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Attic Family Room Reveal!

April 2, 2018 by Bethany Sy

If you’ve been around for the process of our Attic Family Room Makeover, you know that it’s been SUCH a fun process! And you’ve seen sneak previews here and there of some of the finished areas of this space. But today I’m sharing the FULL REVEAL! You have no idea how excited I am to finally show you everything! But before we get too far into this, I’ve got to give credit where it’s due. I ... [ Read More ]

Decor Faves from Wayfair

April 1, 2018 by Bethany Sy

Even though we love to roll up our sleeves and have designed/DIY’d most of the projects in our Family Room Attic space, we love the concept of having a combination of ‘made’ and ‘purchased’ pieces to truly create the vibe we’re going for.  I was so excited when Wayfair wanted to partner with me on this Attic Family Room space. This post is sponsored by Wayfair. Thank you for supporting the ... [ Read More ]

Vintage Bar Cart Makeover

March 27, 2018 by Bethany Sy

My dad just informed me that it’s not called a vintage bar cart …it’s a metal rolling utility cart. Isn’t that precious? Those baby boomers.   It’s been a little over a year since both of my Grandma’s passed away, 3 weeks apart. It was a tough month for sure. And since then, I’ve been loving have some of my Grannies’ things around my house that bring me joy and remind me of them. One ... [ Read More ]

DIY Home Bar

March 16, 2018 by Bethany Sy

As you know, we’ve been making some headway in our attic family room. It’s come soooooo far! Remember when it looked like THIS?! WOOF, that pistachio green and poop-brown couch has me breaking out in hives. You can scroll back through the various projects we’ve done in the attic to see the progression to what it is now. We’re so happy with how it’s coming along! Part of the struggle ... [ Read More ]

Leaf-Shaped Modern Nesting Tables

March 13, 2018 by Bethany Sy

Sometimes when I’m out and about shopping with a friend (or my toddler), I’ll see something I love but could TOTALLY make myself. For example, I saw these little tables that are nesting tables shaped like leaves at IKEA! I loved them. But I felt like the price tag was steep… almost laughable. And not only that, I knew I could make them even better. I’m sure you know what happens next. *This ... [ Read More ]

Installing Sliding Barn Door Hardware

March 7, 2018 by Bethany Sy

Y'all, I had NO IDEA how these barn doors would transform this attic space! Having two wide-open closets puking out all of our off-season junk was subconsciously strangling me. And I hadn't considered barn doors until recently, because I naively thought that you had to have wall space off to the side of the doorway for the barn door to slide. NOT SO! After doing some research, we learned ... [ Read More ]

How to build a Sliding Barn Door

March 2, 2018 by Bethany Sy

Hey buddies! We have an awesome building project for you today. We're building sliding BARN DOORS! This is going to be a two-part series; the first sharing how to build the barn door, and the second will be talking about barn door hardware and installation in our attic family room! We started out in the lumber isle at our local hardware store. We're building 4 doors to fit our needs, so that's ... [ Read More ]

Brick Veneer Accent Wall in Attic

December 28, 2017 by Bethany Sy

Our attic ‘family room’ space has been on the forefront of our minds lately, and we’ve been pouring over the different floor plan ideas that our friends at Modsy helped us with (our 20% coupon code is still good for another week! Enter REALITY20 at checkout). Nick and I have been making lists of things we want to DIY, as well as things we plan to buy for this space. See more pics of our attic ... [ Read More ]

Attic Progress and Room Layout

December 12, 2017 by Bethany Sy

A couple months ago, we chatted with you about our wide-open attic space and how much potential it has to be an AMAZING family space / game room! You might remember how we painted the walls white (because pistachio green wasn’t doing it for us), and got our sweet vintage sectional couch reupholstered. This is what it looked like before… And this is what it looks like now… *This ... [ Read More ]

A start on the attic…

August 24, 2017 by Bethany Sy

Howdy friends! For those of you that follow along on our Facebook page, you know we’ve been working on making a sheet of wood veneer into a lampshade, as evidenced by this awkward Facebook LIVE of me staining flowers onto the wood veneer (I put on makeup for you. And a bra), as well as this Facebook LIVE when Nick hijacked my Facebook page and did a live broadcast of himself demonstrating how ... [ Read More ]

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