Fun FAQ’s: Dreamy Light Up Headboard This month, I’m taking a little break from new projects to go back and answer some great questions about old projects. Sometimes I don’t know whether I’ve written a good tutorial until you write to me with all your questions, and I figure out how much information I left out. It seems only fair to go back and answer those questions and fill in some of the holes. (Last week I covered our painted kitchen cabinets, so be sure to check out that post if you’re thinking of painting yours.) I built this dreamy lit headboard out of curtains and Christmas lights almost four… Keep Reading
I Love the After: The Big Reveal of our Latest Flip
I have good news and bad news. The bad news is I’m not writing a progress post on our flip house like I had planned for this week. The good news is because it’s turned into a reveal post! Yep, we’re done. This sweet little home is on the market, ready and waiting for its next family. I loved working on our first flip house, but this one has brought me even more creative joy than that one did. I don’t know why, but some houses just capture your heart, and this one did just that. Maybe it was the moment my daughter christened it “The Birthday Cake House” (y’all… Keep Reading
$100 Room Challenge Reveal – Growing Girl’s Bedroom
Tween Girl’s Bedroom Makeover It’s reveal week for the $100 Room Challenge! Reveal week is always my favorite, partly because I love to see a fun project come together, but also partly because of the enormous sense of relief I feel after the final push to get everything done. I can’t wait to show you my growing girl’s bedroom makeover! Before we get into the good stuff, I want to say a big Thank You to Erin of Lemons, Lavender, and Laundry for hosting this challenge, and giving me the deadline I needed so I could finally get this room done! ~This post contains affiliate links. If you make a… Keep Reading
Dip-Dyed Ombre Curtain Makeover – $100 Room Challenge
For this week’s $100 Room Challenge update, I’m sharing with you one of my favorite projects, ombre dip-dying. I use this dip-dye method for several of the tea towels in my Etsy shop (which are all unfortunately sold out at the moment), but it’s really an easy project you can do yourself. (Check out week 1 and week 2 to see where we’re coming from!) My daughter likes her white curtains, and I do too, but I thought they needed something a little more interesting to make them less boring. The ombre effect will let us leave most of the fabric white, while adding just enough color to tie in… Keep Reading
Ceiling Fan Makeover – $100 Room Challenge
When I started working on my daughter’s bedroom for the $100 Room Challenge, I knew the first thing that had to go was that awful ceiling fan. (I think I referred to it as “the brass monstrosity” in my last post.) But with only $100 to makeover a whole bedroom, that didn’t leave a whole lot of budget for a new light fixture. No problem, I’m used to working with tight budgets and ugly light fixtures! I had never done a ceiling fan before, so this was a challenge I was excited to try. If you’re just joining, be sure to check out last week’s post with my plans for… Keep Reading
$100 Room Challenge: Growing Girl’s Bedroom Makeover
It’s time for another $100 Room Challenge! If you remember during the last challenge, I redid our guest bathroom, and learned just how quickly $100 and four weeks can fly by. This time, I gave myself a new challenge to work a little DIY magic on my growing girl’s bedroom makeover. I love the idea of using what you have, getting creative, and putting in a little elbow grease to transform a space for very little money. So when Erin of Lemons Lavender & Laundry asked if we wanted to do another challenge, I already knew which room I’d be taking on. My 10-year-old daughter has been asking me since… Keep Reading
The Flip House is Finally Finished!
This flip house has been such a fun project that I almost hate to see it come to an end. Then I remember that it’s not all about the fun decorating, it’s mostly about the fun profits! *She thought, offering up a quick prayer for those profits to actually happen.* We set out to do a 6 week flip, and of course it turned into about 9 weeks. But we learned a lot along the way. Mostly what we learned was how to stay out of our contractor’s way so he could do his job. (If you’re in Albuquerque and looking for a good contractor, message me. I have the… Keep Reading
Dreamy Light-up Headboard
One of the questions I often get asked on the blog is “How did you make that lit headboard in your Budget Bedroom Makeover?” So today, I’m spilling all my insider secrets to you with a full tutorial. ~This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I will receive a tiny bit of the profit at no extra cost to you. Thanks for your support!~ First, here are a couple of pictures to remind you what it looks like in the room, during the day: And at night: We did this in our bedroom makeover to save both money and space. Our bedroom isn’t very large and our furniture felt… Keep Reading
Master Suite Makeover
Sometimes interior designing is glamorous and fun, and sometimes it can be filled with drudgery and indecision. Recently, I made the tough decision to close my design business so I can be more available to my kids, and instead focus on this blog since it allows me to be creative and get my hands dirty with design projects, while still being able to stay home with a sick kid if needed. So, with a heavy heart, I took on one last design project with one of my favorite clients, Angie. I love working with Angie because she has great taste and doesn’t hesitate to make decisions. Truly, she made most of… Keep Reading
6 Steps to Turn your Bedroom into a Retreat
You know that feeling you get when you go on vacation, check into your hotel, and immediately feel a sense of luxury as you sink into the hotel bed? You start cancelling plans because you just want to lay on that bed and revel in the knowledge that you don’t have to do a thing. Well, that’s what I do anyway. My kids, not so much. They could care less about the room, they just want to hit the pool and the snack machines. (What is it about hotel snack machines that’s so intriguing to kids? They don’t get half as excited about all the very same snacks in our… Keep Reading