DIY: Adding Color to Your Space
Alright, you’ve fallen into the fad of neutral tones and whitewashed textures and your home now feels like a glorified hospital waiting room. Sure, maybe it’s ‘calming’... but maybe it’s just boring. Maybe it’s trending… or maybe it lacks any trace of you-ness.
DIY: Making a Gallery Wall
We all do our best to make our houses feel like homes, but often they can feel more like temporary dwellings for little more than sleep and storage. Often this is because there is nothing of us in them—no character, no personal touch.
DIY: Making a Shelf Display
“Why can’t I make my shelves look like the magazine?” This is the cry of many home decorators trying something new. But don’t sweat it! We’re here to give you a few tips for your DIY shelving endeavor.
DIY: Updating Your Front Porch
Your first impression sets the tone and expectations for the rest of your interaction. It is no different for homes. Your home should be an inviting space, from the front steps to the last post of the fence.
DIY: Updating Your Kitchen
If we are to spend so much time and make so many important memories in this space, then it should be a space we like to spend our lives in. Thus comes the subject of today's post: DIY Kitchen Updates.
DIY: Organizing Your Closet
We’ve all heard the phrase ‘skeletons in the closet.’ It’s meant to be a euphemism for dark secrets but for some of us, the saying might be a bit more…literal. Of course, I don't think any of us have literal skeletons in our closets but the cupboard might very well be too cluttered for us to be able to tell.
DIY: Tuning Up & Refinishing Furniture
This one’s for all the thrifting and ‘use it till the legs fall off’ people out there! You want furniture that will get the job done without the hefty price tags of brand-new designer items, so you turn to thrift stores and garage sales. We understand, and we’re right there with you! But there are easy and cheap ways to give your well-loved furniture a tune-up, and we’re going to share them with you in this post!
DIY: Updating Your Laundry Room
In the day-to-day, it is easy to allocate the more mundane tasks and unpleasant chores into a certain ‘just get it done’ category in our minds. Taking out the trash, washing the dishes, making the bed: We do these things every day without a second thought, never considering how they might be transformed into enjoyable and edifying activities.
Decorating Your Home for Christmas
We all know that the most wonderful time of the year can also be one of the most stressful times of the year for a lot of different reasons. Maybe hosting family is hectic or your December calendar fills up in what feels like minutes. The last thing you need is to also be stressed about decorating your home for the holidays.
Decorating Your Home for Thanksgiving
Every November, there is a war between people who are ready to start celebrating Christmas and those who fiercely defend the day that stands between Halloween and the official start of the Christmas season in the United States. That day, of course, is Thanksgiving – on the fourth Thursday of November. Whether you put up your tree the moment Halloween is over or can’t hear a note of Michael Buble until Black Friday begins, we can all agree that Thanksgiving is worth preserving in the midst of the yearly decorating debate.
Decorating Your Home for Fall (& a Fear-Free Halloween)
When it comes to decorating your home for different holidays, there are different challenges and different appeals. In the spring and especially in the summer months, decorating can only go so far because many of those holidays like Memorial Day and the 4th of July are primarily celebrated outdoors. The holidays that fall later in the year, however, offer a different charm for decorating.
Decorating Your Home for the 4th of July
By the time July rolls around, it’s been a while since any big holidays. Easter falls somewhere in March or April, and Memorial Day closes out the month of May. But across the summer months of June through August, there’s essentially only one major holiday to celebrate, and it’s the holiday that encapsulates everything that an American summer should be. This is the 4th of July, and a day this good deserves to be decked out just as well!
Decorating Your Home for Easter
Maybe you think first of egg hunts and baskets filled with chocolate treasures. Or maybe your childhood memories include church services and a big lunch afterwards with your family. Maybe you dye the best eggs in the house. However Easter may have looked in your family growing up, it’s certainly a wonderful opportunity to celebrate and decorate as friends and family come together each spring.
Decorating Your Home for Valentine’s Day
Picture it – your Christmas decorations have all been packed away for a while now, the house is looking a little sad, and you’re still in the middle of winter with cold temperatures and not much sunlight. Let’s be honest, February can be a bit of a downer sometimes. Springtime and sunshine are still a month or two away, and you need something to celebrate to lift everyone’s spirits. Enter Valentine's Day.