Remember how I originally ordered Sherwin-Williams Urbane Bronze for one of the basement colors but then chickened out? One of my fav blogs, YoungHouseLove, just painted their garage doors Urbane Bronze. I’m pretty sure they copied me. HA, just kidding, but it does look great on their garage doors!! I did end up using the…
Valences
Want some SUPER cheap and easy valences?? We followed these instructions from C.R.A.F.T. After contemplating several different fabrics I went with boring black. Nolan and I couldn’t agree on anything and the patterns that I liked seemed to clash with the white trim plus I was afraid of keeping the pattern straight. The hardest part of…
Playing footsie
I upholstered this footsie field, I mean, footstool recently. Nolan’s great-grandpa made this footstool and over the years it has been reupholstered several times. You can see it’s gone through some wear and tear but the structure is still good and check out them legs! After reupholstering the thing I pass no judgement. At the…
DIY Gallery Wall Shelves Pt 2
Ta da! We have shelves to hang all our mirrored beer/whiskey/schnapps signs! It’s funny what you can see in the reflections in this picture.. Nolan’s head, Nolan’s legs, Nolan’s arm & the door, Sophie’s head, the stairs, hehe. Check out pt 1 of the DIY gallery shelves here. The empty freezer ended up being a nice holding…
DIY Gallery Wall Shelves Pt 1
I’m super excited about the gallery wall shelves I’m making right now! I was inspired by these shelves. Wood, check. Shelf dimensions, check. Gallery wall layout, check. This is the wall you immediately see when you walk down the stairs to the basement. The boards stood in our entry way for about a week. First…
Crafty Copycat
I saw this DIY piece of art on Bower Power and thought, now that’s a DIY project I could do! And I did! I used an old picture we had on our mantle in our MPLS house. I was over it and Nolan never really liked to begin with. I bought it at Kohl’s while he was…
Crafty – Great Grandma’s Recipe
My great grandma lived just a few miles from Nolan and me when we lived in Minneapolis. I was able to visit her a lot; we’d go to the 50’s Grill, play Rummikub or put together a puzzle. She was independent, funny and very observant. She lived in North Minneapolis so the things she observed were, let’s just…
Crafty – Alaska 09 Scrapbook
It took me 4 ½ years, but I’m finally done with the scrapbook of our Alaska trip back in 2009! To be fair, I had completed 90% of the book; I only had the 2 days we spent in Vancouver left. So, this past weekend I finally dug all my supplies out of the hot…
Crafty – Starburst Mirror
Inspired by this post by Crafty Nest I set out to make my very own starburst mirror. Starburst mirrors are kind of a big deal right now, just Google starburst mirror image and look at the variations. I had these small IKEA mirrors left over from the MPLS house. Combine that with some craft sticks…