This post is a sponsored post We have a garden! Three years in this house and this is our first garden in Connecticut. At our previous home in Utah we made garden tables for tomatoes. It was a big fail. The bottom of the tables fell out once the tomato plants got bigger, leaving us with a big pile of dirt. It was a great concept with the intention of keeping animals out of our garden and not eating all the juicy tomatoes. After that experience we were jaded and felt that gardens were a big waste. This is my inner monologue- "I am an avid farmers market goer, I can get garden ... Read More
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Window Boxes and Curb Appeal
Curb Appeal was something our home was lacking when we bought it three years ago. Slowly we have made some minor changes and recently some major changes with new siding. But honestly every time we made a change, no matter if it was pulling out some weeds or adding rocks to our walk-up. It's was an effort that doesn't go un-noticed. Little changes to the exterior go a long way. We were out working on our front yard and I was adding some flowers to our window boxes and a woman walked by and called out "looks great!" It was so nice of her! It really wasn't complete, but her just encouraging the ... Read More
Small Space Living Series- 110 sq ft Kitchen Tour
I am excited to have a guest feature today! Morgan from @thewhitefarmhouse is inviting us into her kitchen. I am including it as a Small Space Living "Mini" Feature. The kitchen is about 110 square feet and her entire home is 1800 square feet. It really is just an amazing before and after! They also made great use of the space by adding in a cabinet to her dining room to use as pantry storage. She totally makes it work. They are a family of four living in Michigan in this charming house. Let's go see inside... (I linked all the sources at the end of the post). The kitchen ... Read More
Friday Favorites starts with Shed Magic Light Trick and STRAWBERRY TRICK
I am so thankful for your encouraging words on the shed makeover. Just by taking the time to appreciate not the design, but notice the hard work that goes into something is really a gift so many of you posses. You know it makes you a DAY-MAKER! And if there is something to strive to be it is that! My entire blog and life is about NOT striving for perfection. It is about doing it better than before. If you are working on a project and you have done all the research, created a design board, found an inspiration picture. Go for it! Don't over think it. And most importantly don't compare or ... Read More
Five Must-Do’s to your Home for Summer!
Do you make seasonal changes to your home? Making seasonal changes does not mean bringing up a tote from the basement of seasonal decor. It actually could mean the opposite, especially in the summer. Taking things away. For me it does. I put away all the heavy throw blankets and the fuzzy wool pillows (that I LOVE so much). Spring is still chilly for us in Connecticut, so the real changes come about June. I have heard of people removing rugs in the summer for a more drastic change. Besides putting away the heavy throws and wool pillows I move things around, just changing art from one nail ... Read More
Small Space Living Series- Organizing Hacks in Our 1200 Square Foot Home
Today I am finally sharing our home for the Small SpaceLiving Series! All of our organizing hacks and ideas. I took a video of all of the places we keep our stuff, so make sure to watch that at the end of this post so you can see our basement too...where the laundry is. I am warning you now, it is basic. I really don't want to do anything fancy to it, my goal would actually have it be almost empty besides the necessities and extra water! We try our hardest to keep it clean and organized because if it isn't it takes up space in my brain. Anyone else like that? Let's get right after it and ... Read More
Friday Favorites starts with Father’s Day Gift Guide
Little late on my Friday Favorites. I made a commitment to myself to do a Friday Favorites every week for a year and I do not want to miss one. There are some fun things I want to share with you for this week. I had someone do a hand drawing of our new exterior! I LOVE it. Such a wonderful unique gift. A custom painting of the exterior of your home would make a great Father's Day Gift! Something very unique and thoughtful. Or of your childhood home for your Father. I had a couple days with low energy and Finn felt a little harder than normal (2 year olds!) I decided to just let it go ... Read More
How we Clean our Outdoor Cushions, Indoor Cushions and Rugs
"How do you clean your outdoor cushions?" "Do your kids actually sit there to eat?" "How do you keep your light sofa cushions clean?" These are all questions I get daily or especially when I post a photo of our light colored sofas. I am here to help a sister out! Share what we use or do to try to keep everything looking clean and if they do have the accidents then how to get that said accident to disappear! Our outdoor sofa is a light fabric, both our indoor sofa's are light too and our banquette around our dining table. Yes, in person they are light and free from ... Read More
Painted Front Door Tips and our new PINK Door
I got an itch or a craving to paint our front door pink! Well actually it has been itching for a long time. But just recently we got new siding and the question came up if we wanted our black shutters put back up on our house. This might not seem like it relates to the front door but it does. I PERSONALLY like the front door and shutters to be the same color. We once had a navy door and navy shutters. Well, if I back up to the start when we bought this house the front door was hunter green with hunter green shutters. We painted the front door the navy and spray painted the shutters. Then ... Read More
Friday Favorites starts with Deck String Lights and Summer Essentials
Friday Favorites is a siding update along with some other favorite things! We have been busy putting things back together after our new Cedar Impressions were installed! The big question was if we should put our black vinyl shutters back up. Funny thing is I had not even thought about it until the installers asked me, rather than just putting it all back how it was. It is ALWAYS good to question (that coming from a born "Questioner"). So then I thought hmmmm, maybe I shouldn't! After much deliberation and help from a lot of you, we went with no shutters in the back! I will share tomorrow what ... Read More