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Epic Family Pics with McClanahan Studio
Nick and I have been talking for awhile now, how we need need to get family pictures taken again. Life just kinda gets away from us, and our kids are growing soooo fast. *insert weeping emoji* The last family pics we had taken were when Cypress was just a baby, and SISTER IS 4 NOW, sooooo... Some friends of ours, Dan and Alex McClanahan, own McClanahan Studio in Ames, IA. Dan's dad was ... [ Read More ]
Cleaning Closet Organization
One thing I've noticed about myself through this renovation, is that I NEED to have places in my house that are extremely neat and organized... to give myself some sense of control in the midst of absolute chaos. Even if it's the girls' bedroom or little nooks here and there. Mandatory. So when I was chatting with my friends at National Hardware about the Marie Kondo craze and all things ... [ Read More ]
Kitchen updates – Insulation!
We're coming up on a year of owning this house. We never dreamed that the kitchen would take this long to complete, but we've settled in to the no-kitchen lifestyle (AKA camping in our own house) and I'm not complaining. Our ancestors didn't have running water or electricity, so I think I can handle cooking in a crockpot and doing dishes with 5-gallon buckets of water from the bathtub until ... [ Read More ]
Looking Back at 2018
Well folks... 2018 was one for the books. Every year, between Christmas and New Years, I set aside some time to look back through a year's worth of blog posts and projects and gather them up in one happy/tidy post. Kind of like a recap of the whole year. In doing so this time around, I was shocked by just how much we squeezed into a single year. Sometimes it feels like we bit off more than ... [ Read More ]
Kitchen Update – Framing and Design Plans
I TOLD you I wouldn't leave you hanging too long after our last kitchen update post. Things seem to be happening fast now (it's about time), and it's so exciting to see things start to come together! Last time we left you off with this concrete kitchen hole situation. There was a trench around the outside of this basement that needed to be filled. We lovingly referred to it as 'THE ... [ Read More ]
Painting your kitchen cabinets IN A WEEKEND
I have to admit, between the 'renovations' we're doing at the new house, and the updates we're making at the old house to get it ready to put on the market, I'm finding it hard to find time to sit down and actually WRITE A DARN BLOG POST about the things that are being accomplished. Also, that was a run-on sentence. But I keep reading it to try and figure out how to divide it up, and I just ... [ Read More ]
Kitchen Update – DEMO
It's been a minute since we talked about what's going on at the new house. It seems like we have so much to do that it would actually be counterproductive to stop and take the time to write about it. BUT, I don't want to leave you guys hanging, and I want an account of how all this went down so we can look back on it over the years. When we first announced that we bought a house and will be ... [ Read More ]
Closet Organizer Ideas for Maximizing Space
I’ve found that my organizing blog posts for closets have been hot topics that people need help with. Being a closet organizer doesn’t come naturally to everyone, and THAT’S OKAY! We live in a old house with small closets, so I’ve had to learn some tricks for maximizing closet space, containing clutter, and creating unique closet organizer ideas. I’m going to share a few of my own ideas, along ... [ Read More ]
New Tile Backsplash in the kitchen!
When we shared the final reveal of our kitchen, there was one thing about it that I wasn’t 100% happy with. If you’re thinking it was the fact that I painted my cabinets chartreuse, you’d be wrong. It was the backsplash. Installing a backsplash wasn't a priority, and I grew to regret that decision. You might remember that I have a thing for painting backsplashes to LOOK like tile, and this ... [ Read More ]