• Decor - DIY Projects

    5 Repurposed Kitchen Island Tutorials

    1:50 PM - By 

    When I was toss­ing around ideas for cre­at­ing a kitchen island, I knew with­out a doubt that I want­ed to repur­pose SOMETHING, but I wan’t too sure on what. Of course, if you fol­low the blog, then you already know we decid­ed on the dress­er in the image below. I am super pleased with how this piece turned out. But y’all, if I had a place in my house for more than one repur­posed island, you betcha I would have these in this collection. I just sim­ply want­ed to gath­er them for you, and unfold my thought process behind my…

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    Easy Vintage Stamped Lamp Shade

    2:28 AM - By 

    This DIY has got to be one of the eas­i­est cre­ations I have made in a while. It took me all of 5 min­utes, maybe less to com­plete this DIY. It all start­ed with a plain lamp shade, stamps and a love for all things vin­tage. If you have these three things handy then you too can reacre­ate this look. What you’ll need: This post con­tains affil­i­ate links. Ink Pad Stamps Lamp Shade Mod Podge is optional  Sim­ply take your stamp, press it into the ink and stamp away! That is it! If you are want­i­ng this vin­tage-type look, I advise you…

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    DIY Rustic Island Counter Top

    8:52 PM - By 

    Sooo, as most of you may already know we have been steadi­ly work­ing on con­vert­ing an old dress­er into a kitchen island. My num­ber one goal out of this entire con­ver­sion process has been work­ing toward cap­tur­ing an old, just pulled out of a barn feel. I don’t know if that makes any sense to you but that is lit­er­al­ly the phrase I have been using to describe my vision. Rusty hard­ware (that I also DIY’d HERE) , chip­py paint…you name it. This has pre­sent­ed itself to be quite the chal­lenge but I was eager to get this part of…

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    How to Layer Stain Like a Pro

    8:09 PM - By 

    Learn how to give new wood a beau­ti­ful nat­u­ral­ly aged look with the stain lay­er­ing tech­nique An easy DIY method for using stain to achieve an old look. The goal here was to make this wood look aged and pre­vi­ous­ly loved. In this case, a since shade of stain was­n’t gonna cut it. I decid­ed on using a tech­nique I am unof­fi­cial­ly nam­ing stain lay­er­ing. To be truth I don’t know if this is techini­cal­ly a tech­nique but it’s what I came up with and I must say I hap­py with the results. These are the shades I used:  Min­wax Weath­ered Oak 270…

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    DIY Vent Hood Cover from Scrap Wood

    1:03 PM - By 

    This idea blos­somed when we decid­ed to update our dark and drea­ry kitchen to an authen­tic farm­house kitchen, which you can rad about HERE. I had always want­ed a vent hood cov­er and since this is our for­ev­er home, I decid­ed it was time to take the plunge.…except for one small prob­lem. We had an over­head microwave mount­ed above the stove. There was no vent pipe redi­rect­ing the air, only the microwave and a small set of vents on the top.  I refused to let my dream of hav­ing a beau­ti­ful vent hood cov­er fade. My hus­band and I chewed over…

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    Vintage Valentine’s Day Mantle Decor

    6:20 PM - By 

    Ok y’all. So I have jumped on the band­wag­on and decid­ed to add just a touch of love to my decor for Valen­tine’s Day. I have not giv­en it much thought in years past but I am real­ly enjoy­ing the chal­lenge of incor­po­rat­ing the “feel” of Valen­tine’s with­out so much of the reds ros­es and pink plas­tic hearts.  I cre­at­ed this look by gath­er­ing a few signs I had in oth­er rooms of my home and brought them togeth­er to cap­ture a cen­tral theme. The largest one came right off my mas­ter bed­room wall. No kid­ding! When I dec­o­rate it…

  • DIY Projects - Kitchen

    Rustic Farmhouse Kitchen Makeover

    9:02 PM - By 

    If you would have told me a year ago that I would be shar­ing images of my new­ly updat­ed dream kitchen I would have lol’d…BIG TIME! We were no where near buy­ing our for­ev­er home, in fact, we were rent­ing and bank­ing on buy­ing that place! But God…GOD had dif­fer­ent plans for our fam­i­ly. I din’t know exact­ly what they were at that point but I just had this feel­ing that we need­ed to wait.  The iron­ic part is I am a very VERY impa­tient per­son. When I get some­thing in my head, I want to jump to it right them…

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    A Tiered Tray Styled with DIY Projects

    7:32 PM - By 

    I have nev­er real­ly dec­o­rat­ed for Valen­tine’s Day but I am real­ly enjoy­ing just a sprin­kle of love here and there min­gled with my decor. And after see­ing plen­ty of Valen­tine’s Day trays decked out in bright reds and pinks I decid­ed I want­ed to tone things down a bit and bring some of my DIY projects togeth­er to cre­ate a beau­ti­ful­ly styled Neu­tral Valen­tines Day Tiered Tray. When all was said and done this lit­tle thing was FILLED with sim­ple DIY’s I have cre­at­ed over time. There is noth­ing more sat­is­fy­ing that see­ing all your projects come togeth­er beau­ti­ful­ly.…

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    How to Prep Your Cabinets for Paint

    4:51 AM - By 

    Okay, y’all. Let me just start by say­ing, I am not a pro­fes­sion­al painter. This is my sec­ond time tak­ing on this type of project but my first time doc­u­ment­ing the process. I com­plete­ly under­stand how over­whelm­ing it can become with the crazy amount of cab­i­net paint­ing tuto­ri­als that are out there. That is why I have tried my very best to break it down in the clear­est way possible.  We recent­ly moved into our for­ev­er home and even though I fell in love with the house, I did not love the cab­i­nets. And let me tell ya, if there…

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    Winter Decor Ideas for After Christmas

    8:45 PM - By 

    Although it is 60 degrees and I have my win­dows open, win­ter sol­stice has offi­cial­ly arrived here in West­ern Ken­tucky. Lucky for me this year I have focused more on win­ter­ing my decor from the begin­ning of the hol­i­day sea­son. Aside from tak­ing the Christ­mas tree down in a few days there is very lit­tle I will have to do to tran­si­tion the home­stead into a cozy abode this winter. I hope you enjoy gath­er­ing inspi­ra­tion from these spaces like I did bring­ing them togeth­er. Each idea is unique and would be a won­der­ful win­tery addi­tion to your home. I…