a home decor blog, making it pretty one space at a time
photo by Kalee Renee Photography I grew up in a home that was all about reading. I remember a drawer in the hallway that was jam packed with books. I would pull that drawer open and sit there reading my favorite stories (or at least looking at the pictures). I remember my mom spending hours and hours reading with us. Sometimes we… Read More
Hello! Today I am jumping into week three of my stair renovation that I am doing for the One Room Challenge. The first week I shared my plans. The second week I painted the stairs white. This week I will show how to install picture molding on stairs. Here is where we started before I put up the molding:
Some of my most popular posts on this blog have been my budget blogs. If you are new here, a few years ago I went on a radical budget and we paid off $40k in debt! (here’s the post on how we paid off all of that debt and here are my tips on what you should do first if you… Read More
Today’s post is about painting my stairs. It’s also about doing hard things. I have been avoiding painting my stairs because it is hard work. And painful. If you have a project like this (since we all do, right?!) my advice is to break it into small steps, don’t over think it and just dive in. Sometimes your brain is awesome… Read More
Every night, in the middle of the night, this really fun thing happens when my dogs need to go outside, but we don’t want to turn on all of the lights in our house because we don’t want to fully wake up or wake up baby Don. We’ve used our phone flash lights, but it’s not as effective at keeping… Read More
image via Hi guys! I have been busily working on my stairs- I decided to do them for the One Room Challenge. The last you saw of my home renovations was my entry. We have decided to continue the wood floors up the stairs. That means that I need to paint the stairwell (which is an overwhelming task!), scrape the… Read More
