You know when I come on here and I tell you about a new project and sometimes I am usually doing a happy dance about it? Well for this project..still an awesome one, I think it might be the hubby doing all the happy dancing for this one. But that’s not really a sight you …
It’s final reveal time and it feels so good! Living in a raised ranch or split level as some of you call it, the entry always seems to be a problem when it comes to decorating or storage. We mostly use our side door to come in the home so storage wasn’t a concern for us, …
I have never liked our entry way. We live in, what we New Yorker’s call a raised ranch. You might call them split entry or bi-level. Our entry never looked finished after we created the bookshelf on the other side. It was kinda just blah. I decided to brighten up the whole space and shiplap …
This was totally unplanned, but I have always wanted it to happen. The tile in our entry, to me, was just plain ugly. It kind of had a mauve/blush undertone that was always fighting with the wall color and the stairs (which will be restained soon!). While we were putting up the planking on the …
Sometimes living in a raised ranch you have to deal with odd things. (Before you yell, in NY we call it a raised ranch. Where you live it might be called a split or bi-level.) The odd thing in our home is the coat closet at the top of our stairs does not have a …
When we started house hunting I knew I didn’t want a Raised Ranch or some of you call it a split entry. But that is what we got and I had to make the most of it. At the top of the stairs was a typical raised ranch iron railing. I hated it. I felt …