a home decor blog, making it pretty one space at a time
For the past few months, I’ve been slowly working on my patio. It’s almost to the point where I consider it done, so I thought I’d share how much the patio cost. Before this project, an outdoor entertaining area would have totally overwhelmed me! But we broke it down to bite sized projects and now I honestly can’t believe this… Read More
At the end of July 2018 we moved into our current house! We LOVE this home, but getting here was not easy. My husband and I are both self-employed and I’d always heard that because of that, getting a mortgage would be tricky, but I didn’t realize HOW tricky! Here’s a quick video where I go over our story of… Read More
Our kitchen is nice and big, but the only place we have to eat is in there too so it doubles as a dining room. When we first moved in, I put the rug down from our old dining room and called it a day. Well, it’s always been too short and awkward under the table (half of the… Read More
Our backyard is a disaster. Like- I’m embarrassed for people to see the state it is in. The grass is ripped up from the sprinkler installation. The gravel is full of dead weeds. There’s a half dug out section where our patio will go. The bottom line- it isn’t cute. But, on the wall where we redid the siding, painted… Read More
Guess what was happening one year ago? I was moving into my house (that I lovingly call Fairview Cottage)! I’ll be honest, when I think back, this was a really hard point in our lives. We’d moved from Florida and were between houses for over a month and a half while waiting to be able to close on the house… Read More
Over the past few years I’ve really gotten into redoing furniture with chalk paint. It’s a fun and affordable way to update me house- what’s not to love? Well, the mess- lol! I’ve collected bottles of paint and placed them on a shelf and let’s just say, it’s gotten out of hand! Don’t believe me?
