By virtue that my last post has been sitting here four months with no follow up, you could probably assume that this project got the best of me, and that it still looks like we live in a crumbling tenement building. Not so! I actually finished this project around the first of March. I am just woefully […]
Scraping off 100 pounds of painted wallpaper
It wasn’t until we had lived in this house quite a while that I realized our bedroom walls were a mess. What I initially thought was textured plaster turned out to be many layers of painted wallpaper. Wallpaper seams were showing through, both horizontal and vertical, leaving a crisscross pattern on the walls. The weird faux plaster […]
Declutter 2015: The Bedroom
Challenge: I am tasking myself with going through my entire house and getting rid of everything that we don’t need anymore. I’m also taking this opportunity to repair things that are broken, eliminate annoyances, develop new systems, and just streamline as much as possible. See more posts in the series >> I asked my husband which room I […]
Photobooth photo wall art
OK who likes photobooth photos? Everybody? Thought so. But they are kind of hard to display, you know, other than tacking them up on a cork board or refrigerator. I wanted to include this one on my bedroom gallery wall, but they don’t make long and skinny frames for photo strips. I decided to go […]
Taking inspiration from a vintage hatbox
I say, you can never have too many pretty storage boxes. My mom gave me these unfinished wood boxes we found in her basement. I sat on them for months (well, not literally) because I didn’t really know what to do with them. That was until I saw this: A vintage hatbox I spied at […]