Burritos and Bubbly – Home Improvement, Design & Family

Our Kitchen Renovation: The Layout(s)

Happy Monday, guys! I hope you all had a great Valentine’s Day. Andy and I celebrated with waffles for breakfast and crab legs for dinner, yummm. Joey celebrated by keeping us up half the night. Party girl! So last week we started talking about our upcoming kitchen renovation that we’re crazy excited about. We...

Baby Update: 20 Weeks Pregnant Is the Best

I could be 20 weeks pregnant forever! Ok, maybe not foreverrrrr (because maternity clothes are the worst, and obviously I’m excited to meet our little boy), but this is definitely the sweet spot of pregnancy. I can’t believe we’re halfway through already! My top 10 reasons 20 weeks pregnant is the best: At...

Clean and simple

We have a lot of stuff in our house — furniture, knick knacks, odds and ends… just so. much. stuff. And sometimes I just want to clear it all out for a clean and simple design. I am really inspired by this house featured on Young House Love last week. I...

Painting Our Kitchen BLACK!

Let me just start by saying: the absolute hardest part of an open-concept home is when you want to take pictures of one room, but two other rooms have to be clean because they could be in the shot!! We did a project way back in November(!!) that we only...

Burritos and Bubbly

Burritos and Bubbly is a home design and lifestyle blog by Andy and Kerry Bindernagel that focuses on home improvement, design inspiration and life of a modern family. Specializing in a colorful, casual, modern decorating style, our goal is to make home design accessible and fun. The blog follows our adventures reinventing our 1960s...

Under Cabinet Lighting in the New Kitchen

For some strange reason, electrical work has never intimidated me. I remember being somewhat young and helping my dad install a ceiling fan. We turned off the power, unhooked what was there, matched up some wires, turned everything back on, and it all worked. So that officially made me an...

Painting 101: recommended supplies

Hi! This is part two of our Painting 101 series, so be sure to check out part one: choosing paint color. In this lesson we want to talk about supplies. There’s nothing worse than getting halfway through a project and realizing you have to stop and go back to the store...

Home Tour: Rumpus Room

Hi guys! I have another late post for you today since these things take a long time to put together… but I’m sitting out on the back deck in the sunshine with Ruby, so it’s not a bad job to have! Let’s keep going with our virtual home tour, ok? Today...

Burritos and Bubbly Travel Tips: Travel can be cheap

As you may remember, Kerry and I recently traveled to Huntington Beach and Palm Springs and we loved it. We had originally planned on not doing many vacations this year, but we have a trip to Traverse City coming up next month, and then in September we are doing a...

Inspiration: Multicolored Geometric Walls

There’s a fun trend these days to do interesting, often geometric patterns with different shades of paint on an accent wall. I think this goes along with how wallpaper is popular again, but paint is an easier way to play around with creative color and pattern ideas without the commitment and cost of wallpaper. You...