Laundry Reveal

The laundry room is officially done! Well there is still one thing on the list, which now that I write this, I worry we may never do, but alas it is done! So what did we do to get to this point? Let's start with the new drywall ceilings. Big pain, but worthwhile. We ended …

Laundry Room Reloaded

I don’t know if you remember but last spring we called it a wrap on the laundry room. It’s like throwing in the towel except literally you need to throw in the towels because we just couldn’t live without a functioning laundry room. I’d like to say when we wrapped it was 1/2 done, but …

Laundry Room Wrap Up

So unlike a finished project, this is a wrap up. It's where you don't really see an end in sight, but you've got to get your room back together and you decide to be practical and realistic and look back at your historical likelihood of being done any time soon and realize vacuuming the sawdust …

How to cut a cabinet and put it back together without it looking terrible.

Here's to hoping you never need to know how to do this. But in the off chance you find yourself in a similar situation, of a too long cabinet, let me walk you through how to skinny it up! Let me start this with, make sure the thing you are hoping to size down is …

If you ever wanted insight into why projects take us so dang long, here it is:

So this fail has been awhile in the making. Let me start this story from the very beginning. Once upon a time I painted the old fish tank base Conner's Lakefront. I bought the paint and painted it all in the same day. It looked beautiful. Brett comes home, pops in the laundry room and …

Fails thus Far

I've been MIA for a bit because both the boys had strep. The fun kind where one has it and finally gets better only for the other one to get it. Pretty much my favorite way to do any kind of illness - never ending- who can't get on board with that! But we are …

Skipping ahead

So if you remember from the last post we are focusing our energies on this part of the laundry room first. It is the more "finished" of the two parts since it has complete walls (now), a ceiling and flooring. Nevermind that the flooring is hodge-podged together with a solid pebble inspired linoleum covering the whole room …

Plywood Planks for the Win

Where did I last leave you? Oh yes, with plans to put up plywood planks on the walls. I remember being excited, thinking it wouldn't be that much work... Pretty sure I had some exclamation points about horizontal boards! It's a good thing I consistently underestimate the time or effort things take because it turns …

De-nastifying the laundry room (you know making it not so nasty)

The walls in the laundry room in addition to being ugly are also really wonky. They have  some weird type of textured drywall. Not textured like orange peel, but more like the section of wall next to my brother's bunk bed growing up. If no one had disgusting brothers and am not sure what I'm …

Orange. Why would any reasonable person ever choose orange?

Let me introduce you to the ugliest space in our house, painted arguably the ugliest color in existence. It's not just the particular shade of orange that I find assaultingly ugly, it's that I'm not really convinced I could love orange under any circumstance. I take that back. Orange in a sunset is a win. …