a home decor blog, making it pretty one space at a time
how to create art for your decor with your baby introduction When I imagined being a mom, I pictured myself doing fun projects with my little ones. Don is currently 9 months old and so you might think that he is too young for any painting (much less something that I’d want to put on my walls), but I… Read More
Today we are talking about how to removing paint off stairs. As a reminder this is how my stairs looked: So scary! A DIY gone bad, for sure! My plan was to use a safe stripper to remove the layers of paint and wallpaper and polyurethane so I can redo the edges and lay down a stair runner. Here’s how… Read More
Hi Friends! I have started thinking about my stairs. If you remember from this post, my stairs are a big Pinterest Fail. Aka, I read how to wallpaper/paint my stairs from Pinterest and it turned out horribly wrong. Everything was fine (the wallpaper, the paint), until I put on a finish coat of polyeurthane. This clear coat (which was supposed… Read More
Hello! Today I am sharing my holiday decorations! In this post, I shared my Christmas theme and some inspiration pictures, and interestingly enough, I veered from those photos. I went more pastels and less black and white. But I love it! And am so happy with how it came together! Let’s dive right in: The Christmas tree is a pre-lit… Read More
Good morning! So this year I became obsessed with the idea of a Christmas village for our house. I had been pinning Christmas inspiration to my Holiday Pinterest board and kept loving images with Christmas villages. My little sister put up a village in her house and it made me think maybe I could do that too! I am on a… Read More
Hi everyone! I finally put the finally touches on my picture frame molding and can’t wait to show it to you! Here we go! How to install picture molding First of all, picture frame molding is when you have boxes of trim above and below your chair molding. It’s a very classic/traditional wall treatment that I’ve always wanted in my… Read More
