My inbox has been flooded with questions about my slipcovers so it's time to dish. Pre-children, we bought these lovely cream colored, microfiber sofas. The sales lady told me that microfiber is super kid friendly (for when our kiddos came). She lied. I was constantly scrubbing these babies to get dirt out. And let it be known that I don't think we're dirty people either. We don't wear shoes in the house, we don't eat on the sofas and we don't have pets. Nonetheless, the sofas always looked
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Bedside table makeover.
Well peeps, I'm out. Of the bedroom contest, that is. The finalists have been announced and the rooms are exquisite. See here. So I can finally reveal my bedroom. But, of course I'm going to keep you in suspense. Just one more DIY makeover project before I give you the full enchilada.
Our room needed major storage so I decided to use some chest of drawers as our bedside tables. For months I searched garage sales, thrift stores and Craigslist looking for matching drawers but found nada. On a
More handyman specials.
As promised, here are a couple pictures of the other small bookshelves Mr. Handyman made for me. He made two like this that are identical and flank both sides of the sofa in the den where I hide my junk. I'll never understand why in the world builders don't build basements in the desert. I get it that the ground is hard but a cool, dark basement is exactly what a desert home needs. As a result of no basement, I have to come up with creative storage solutions around the house.
I made simple
Command Central.
I don't know about your neck of the woods but our fine city is singing the economy blues. My front door is plastered with flyers advertising home improvement services at astonishing low rates. Gifted craftsmen are begging for work and will do it for very little. Sad.
This is Command Central at my house. It is the place where we work, schedule doctor's appointments, blog, play games, read, lounge, work on homework, all that stuff.
When we first moved in this home almost 2 years ago I envisioned
My dirty little decorating secret…
If you knew me you'd know that I ltake great pride in the way my house looks, I like to be organized and I'm down right fussy about decor.
Prepare yourselves, I'm about to reveal my dirty little decorating seceret...my bedroom.
This lovely quilt screams style, doesn't it? I put it on the bed after my boys jumped on my lovely white comforter with dirty feet. And can you believe...NO BED SKIRT! GASP! That's been on my to-do list ever since we moved in the house 2 years ago (actually,
Enrichment Night.
I was asked to teach a quick segment on how to bring a little pizzazz to gift wrapping at our Enrichment Night this month. Here are just a FEW examples...
Here are a few tips:
DO:
1. DO invest in neutral, sold color wrapping papers. White and black are my favs...it goes with any gender, holiday, or occasion based on how you embellish it (or not).
2. DO embelish. Use anything that has an interesting shape, color or pattern. Tissue paper, scrapbook letters, flowers, toys, ribbons.
3. DO make