Basement Family Room Renovation: Built-In Sektion Cabinets
We absolutely love the built-in storage under our basement stairs. But we filled it quickly and knew we needed more! As part of our family room design, we decided to…
Basement Renovation: Built-In Storage
Like most basements, we've used ours for storing things we don't use everyday. It's also become the "I don't have the energy to deal with this, so throw it in…
Basement Bedroom Renovation: Framing, Drywall and Painting
Once the back of the basement was clear of our crap, it was time to start framing the back half of the basement. The hardest part of the basic framing…
Nursery Makeover
When we found out we were having twins, we were in the middle of a major kitchen renovation and I didn't have hours on end to look at nursery ideas.…
Kitchen Renovation: Part 10 – New Cabinets, Countertops and Appliances
One of the biggest ticket items for our kitchen was our new cabinets and countertops. When we first began the design phase, we asked our architect what we should do:…
Kitchen Renovation: Part 4 – Setting up a Temporary Kitchen
Despite what our contractor thinks, we know that this kitchen renovation is going to take longer than just a few weeks. And after living through our messy dining room wall…
Fauxdenza Revisited
Four years ago I made an amazing Ikea hack. Using the Besta storage system, I made a beautiful, not-Ikea-looking fauxdenza that I hung on our dining room wall. Well, now…
Christmas 2018
Another Christmas, and another dash to a construction project finish line! With our dining room walls gone, we had a few last minute projects to complete before Christmas. Mainly finishing…
Learning Tower
Now that Adam is older and starting to be interested in, well, EVERYTHING, I wanted to build him a little stool so he could stand at the counter on his…
Master Bedroom Closet Renovation
The major change (or one of the major changes) in our upstairs renovation was the installation of a new closet in the master bedroom. The reason we started this project is really because the original…
Drywall Nightmares: Part 1 – Master and Middle Bedroom Demolition
Before we could start painting, we had some drywalling to do. We wanted a new wall flush with the exposed brick, we wanted a closet opening that would fit an IKEA…
Fauxdenza
Now that Alex and I are done most of our major construction projects, we are working on updating some of our furniture - particularly those old Ikea pieces that we're…