A few snapshots from my long weekend in Naples, Florida. My wonderful friend Jen (remember her guest post here?!) is getting married this fall (yay!), so some of us girls flew down to her parents’ vacation home in Naples for a long weekend of bachelorette-ing, beaching, bubbly-ing and lots and...
A few months ago I picked up a sound bar on a great deal at Amazon. I’m sort of a techie guy so I like to complain about things like the factory speakers in our TV. I’m beginning to learn, though, that if you’re going to look at something all...
I think it’s the little details that really make a space. Yes, big things like layout and countertops and floors are important, but even the most beautiful cabinets in the world will look bad with the wrong hardware. When we replaced the icky plastic knobs in our old kitchen with...
Last week was a BIG week around here! Not only did we celebrate a brand new year, but Joanna turned two years old, and Oliver turned five months old. These might be my favorite photos of Joey ever. On Joey’s birthday we gave her all her favorite things — a cheeseburger and...
Growing up in the ‘ 80s, we had wallpaper in our house that was covered with pussy willows and ducks. Ugh! I bet a lot of you can relate to how those terrible 1980s patterns are enough to make anyone want to run away from wallpaper forever. But it’s SO different now, I promise! The dainty florals, country...
Hold onto your hats, grab a cup of coffee and get comfy, because this is going to be a big post! I’m combining posts today because holy moly OLIVER IS TWO! His second birthday was Saturday and we celebrated all weekend. We had donuts, went to the super adorable toddler...
I have a bad habit of wanting to start on the next project before the first one is finished. So while we still have things to do in the kitchen before we can consider it really done, I can’t help but think about what’s next! At the same time that our kitchen was...
When we were in New York, we had a chance to visit the showroom of Schoolhouse Electric, which was so fun. Schoolhouse Electric specializes in lighting and homegoods inspired by vintage designs from 1900 through the 1940s. I’ve had my eyes on some of their lights ever since we moved...
I started a blog post last week about how we don’t really do Mother’s Day/Father’s Day gifts, especially this year because we have a whole bunch of big projects coming up soon (baby’s room, new fence, bathroom update, maybe even getting the house painted!), but then Andy totally surprised me with...
Once again the weather over the weekend prevented us from working on the bathroom like we were hoping (too much snow to get to the store to buy the supplies we need!), so we went to work on another project: the hallway. That’s good since it’s been sitting half done...