As you can see with the boots in this picture when the kids come in from the snow their snow gear gets thrown in front of our wood stove. Which is a great place, but should be hanging and out of the way. Yes I could just purchase a drying rack, but then it I …

In our downstairs family room the way it’s set up is a little odd with our wood stove and a beam in the middle. So on the one side opposite of our sofa/tv we have always had it set up like a “kid zone”. A small place for the kids to play while we were …

In our family room we have a large basket filled with our throw blankets, but our family room is also in our downstairs which tends to get damp in the summer even with dehumidifiers going constantly. When I was taking blankets out to wash one day they just didn’t seem fresh. Being shoved in a …

I needed a change in our living room. Sometimes I would just sit our our couch and stare at our wall with our window and think about painting it, maybe adding wallpaper etc. Just for some contrast with all of the white. I love adding shiplap to walls like I did in our entry, but …

I love decorating for Christmas. I tend to decorate with natural, rustic and vintage pieces and this year is no different. The small trees, garland, pinecones and vintage pieces all come together to make this my favorite decorating year yet! I recently talked on Instagram about why I like to decorate with vintage pieces. Most …

As the air is getting colder and the outside projects are over for the season there is one thing you can’t forget to do. That is preparing your tools for the winter. This blog post is generously sponsored by STIHL. All opinions are my own. You know from past posts why I think every home …

I love a great Habitat for Humanity Restore find. These two bar stools were only $3 each. Even though they were in rough shape I knew they would be perfect to repurpose into plant stands. The first thing I knew that had to change was the height. I wanted low plant stands and two different …

This bench is the last piece I needed to complete our side entrance and I designed it myself! Pretty proud, it was extremely easy and very basic but it’s the first bench I designed and actually built it. I have been working on our side entrance for a few months and it has come so …

School is now in full swing and I now have both of my kids climbing onto the school bus in the morning! Even when I only had one kid getting on the bus, I felt the mornings were a bit hectic or we were running to the end of the driveway to catch the bus, …

I have been fighting with this space for awhile now. It’s our side entrance, that basically us and everyone of our good friends use to get into our home. It’s full of shoes, dirt, and doesn’t feel fresh anymore. So I decided that the catch all wood organizer hanging on the wall needs to go …