A budget-friendly option for customizing furniture to work in any space using unfinished, solid wood pre-built pieces & staining an office work table. We finally have a proper desk in the home office. It’s a small thing that makes a big difference when you spend time working from home. After searching for an affordable, large … Read more

If you’ve followed our laundry room updates, you know we’re ready to give this hardworking space a real transformation. The room isn’t huge, so every inch must be purposeful. Because laundry rooms demand function first (with a healthy dose of style), we planned carefully before making any changes. We decided to use IKEA laundry room … Read more

How to make your own light-up creepy Halloween art using a thrift-store picture frame for macabre wall decor. This quick Halloween wall art project proves that grabbing a $5 picture frame at a thrift store and holding onto it for the right idea pays off. With just a few supplies and a little time, you … Read more

How I Revived a Vintage Cane Headboard and Finished a Cozy Guest Bedroom One of the trickiest finds for our guest bedroom makeover was a vintage cane headboard. After weeks of thrifting and searching through secondhand apps, I finally scored a perfect piece on eBay. It was the right shape and style for the room, … Read more

The best way to clean a fabric sofa in 7 steps without solvent-based cleaners + a DIY sofa-cleaning solution to make upholstery bright and fresh. Cleaning a fabric sofa can feel like a big chore—right up there with oven scrubbing and deep bathroom cleaning—but the payoff is worth it. A thorough cleaning refreshes the upholstery, … Read more

Psst… there’s a giveaway at the end of this post. If you’re the kind of person who walks through a house imagining it dressed for the holidays, you’ll understand why this little decorating project made me so excited. The very first time I saw our house, I pictured it laden with fresh-looking greenery and cozy … Read more

A few months ago I scored a dining table for $100 from a local buy/sell group. It didn’t arrive looking like the finished version you see here — the top was covered in worn yellow paint and, after sanding, revealed that it was actually MDF, not real hardwood. It gouged easily and didn’t clean up … Read more

A roundup of top-rated faux plants for porches, decks, and patios — plus how to style them so they read as real foliage. I’ll let you in on a little secret: I use artificial outdoor plants by the front door. The neighbors already know — I’m notorious for killing mums every fall. 😉 If you … Read more

Top 10 designer-tested haint blue paint colors and the best haint blue porch ceiling ideas, with the Southern tradition explained. If you’ve wandered the porches of Charleston or Savannah, you’ve likely noticed the soft blue ceilings that give those homes so much charm. That delicate blue—often called “haint blue”—carries history and brings calm to any … Read more

This time of year I always convince myself I’ll get everything done early. I imagine finishing our family’s Christmas shopping by Thanksgiving, baking cookies for the local firefighters and police, adopting a stack of Angel Tree kids, having the house spotless and organized before guests arrive, packing Operation Christmas Child boxes, and decorating the house … Read more