1. A must-try tutorial for laminate furniture.  via 2. A strange solution for the selfie-taker with no friends. (Can you imagine carrying that around?!?) 3. Hell, by personality type. 4. This light must. be. mine.  5. We're getting a pet this weekend and I am not terribly excited about it. Unless I can teach it to paint or assemble Ikea cabinets.

Some people ask me when I work on the house stuff. It really depends on the schedule that day and the project at hand. I rarely pull out the paint during the day, especially if it's oil based, because by the  time I get into the painting groove, the babe wakes up.   I spray paint, stain, scrub,

Y'all know I love Restore. It's like Disneyland for me, plus the proceeds go to a great cause. Win-win. We designed the living space in the basement to be separated from the storage room by a large doorway. A couple months ago, I was checking out Restore and I found some pocket doors from presumably a 1920s Victorian

Last week, we were in Boston. While I was gone, the basement ceiling was painted and the spray foam insulation was blown in.  I had my "spies" at the house sending me progress shots but...gah!  It was so hard to be gone, especially knowing that I tend to have some neurosis regarding paint colors.  I had decided against