Thank you First Alert OneLink for sponsoring this post. Onelink Safe & Sound – Meet Your Family’s New Best Friend. #ONELINKSTORY I’m always looking for ways to make my home more peaceful, secure, and beautiful, and I just found a new way with Onelink Safe & Sound! We recently installed one in our house, and the whole family loves it, all for different reasons. Onelink Safe & Sound My new Safe & Sound gives me peace of mind with its intelligent smoke & carbon monoxide alarm with remote notifications. If something were to happen, even while I’m not at home, it would notify me on my phone. That’s in addition to… Keep Reading
Yardistry 12×14 Gazebo Installation Tips
‘Tis the season to get outside! This is the time of year it starts feeling like summer, even though officially it’s still spring. Which means it’s time to get outside before it gets too hot to enjoy it! I can’t wait to share this post with you today as part of Remodelaholic’s Get Out! Outdoor DIY Challenge. We haven’t done much to our backyard since moving in two years ago, but this summer that’s all about to change. As much as I love interior decor, I also love to get outside and enjoy the amazing Albuquerque weather as often as possible. When you get about 300 days of sunshine a… Keep Reading
What I Wish I’d Known about Double Barn Doors
Today I’m taking a break from my Flip House posts, because I’m just so excited to share this with you that I couldn’t wait. We got barn doors! Now, I know I’m not the first girl ever to put barn doors in her house, but this is something I’ve been wanting to do for years, and when we moved into this house, I knew just where I’d put them. Then it was just a matter of getting a few other priorities taken care of before we could get to this project. But it’s finally done, and they turned out even better than I imagined! First, here’s the before: These accordion… Keep Reading
The Trick to Baseboards
Whether you’re cleaning, caulking, or painting them, baseboards deserve a special place in the homeowner’s hall of shame. I’ve never met anyone who really enjoys doing their baseboards, and I’m not going to attempt to change that with one blog post. What I AM going to do is share with you a little trick to make the job easier on your knees and your back. Who knows, maybe if it weren’t such a pain to clean them, I’d do it more often? (I hope you realize I was laughing at myself even as I wrote that last sentence.) The trick to baseboards is one little tool that you’re not going to find… Keep Reading