We moved from Utah to Connecticut in January of 2015. The home is a Cape Cod style home that was built in the 1950's. Needless to say the bathrooms needed a major remodel. I love the charm of this built in armoire and it adds so much storage that we need. This is the before and after. I couldn't even handle the before for the few short weeks we had it. It is actually the main bathroom on the main level. It didn't to function a lot better than it was! The previous sink was a pedestal. The bathroom was small but could handle a larger vanity. I really wanted a piece of furniture to go ... Read More
DIY String Art
I have been admiring this string art projects for some time now. They looked overwhelming and a little hard to tackle. I needed something large for this wall and thought I would give the string art project a try, so glad I did! I got this frame for a great price, it used to have a mirror in it that broke. I painted the board that was already in it white. Then started my string art project. Trace whatever shape you want onto a piece of paper. I used wrapping paper so it was large enough. Then trace it with pencil onto the board. I found these aluminum tacks at a local ... Read More
Pillow Talk
Pillows can make the biggest difference to a room. If you are falling out of love with your sofa, rethink your pillows. My mother-in-law text me soon after seeing something I posted on Instagram saying she wanted to lighten up her family room. She has a lot of reds, browns and darker colors. I told her I would put a design board together for her with links on where to get them. But under no circumstances do not rush to the nearest Home Goods store and grab whatever you see. Have a plan and ideas of a look you want to achieve, this is what I sent her. She has a 10'x10' brown ... Read More
Connecticut Kitchen Remodel
Are you ready for picture overload? I am pretty excited about this new kitchen remodel! But first you need to see these before pictures of what it looked like right before we moved in January this year. You can also read about the remodel process HERE and where we have come from the past five weeks on this six week design challenge. It was pretty depressing being in that old kitchen. It felt dark, dated and dirty. I was already going through a big adjustment moving 2,000 miles away from family and friends that I love so much, so this kitchen didn't help ... Read More
Paleo Chicken Pot Pie
I used to make a pot pie with canned cream of chicken...(GASP!) and I used Marie Calendar pie crust. It was a BIG hit. I have made it for over 20 people or given out the recipe. I would make it for friends and neighbors who had just had babies and make it often for my family. I started to eat strict Paleo about three years ago. I needed to come up with another way to make pot pie since my family loved it. They do love this Paleo version just as much. I normally triple this and freeze the filling to have on hand to give to someone or ... Read More
Week 5- Kitchen Remodel
BIG, HUGE, EXCITING week over here! Progress has been made in our kitchen remodel. Cabinet doors were taken down. The existing cabinets were re-faced with actual wood that was cut to fit my cabinets. I had THIS company in CT do it, you can search cabinet re-facing in your area. If you go the route of painting, my favorite white paint from Benjamin Moore is Mountain Peek White. You can read more about the counter tops and the process in our kitchen HERE. One of my favorite parts was the wood piece in between the cabinets that was blocking some of the window was taken down, so much ... Read More
Week 4- Kitchen Remodel
I am still in love with my new tile! You can read what has been done the past week on Week 3 I found a runner for under my sink and dishwasher at Home Goods. I love how it ties in the gold tones that I am mixing in. We got our new appliances this past week! You can see my new dishwasher, with my ugly old cabinets. It could not had been better timing, my old one stopped working a day before we got our new one. Cabinet re-facing has started. They have taken off all the doors and then they will wrap the existing cabinets in real wood to match the doors, I will also be getting new ... Read More
Week 3- Kitchen Remodel
Tiny houses stress me out! Especially when we attempt to move things around. Even getting the fridge out the door was an ordeal. The fridge doors were taken off and the interior door and still a lot of noise and cursing in Spanish. I had to go to my room and close the door. They did get it out and it is sitting on our deck plugged in while we wait for the new one to arrive on Thursday. The girls were too cold to sit on the deck on demo day, so they sat on the lovely linoleum floor eating their cereal and spilled it twice of coarse. I should have just left it since they were ripping it ... Read More
Striped Stairs
These stairs used to be a death trap, they are steep and slippery. I did love the look of the wood stairs and was hesitant on ordering a runner. I have to say that I love these stairs even MORE with the bold stripe. I ordered two 2.8"x8' runners. Just measure the front of one step and the actual part you step on and multiple that by how many stairs you have. My runners are from Dash and Albert it did take me some searching to figure out what one I wanted, there are so many great options, but my friend Randi gave me the thumbs up. They came in right ... Read More
Week 2- Kitchen Remodel
Get ready for a good looking picture... ok I tricked you it is Gross! But I have to share so you can see how far we have come on this 6 Week One Room Challenge. It is fun to see how far everyone else is coming and their inspiration. Notice the forest green door. The bad chair molding that cuts the already small room in half, in most cases chair rail molding needs to go, ok ALL cases. The tiny unusable built in corner cabinet. Bad yellow walls, that don't do anything for the cream appliances or for anyone. There were very old and very ugly roller shades on all the windows. I ... Read More
