A few years ago, we installed a clothespin under our kitchen cabinets to hold recipes and keep them out of messy ingredients while cooking... because who likes crusty recipe cards? It served it’s purpose for a good long time! As time has worn on and technology advances, we now need to keep our tablets out of the mess. Amiright? Pulling up a recipe on your iPad and bringing it to the kitchen ... [ Read More ]
Dry Erase Chalkboard Calendar… Fun, Funky, Functional and FABULOUS!
I know many of you are new (ish) to our blog, and it’s easy for me to forget and assume that you remember every post and every project since the beginning of time Sawdust and Embryos. So in the interest of getting you up so speed on our kitchen calendar situation… let’s start from the beginning! The walls in our kitchen have no texture, so we thought it would be so fun to make a calendar out of ... [ Read More ]
How to paint a backsplash!
I'm going to teach you how to PAINT your backsplash to look like actual tile! There are SO many possibilities... with pattern, color combination, etc. This is a great option of you're not ready to commit to the permanency of tile (or the cost, or messy installation). I decided to paint over our backsplash (that I painted the very first week we lived in this house). This is what it looked ... [ Read More ]
may I brag for a moment?
Want to know what’s awesome? My IT man (and fine-piece-of-meat-husband) figured out a way to add a ‘Pin It’ button at the bottom of each post! (You have to select the post, not just be on the main page. For example… click on the title above, and scroll down to the bottom of the post for the Pin It button!)This is super cool because it saves you a step when you’re wanting to pin a project to refer ... [ Read More ]
Pantry Shelving and Stenciling
I've been torn about whether or not to share the progress that we've made on our pantry transformation, because it won't truly be complete for a long lonnnnnng time. What? I never mentioned that we're doing anything to the pantry? That's probably because it was really impulsive. And was supposed to be a quick little update. You see, I've been begging Nick to put up a couple shelves above the ... [ Read More ]
New Additions to the Kitchen ~ Garage Sale Updates!
Ok, like a year ago... I got this little shelf at a garage sale. It was one of those sales that's in a warehouse and you pay $5 bucks at the door for a garbage bag, and you can fill it with whatever you want! All for $5! Silly me wasted a ton of room in my bag for this unfortunate little homely shelfy-hook thing. I came home, painted it white, and it hung in a closet holding the girls' bathing ... [ Read More ]
Kitchen: Before and After
We've been 'gently' reminded by several readers that we never actually posted before and after pictures of our kitchen. I think the reason for this was in part because our kitchen reveal post was already excessively long and jam-packed with pictures, I didn't want to bog it up with the tacky before pictures.Luckily, after some searching, I was able to dig up pictures of the kitchen from WAY back ... [ Read More ]
Budget Kitchen Updates! {Accent Wall and Faux Painted Backsplash!}
The daunting lighting situation was finally resolved and cleaned up, and I had a glimmer of an idea to paint something special on this one wall! I toyed around with lots of different ideas. But in the end, I decided on this subtle swirly pattern. I chose flat paint for this one wall, and bought the same color (Pittsburgh Paints in Deep Emerald) in high gloss... I'm sure you could use a clear ... [ Read More ]
Kitchen Lighting
Here's the story on how our kitchen painting project turned into what felt like a demolition and remodel:I came home from work one evening and decided to finish painting the kitchen Dark Teal!! It was just dark enough outside that I couldn't paint without the kitchen light on. But when I flipped it on... NOTHING HAPPENED. This happens about 50% of the time with our tacky fluorescent central ... [ Read More ]