One last kitchen post before we never have to talk about this project again. Since this was our first attempt at tiling, I wanted to share our process for tiling a backsplash with tile mat and give you our SimpleMat review. There were pros and cons for using tile mat instead of traditional mortar, but we’ll get to that in a minute.
Keep ReadingTiling a Backsplash with Tile Mat: A SimpleMat Review
One Room Challenge Week Six: DIY Kitchen Makeover Reveal
Pop the pink wine, fam! The DIY kitchen makeover reveal is finally here! If you remember where we left off last week, a LOT of things still needed to happen. The lower boxes needed to be primed and painted, the lower door hardware needed to be installed (including jury-rigging a few of the latches), the island needed to be assembled, a light needed to be installed, and we needed to install the backsplash. Just a few things! But, we did it!
Keep ReadingOne Room Challenge Week Five: Cleaning Original Hinges and Installing New Hardware
TBH guys, Week Five has me a little crazed! Turns out when you only work on a project of this size like three days a week for a month, the last week is pretty hectic! COOL! Today’s update is all about cleaning original hinges and installing our new knobs, pulls, and latches. Let’s start with the activity that led to my biggest misstep of the project: cleaning original hinges.
Keep ReadingOne Room Challenge Week Four: How to Paint Cabinets
Today I want to walk you through the most time-consuming part of this kitchen refresh: painting the cabinets. In fact, I’m not even done with it, that’s how much time it takes! I mean, potentially, I could have been done by now if I hadn’t decided to rewatch all of season one of Westworld, but who can really say? Anyways, here’s a step-by-step look at how to paint cabinets featuring some subpar iPhone photos.
Keep ReadingOne Room Challenge Week Three: Let’s Organize!
It’s week three of my kitchen One Room Challenge and I am deep in the land of prepping, priming, and painting cabinets. I’m hoping to have a full rundown of that process ready for you next week, but in the meantime, I thought I’d share what I’ve been thinking about while literally watching paint dry.
Keep ReadingOne Room Challenge Week Two: Making Choices
Well, I can definitively say there’s nothing like posting before pictures and committing publicly to a tight timeline to light a fire under me! This past week saw some great progress on my kitchen One Room Challenge project and I think we’ve finally nailed down most of the decisions. Let’s get into the details.
Keep ReadingOne Room Challenge Week One: The Kitchen Before
It’s One Room Challenge time once again! Last spring, Robin overhauled her deck in just six weeks. This year, I’m taking on the challenge. So, welcome to the before of my kitchen One Room Challenge!
Keep ReadingOne Room Challenge Week 6: A Rental Friendly Outdoor Deck Renovation
It’s week 6 of the One Room Challenge! I’m shocked we’re already at the reveal! This is the fun part guys! The rental friendly outdoor deck renovation came together so nicely (in my heavily biased opinion). It’s warm and inviting and finally maximizing every inch of the deck as best we can.
Keep ReadingOne Room Challenge Week 5: DIY Outdoor Movie Theater
It’s week 5 of the One Room Challenge and I can see the finish line from here! This week was all about setting up the projector and home theater. A friend of mine kindly gave me his projector about a year ago and it has sat untouched for 12 months—that makes a whole year sound better, right? But now we can …
Keep ReadingOne Room Challenge Week 4: Cornhole DIY
It’s week four of the One Room Challenge! This week it was all hands on deck as I attempted to build my own cornhole DIY. First, let me say if you’re not a midwesterner (or went to college there) you may not appreciate the thrill that is cornhole. And in fact, Wikipedia says, “The West-Side of Cincinnati, Ohio is considered one of …
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