of “moose”, “reindeer” and “Hanukkah candle holder”. I don’t care, he’s the moosiest moose I know – Marty Moose. (did you get that? Maybe I’m showing my age?) It started because of […]
Foyer Makeover – Wilmington Tan to Balboa Mist
I have disliked the colour of my foyer (almost) from the day it was painted. I paid an interior designer to come to my home and choose colours for me, and she chose this Wilmington Tan by BM as a compliment to other colours I had in the house – and it was. Her choice […]