How to Nest for Less | My Life as a DIY Wannabe
Home Design & Decor on the Cheap
Since we’ve been spending a lot of time on the front porch recently while our little one plays outside, I decided it was time to spruce up our space. The old rockers we had on our front porch we purchased the day we moved into our home… over 6 years ago! Let’s just say they [...]
Yesterday I unveiled our master bedroom makeover! My favorite part of the room is definitely our accent wall. I found these 4x8ft sheets of this cedar MDF wall paneling from Lowe’s for only $14.96 per sheet. This paneling had the exact look I was going for: whitewashed wood with neutral tones of white, gray and [...]
Yay! It’s finally time to reveal my master bedroom makeover! I’ve been talking about this post for quite some time, so it’s so exciting to finally share my transformation photos with you (and get ready, there’s a lot!). And if you don’t remember, here’s the before… I was looking to make our bedroom a little [...]
Well I just realized that I haven’t shown you my craft room in awhile. I think the last thing you saw was my stenciled yellow wall back in November and a couple of minor projects here and there. So, why haven’t you seen much from this room? Probably cause I hate it. Ok, ok… hate [...]
I got some new curtain panels from Pier 1 Imports this past week. The peacock blue were just a little too drastic, even for my taste! I still have a plan for the old curtains (thinking maybe my home office), but I needed something more neutral for our living room/dining room. So what do ya [...]
Yep, I’m giving my great room a mini-makeover. I needed to paint: something lighter, brighter and desaturated since I’m starting to add a lot more COLOR in the room. Whelp… Hee, hee. Can you tell I’m excited? This is a WORK IN PROGRESS, but I couldn’t wait to show you the difference a coat of [...]
So today I’m getting the interior of my house painted! And yes, I’m having someone else do the job. While I could easily do it myself (and I did the last time), I work a full time job, plus have a kid, husband, dog, cook, clean, and tend to mounds of laundry (oh, and blogging [...]
WOW, what a year! I went “live” with this little blog back on May 23rd as a way to record my DIY projects while my hubby was off working nights and weekends. I could have never dreamed that 7 months later I would have over 700 Facebook followers and a daily average of about 5,000 [...]
So I’ve been slowly transforming our old playroom into a home office/craft room. Here’s what it looked like before… Toys everywhere, a large dresser filled with off-season clothes, outdated drapes and chair rail border… yeah, desperately in need of a makeover. The first step in transforming my new space: painting the walls yellow! I chose [...]
OK, so I’m actually making some progress on my home office / {someday} craft room! I bought some paint today from Lowe’s and started the makeover. Here’s a shot of the before when it was a playroom… We had the futon couch for my sister to crash on when she visited from Chicago, plus a [...]
As you all know, I’m trying to “nest for less” by revamping my house on a budget. Last week I got a new kitchen stone backsplash for around $350 in materials and I’m in LOVE. Now to continue with my kitchen transformation we’ve added crown molding to the top of the cabinets. We just had plain [...]
My kitchen is definitely not my dream kitchen. For some stupid reason when my husband and I built our first home together 6 years ago, we picked out gray countertops and builder grade oak cabinets in the kitchen. Blah! The gray countertops against the orangish oak cabinets never made sense to me and I wanted [...]
Just recently I redecorated my daughter’s bedroom from its prior hot pink princess look and feel to a more serene setting with shades of blue, green and rose. As blogged here, I’ve finished most of the redesign, I now just have a couple of finishing touches. First task on my list, the accent wall that [...]
I’m currently in the process of trying to redecorate my daughter’s bedroom. It’s been a long overhaul to say the least! Before the remodel my three year old had a hot pink accent wall which really overpowered the entire room. I thought it was a good idea to paint the wall this color when I [...]
One of my favorite DIY websites is www.centsationalgirl.com. Recently she featured a bare wall transformation creating an instant mud room. I loved this idea and decided to use it for my laundry room since it’s right off the garage. I started with painting my white walls to a desaturated olive green that matches my kitchen [...]
About three years ago I wanted to wallpaper my hall bathroom, but I was very nervous since I had never wallpapered anything in my life. I was very lucky to bring wandering through the aisles at Lowe’s and happened to find Paper Illusion, a wallpaper that you tear and overlap. The sales man swore there [...]
