Whether you have just moved in or have lived in your current place for years, there are always ways you can improve your house with a few house projects (DIY or hire a contractor). The big question is which home improvement ideas are worth it. To me, these are the projects that have dramatic impacts. …
How to paint stairs can mean a variety of different things such as the painting the banister, spindles, risers or even the stair walls. Deciding what to paint depends on the overall look you are going for and what condition your stairs are in to start with. Since stairs are such a focal point in …
It can be really hard to find good corner decorating ideas. Every house has that awkward corner that you just don’t know what do with. We had a lot of corner spaces in our house especially in our living room or just on our first floor. So, I got a lot of practice trying to …
Painting a brick fireplace white may seem like a daunting task but it actually turned out to be extremely easy. With the right type of paint, you can paint your fireplace so that it lasts for years without a single chip. After painting what felt like every inch of our house including all the trim …
Pantry organization is key to having effective kitchen storage and the reason behind why we ended up with DIY pull out pantry shelves to gain more effective storage. Our original pantry had a poorly designed organizational system that needed to be removed. However, we didn’t want to just add shelves. Based on the dimensions of …
When we moved into our house, I was overwhelmed by how much oak wood was in the house. The floors, trim, windows, doors, stairs were all oak. The cabinets in the kitchen and every bathroom cabinet was oak. There was no color to break up the oak and it made the space look outdated, dark …
When we moved into our new house a few weeks ago, one of the very first things we wanted to change was the lighting situation in the bedrooms. All the bedrooms had no overhead lighting. Instead, they all had an outlet on a switch so you could plug a lamp in. We really wanted overhead …