There can be few things more exciting than building your new home. It is also quite a daunting task, with so many decisions and choices to think about. The windows and doors are certainly there in the decision making basket, but you might not realize just how significant a chunk of your budget they can

Replacing the lighting fixtures in your home shouldn’t be last on your “to-do” list. What amateur renovators generally do is remodel, repaint and replace the furniture, completely forgetting to trash their out-of-date lighting. It doesn’t matter how elegant the sitting room is with its paired wingback chairs or how spacious the tub may be. If

This weekend we set out to build a sand box for the kids, in a quest to make the back yard more of a destination for fun through the summer months. Quickly realizing that we were going to build something, the kids threw around ideas for an alternative to a sandbox, and settled on a

You know how you see something, and wonder, “How have we never thought about this?” That happened to us this weekend as we walked through ten show homes, still searching for the one. I think we may have found it! While we were walking through, we happened upon a girls bedroom that included one of

Around here, when it comes to birthday decorations I don’t make a trip to the party store. I’m more likely to stop in the card section of Target to see what kind of new tissue paper they have in stock, because everyone knows all of the best decorations can be made from tissue paper. You

We’ve never had any problems getting the kids into the bath tub when it comes time around here. In fact, it’s the opposite. The kids love baths and the products that come along with it. With winter right around the corner and dryer weather in the mix I wanted to incorporate the fun of bath

Browsing through the Pottery Barn website, I’ve been lusting after the chalkboards for the kids to practice their writing and numbers, drawing and spending hours just creating together in front of it (a mom can dream, right?) However, I wasn’t lusting after the $200 price tag that came with the chalkboard. I decided to take

When it comes to birthday decorations, I generally avoid the ‘character themed’ stuff. Not only is it expensive, but the impersonal designs just aren’t as fantastic as the DIY decor that you can do for a fraction of the price. This is one my favorite things that we’ve made for Olivia’s party and it took