You guys, we have a gray living room! Wahoo! Nearly six months later (remember the last time we made progress?) we finally are seeing more gray. It is such an improvement from the yellow we had before. Don’t get me wrong, I love me the color yellow, just not on our walls. Lessons learned, right? […]
Apartment Therapy’s Room for Color
On a whim last week I submitted my newly styled bathroom for Apartment Therapy’s Room for Color. Surely it won’t make it in, I thought, there are so many more appealing rooms out there! I was gladly proven wrong when I spotted my bathroom on Apartment Therapy’s site. Whaat! It’s a little surreal, guys! I’ve […]
Bowlin’ with the Homies
Before school started for my son Elijah, we wanted to do something special for him for getting perfect scores on his test and making Principle’s List. We already gave him a mohawk for the summer, which he loved, and since he had been wanting to go bowling we took him out for a game. I […]
August Thrift Store Finds
August was good in terms of thrifting. I actually had the time to dig through one store’s bins of what seemed like junk. Because I only had miss Isabelle in tow during this particular trip, I was able to find some pretty cool things. In those seemingly junk bins, I uncovered a little baggie full […]
Bathroom Reveal
If you’ve been following along, you’ve watched our bathroom go from this… …to this. Seriously, I’m kind of in shock. If you had told me one month ago my bathroom would look like this, I wouldn’t have believed you. I did that?! No way! All it took was a quart of free paint, one can […]
Frame Wall Details
Last week I shared with you my expanded frame wall but I didn’t get into much detail. Today I’m back to spill the beans on where each picture and frame is from. So let’s get to it, shall we? 1. Yellow balloon print from Society 6, because who doesn’t like balloons? 2. This pretty map of the DC/Baltimore area was […]
Hello, Bathroom Shelves!
Going into the Style Cure, I knew I wanted to replace the standard metal shelf in our bathroom with thick floating shelves. I also knew what wood I wanted to use for those shelves, which was a thick piece from a pile of scrap wood I bought at an estate sale. In order to achieve […]
Spray Painting a Light Fixture
After updating our bathroom cabinet knob and soap pump with spray paint, the brushed nickel bathroom light was looking a bit out of place, both placement and color wise. Although it didn’t look its best, it wasn’t horrible enough to make me want to change it right away. Then the walls acquired some color, and […]
Feeling Gray
For Apartment Therapy’s Style Cure, I have been painting the bathroom. So far the walls are done but I am considering painting the ceiling. The bathroom is really coming together now that there is some color on the wall. Yes, gray is a color. I’ll be back next week with details and pictures. In the […]
Extending My Frame Wall
The last time you saw my frame wall, I was boasting about Eliana’s artistic abilities. Since then, I’ve added more frames to the equation, turning this… …into this. There was really no method to the madness, I just went around with a hammer and nails, holding frames up (and having Philip hold frames up), then […]