Our stairs get a beating every day all day long. We’ve broken a few spindles along the way swinging and wrestling and throwing furniture (a story way too long to tell!). This is what our staircase looks like There are a few broken spindles, the railings have been beaten up and are dirty. The kind […]
Month: May 2012
WINDOW DRESSINGS ~ for the kitchen
I’ve been keeping my eyes out for a curtain that would fit beautifully in my new bright green kitchen. So far NO LUCK! I saw these roman shades on Pinterest and fell in love Source: BHG The LOML and I were walking through Walmart looking for GREEN accent pieces for the kitchen. I found these cute […]
A NEW POST ~ or should I say newel post
When I clicked on the button “New Post” to write this new post, I giggled because this post is about two newel posts we added to our kitchen island today. We bought two newel posts from Lowe’s (they are the ones used for the bottom of staircase railings) Sons #3 & #4 primed and painted each post […]
OUR KITCHEN TABLE ~ and art project?!
We bought our kitchen table about ten years ago from a nearby naked furniture store. It was my first attempt at staining and varnishing furniture. I had so much fun, I’m still doing it today! It’s a perfect square shape for the eating space in the room and it fits all eight of us very […]
CORBELS ~ an awesome addition to any kitchen!
After we finished the desk portion of the kitchen (you can read about that here), it dawned on us rocket scientists that we forgot to install the corbels before we finished the top trim. In a perfect world, we would have installed the corbels to butt up against the beadboard backsplash, then cut the trim to […]
MEN ARE FROM MARS….~women are shafted!
In my last post , I told you about my Nutrisystem diet plan. I’ve been following it pretty well (except for eating out a couple of times and I ate small portions) ~ eating the menu plan, drinking lots of water, exercising regulary. This is my fifth day of torture dieting, and I haven’t lost a single […]