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Wood Wall Art Challenge Roundup

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A couple weeks ago, Nick and I hosted a big ol' collaboration involving a TON of other makers, bloggers, and YouTubers called the Wood Wall Art Challenge. It was SO FUN! Everyone made their own unique wooden artwork, and the creativity was so inspiring! The only parameters were that the art be square (but any size!) and be made of 'mostly wood'. We've never been accused of being legalistic. I ... [ Read More ]

Storage Baskets on a Ladder in Three Tiers

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I’m a sucker for unique and space-saving organization, so the idea of storing things vertically just makes sense! I’ve been thinking about different ideas for storing games, blocks and toys in our living room that would be inconspicuous yet allow the children to easily access them. And these storage baskets are what we came up with! After making this, I’m realizing that there are SO MANY ... [ Read More ]

Wood and Mirror Geometric 3D Wall Art

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You know from this post and this post that we’re huge fans of wood art and making wood LOOK like 3D wall art! Nick had a brilliant idea to make a patterned ‘3D-illusion’ art that incorporates pieces of MIRROR! We were having so much fun making this piece that we decided to invite some buildy-blogger (and YouTuber!) friends to join in! We challenged them to create a piece of art with only two ... [ Read More ]

DIY Home Bar

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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

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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 ]

How to build a Sliding Barn Door

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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 ]

How to Install Chunky Crown Molding

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If you’ve been around our blog for the past year or so, you know we recently did a room makeover in our master bedroom! It was long overdue, and now that it’s done I can’t believe we waited so long! It’s one of my favorite rooms in our house! We’ve been getting questions about installing crown molding (or is it spelled ‘moulding’?) to be SO BEEFY and chunky; which is a valid question... because it ... [ Read More ]

How to Build DIY Floating Shelves

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This past weekend, we were ‘refreshing’ and rearranging DIY floating shelves in our upstairs bathroom, and remembering how bleak and cave-like this area above the toilet once was. Remember this? *this post contains affiliate links* Adding chunky white DIY floating shelves above the toilet was a game changer for this small bathroom’s style AND function. I went back into our blog archives to find ... [ Read More ]

Convertible Kids Craft Table–Free Building Plans!

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Y’all, this winter hasn’t been kind to us. We’ve had pneumonia, tonsillitis, bronchitis, laryngitis, and ear infections sweep through our home, as well as 3 separate rounds of pink eye. We can’t catch a break! Projects have been slow moving around here, but Nick and I have mustered enough energy to drag our booties out to the woodshop here and there and throw around some sawdust. Our most recent ... [ Read More ]

Alcohol Dyed Wood Turned Bowl

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Howdy my good friends! Did anyone get a lathe for Christmas? We’ve got a fun new tutorial for ya. And even if you don’t have a lathe, it’s so fun to watch this one come together on the time-lapse video below! We tried a new wood-dying technique to add some color and pattern to the wood grain of plain ol’ pine, and turn it on the lathe to make a super unique bowl! Would you believe this bowl ... [ Read More ]

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