Home Decor diY

Hey there! We've had a busy week soaking up some summer activities…our time off is coming to a close soon. This week alone we visited the Indy Children's Museum, explored downtown, saw a movie and took a trip to Kings Island. Such a blast but I'm ready to relax a bit today! (If you are interested in visiting our fun city, check out this post and this one for my tips and our favorite places.)  I'm back today with a quick and easy project that I finished up in the loft last week. I'm pretty excited about it! Last time I shared this space I had this empty space above the window seat :  I've known all along exactly what I wanted to put there -- a gift wrap station. :) I'm all about form and function and I knew this would be cute and serve a purpose in this space.  I hardly spent anything on this because I used old trim from this room for the frame. You can definitely put this directly on the wall but I wanted to make a little bit more of a statement and I had

OK, well I lied. ;) I said I wasn't going to share more of the loft redo for a week or so but I was a beast this weekend. I mean, BEAST. We didn't have much planned so it was great to have tons of time to dedicate to this space. I made some major progress that I'll share with you this week.  My goal was to have this space done by the time school starts and my time is quickly dwindling. I'm going to try really hard to get it done but I doubt it will happen -- I lose four days out of town for a conference. Who knows? Maybe I'll pull it off. None of the remaining projects are hard, they're just busy work.  SO. Last I left you, I had installed the baseboards throughout most of the room, including the window seat:  Here's a view of the other side:  My first project was to trim that seat out with the same trim I use all over our house. I seriously use this stuff everywhere . It's called sometimes called lattice and it's very thin. I always get pine:  Menar

What's up and happy Friday! I've got a quick post for you today with an item I've been meaning to share with you for some time because we love it so much.  I was reminded of it when I shared this photo of our kitchen earlier this week:  It's the outlet on the side of the island, but it's not just any outlet. It's an awesome outlet. ;)  First up, I know it bothers some of you that the outlet is white on the dark island. Honestly I don't even notice it -- it doesn't bug me. I've tried painting outlets before and they always end up getting scratched up and become a mess, especially one like this that we use so often.  If it was a regular outlet it would be easy to change out to a darker one (but nothing matches this dark gray anyway), but as I said, this one is special. ;) There are two usb plugs in addition to the regular plugs:  So you can make any spot with an outlet into a charging area -- with no plugs. It's crazy convenient, no more searching

I've been hard at work in the loft but as it seems to go during this stage, it doesn't look like a whole lot of work has been done. I'm showing you anyway because I'm excited about it. ;) After this it may be a bit before I share this room again because I have a couple smaller projects (trimming out the window and the window seat) to do, then next big one is continuing to plank the walls around the room, including the window wall and the hallway.  I was a bit giddy the other day when I started actually putting stuff away. Everything has been in a huge pile for months now and it was starting to make me itch. The window seat has three large spaces with separate doors:  I couldn't have planned this better! I mean, everything fits so well, with some room to spare. Lurve. Those doors still need hinges but it's functional for now. I will not be painting the inside by the way -- I never paint the insides of cabinets or seats.  I built up the rest of the cabinets and i

HEY there! What a fun weekend that was! I ended up getting a ton more done in the loft last night -- all of the cabinets are built up and installed and that was a BIG job. I also got everything put away in the cabinets and seat storage -- it is glorious! I have room to spare, whoot! Today I hope to work on baseboards and trimming out the window seat and maybe the window itself as well. I'm totally digging that space and it's really starting to match the vision I had all these years! I have said it a million times, but I find when I really take my time and let the ideas develop in my head the spaces come out better than I could have hoped. One of the rooms where that showed the most was our kitchen renovation that I completed last fall. I've been meaning to update you on some of the key pieces and since we've lived with it for about nine months now, I figured this would be a good time. This renovation took me almost a year -- in the summer I'm usually a sloth so no