Spring Home Maintenance Tips

    For quite some time now, I’ve been getting Backwoods Home monthly newsletter. They usually have a few interesting recipes in there, some cute jokes and even some really great woodworking plans from time to time. In this month’s newsletter, they have some...

    Another great stencil site

    Yeah, I know, you’re getting sick of reading about stencils already…but I came across another site with some interesting stencils that just might work for our shutters.This flower stencil from Stencil Planet which I think could look really nice. 7.5 in x 5...
    What to do about the back splash

    What to do about the back splash

    When we went to IKEA on Saturday, we stopped by the sample kitchen with Fagerland, the name of our kitchen fronts, just to see what they had done in there. What we saw we really liked. They had a white counter top and shiny white tiles with an ornate border running...

    Helping out around the house

    Yesterday, we decided to start painting out bathroom door, the first of many doors in the house which will be repainted. We didn’t want to take it all the way out to the barn so we laid it across the bathtub to paint it there. But keeping the dog out of the room...

    The best stencil site ever

    I was browsing the web yesterday, trying to find some inspiration about what we should put on our shutters when we repaint them. Now that we now we can get the color matched that is currently on there at Hornbach, we just have to decide what we want them to look like...
    A new kind of sticker collection

    A new kind of sticker collection

    Here’s something not necessarily new but pretty interesting. Nouvelles USA offers wall decor stickers in all sorts of designs. From flowers to animals to frames, they have a collection of large stickers for an interesting alternative to the usual framed art. You...