Yup, I'm still plugging away at the kitchen! I'm wrapping up trim, and then I'll be able to do After shots of the whole room for you. But I wanted to dedicate a post to this kitchen door project because it's been a lot of work and it made a big impact. The door I'm [...]
Shortly after we moved in, I bought a used IKEA cart from a friend and that's been our toaster and coffee station ever since. It did the job well and looked okay, but it was too narrow to balance out the width of the cabinet above it. I knew I'd want to replace it with [...]
I dove into my kitchen makeover this past month and knocked out three things that already have me liking the space a lot more: a new faucet, cabinet hardware, and window moulding. Faucet Our previous faucet had a leak that was getting progressively worse: the water would only shut off when the handle was turned [...]
No preamble; let’s do this! Here are 3 big things I want to get done in 2018. 1. Fix Up the Staircase You’ve seen this central staircase in previous posts (e.g. our half bathroom). What you haven’t seen in great detail is what poor shape it’s in! The balusters have 100 years of paint glommed onto [...]
This post details how I customized an IKEA SILVERÅN vanity for our newly-remodeled half-bathroom. Because this powder room is in a visible spot on our first floor, I wanted a vanity that looked like a piece of furniture we'd have elsewhere in the house. As I mentioned in my Bathroom Decision Making post, I was unable to [...]
Project Palermo 