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Plank Wall Reveal.

April 9, 2015 by Michelle Hinckley |

This is a sponsored post by HomeAdvisor. All thoughts and opinions are 100% my own. Last week I gave you an in-progress peak of how our plywood plank wall project was coming along that HomeAdvisor sponsored. Now that my new friend Nathan was done with his part of the install it was my turn to take over. It was quite a doozey but I balanced a ladder on the stairs and filled nail holes then got it all painted. One thing I learned the hard way was that I should have painted the wall prior to

Wood Plank Wall with the help of HomeAdvisor.

April 2, 2015 by Michelle Hinckley |

This is a sponsored post by HomeAdvisor. All thoughts and opinions are 100% my own. The world of DIY blogs can be an intimidating place. Pinterest fools you in to thinking you can easily build a king size bed in just an afternoon while your kids quietly play legos in the corner for 5 hours. The truth is it just ain't like that. I've done enough projects to realize that you don't always save money by doing it yourself. There's also a steep learning curve which takes quite a bit of time from

Revisiting the stair walls (again).

September 25, 2014 by Michelle Hinckley |

The shelves around the fireplace are finished, painted and 1/3rd of the way filled! I find myself gravitating more towards a minimalist look when it comes to my home, which this wall definitely was pre-shelves. There's enough junk-amalism that comes along with 4 boys that I need my decor not to add to the revolving mess. Now that I have these shelves I'm trying to strike a balance between not junking them up with clutter vs. carefully curating them to look quiet, functional and

Warm Weather = Time To Paint!

February 13, 2017 by Michelle Hinckley |

Thanks to global warming Salt Lake City got up to 68 degrees this past week. Crazy unusual. I wasted no time and got my hiney outside to work on projects. My friend found this huge board at Habitat For Humanity. It was so heavy it required two people to lift it. My Mr. ripped it down the middle to create two boards. The wood was weathered and in rough shape. The more I sanded the more it started to flake of in chunks. I decided to see if I could find a commercial mill to plane the

Basement bedroom makeover.

June 1, 2016 by Michelle Hinckley |

Voting is officially open for the FrogTape Paintover Challenge until June 9th! Please head on over there and vote. If my space wills I get to donate $5000. to the American Cancer Society. You saw how we made over the living room and kitchen...we decided to also tackle the bedroom (which is not apart of the contest). The great thing this space has going for it is that it is rather spacious. As you can see it's a mod-podge of stuff and the walls were very bland. The first thing we did

2015…A year in Review.

December 29, 2015 by Michelle Hinckley |

In 2007 my husband started this blog as a way to keep our families up to date on our lives. At that time I had no idea what a blog was. I never could have imagined it would have turned in to such a fun and creative journey. Each year it always surprises me to see how much we accomplished because frankly, although totally rewarding, raising 4 men is the hardest and most time consuming job I will ever embark on. Here's a look back on a few of our projects in 2015 of our pursuit to bring