After we completed our kitchen redo, the kitchen table stuck out like a soar thumb! I bought our table about ten years ago at a naked furniture store. I stained it a honey oak to match the rest of the kitchen. I added a few coats of polyurethane and it was beautiful. Through the years, […]
Author: Linda
GREAT IDEAS ~ but a different outcome!
“THE BEST LAID PLANS” As I try to finish all the projects that are bouncing around in my head, I find that they usually end up completely different than I imagined them. Good or bad, it adds a little stress, but makes me use my imagination (and sometime google) to figure out other ways […]
KITCHEN CHECKLIST
KITCHEN CHECKLIST I wanted to share our checklist and cost for all the improvements we did to our kitchen. Thank you for all the kind comments! Y’all are amazing!If you want to see pictures, just click on the link and it will bring you to the post.Thanks again for making this journey so much fun!! […]
HOME SWEET HOME ~ welcome to the Louies!
I want something welcoming and charming in my freshly painted foyer. I want it to be colorful and clever. Am I asking too much? I DON’T THINK SO!! I found this adorable idea for stacked planters at the Diggers List Blog. Here is a picture but if you’d like to know how they did it just […]
SANDING, SANDING ~ and more sanding!!
In my last post, I showed y’all the cute little Goodwill table I found. Here’s a little reminder: Well, I want to paint this table and my kitchen table seen here: So, I got my “workers” to sand both pieces for me: The kids were GREAT sanding and sweating and sanding some more. The reward……..a […]
GOOD WILL FINDS ~ break out the paint!
We had to drop Daughter #2 off at a birthday party this afternoon so we had two hours to waste before going and picking her back up so…. …..off to Goodwill we went! I am not normally a Goodwill kind of girl…I know, snobby right? I don’t have the patience to rustle through bins of […]