Work-Out Closet
03-19-2013
My time’s been fairly limited here lately but I did have enough time to squeeze in two small projects. What was once a room setup with our treadmill has now turned into Tucker’s nursery. We relocated the treadmill perfectly into one of the three closets in our home office. It’s a pretty sweet set-up because you can fold it up…
Tucker’s Room
12-09-2012
There’s still some finishing touches needed but when Tucker finally comes home this will be how his room looks when he arrives. These pictures didn’t turn out too well….so at some point we’ll need to take some better ones.
Turn Style Legs Table
12-04-2012
Several weeks ago I had the privilege of building my first table with removable legs for some friends. It was also the first table that I built with turn-stye legs (except for the table that I used retrofitted bedposts as legs). Unfortunately, I was in a hurry to get this one built so I didn’t document as well as I would have…
Pallet Wall Construction
10-28-2012
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then the Bowers from http://www.bowerpowerblog.com/ should consider this the best compliment ever! After the initial shock of finding out that we were having a boy, Ellie was super excited about their little man’s nursery. Check out their reveal here and you get a good sense of what our nursery is going to look like…
Fancy X Pallet Table
10-27-2012
I haven’t posted the details yet from our pallet wall in the nursery, the sneak peek is here, but after that project was finished we had a ton of leftover scraps. If you’ve been around our blog for a while, you know that I look for ways to utilize every piece of scrap. So I decided to whip together a…
Bedside Tables
10-07-2012
We’ve made some progress on our guest room over the last couple months. We started with a clean slate and moved any furniture that we had out of the room. The dresser was painted and put in the nursery, the pallet headboard and bed were sold, and the IKEA bookcase was relocated. So all we had in the guest room…
Man Nursery….Sneak Peek
10-01-2012
There’s much more to this story but we couldn’t resist giving you a sneak peek at Tucker’s Nursery….aka Baby Man Cave. More details to follow.
Book and Picture Ledges
09-29-2012
Another quick and easy project was completed for Tucker’s nursery a couple weeks ago but I’m just now posting about it. For whatever reason, these pictures didn’t turn out well….but there’s some major construction going on in Tucker’s room today….so you’ll definitely need to check back for the full nursery reveal soon I followed the principles of the simple photo…
Old Wood Sign
09-28-2012
The pictures on this one may not do it justice……you’ll have to wait for Tucker’s entire nursery to come together to get the full effect. Anyways, I was dropping off some recycling the other week and came across this really sweet old farm bench. My vision was to fix it up and put it in our backyard somewhere. Ellie did…
Living Room Side Tables
09-24-2012
Our updated living room was in need of some new side tables. We looked for some reasonably priced ones at our local antique store, Target, IKEA, Home Goods, and more but didn’t find anything that we liked or at a price that we could afford…..so, I did what I almost always do and began to figure out how I could…
Built-In Bookcases and Living Room Reveal
09-16-2012
One of the big projects we’ve been meaning to tackle is to build some built-in bookcases around the doors in our living room. I’ve been putting this off until we changed the flooring (that way the baseboard would already be ripped off). Well, the time had come…..and thus began the research phase of looking at bookcases. I was hoping to…
Kitchen Island Redo
09-01-2012
I finally put the finishing touches onto our kitchen island. When I refinished our floors, I disassembled our kitchen island (to take a look at what it used to look like; click here). On the rebuild, I wanted to do 2 things; add doors/drawers to it and put it on wheels so that we could clean underneath the island and…
Finished Floors
08-17-2012
Question: Would you ever install unfinished floors and finish them yourself? Answer: No. Never again. I’ve been working on our hardwood floors for quite a while now. An hour here, and hour there, and a few minutes squeezed in when I could. It was a good project to have at the beginning of our NICU process (see Tucker) because…
Window Bench Redo
08-15-2012
It’s been a while since we’ve posted but there’s been a lot going on around our house. Besides the arrival of our son, Tucker (about 14 weeks premature), we just finished laying, staining, and sealing new hardwood floors throughout the whole first story of our home. When I ripped up the old floor, I also disassembled our kitchen island and…
Unfinished Hardwood Floors
07-20-2012
Let’s just say……I picked the worse time ever to rip up a majority of our flooring and begin to install unfinished hardwood throughout the first story of our home. The timing may be off, but I’m slowly making some progress on a project that will really transform our most common living areas. Here’s a pic or two of the progress….waiting…
Sawhorse Desk with a Door Tabletop
07-08-2012
Remember this double work station we built? Well, we decided to downgrade it to a single work station. We had a twin bed in what is now Tucker’s room that we needed to find a place for. We were considering storing it in the attic until a later time but thought it might be nice to make it available for…
Painting a Chevron Dresser…Again
07-07-2012
Well, it wasn’t too long ago that I painted an old dresser with a Chevron pattern on it. If you want the details on how I came up with the pattern and taped it off, check here. The dresser that I used in the tutorial was a little too short for our liking so we sold it to some friends of…
Classic Baby Bumpers with Piping Tutorial
07-04-2012
I just finished sewing the bumper for Tucker’s nursery and we are so pleased with the way it turned out. I am not a proficient seamstress like my mom, but these bumpers were a lot easier to sew than anticipated. I used a tutorial that I found online by Vanessa Goertzen. Here’s her tutorial with some of my own additions…
Repainting an Old Dresser
06-30-2012
We’re knocking out some projects around the home in order to prepare for the arrival of Joseph “Tucker”. One of the things I’ve been excited about for a while now is to paint his dresser a really fun/bright color. We we’re going back and forth from yellow to orange but when Ellie picked up the fabric below for the crib…
Massive 6′x6′ Farmhouse Table Finished
06-29-2012
I gave you a sneak peek at a massive table that I built for some friends of ours and now I’d like to show-off the finished product set-up in the room. This is definitely a “Thanksgiving meal” type of table because there is a ton of room in the middle of the table to lay out an entire spread of…
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