Monthly Archives: March 2013
Happy Easter! Bringing You this Hope with Some Pics of Last Year’s Easter Table…
Happy Easter! Here are pictures of how I did the Easter tablescape last year. (Hopefully next year, I’ll do this year’s table)
Our dining room was click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Family Room Entry Gets a New Floor, and I Love It!!
When we bought ‘Our House’ 15 or so years ago, the lower level was unfinished. We spent that first summer getting it finished. Since then, though I’ve changed the wall treatments, furniture and light fixtures… (a few times) I haven’t changed the flooring. (not counting rugs)
We originally purchased really good quality flooring and since it’s a lower level family room, it doesn’t get beat up like a main level floor would.
However…
And that’s a big however! Even though it was still in great shape, I am sick of it!
The carpet part of the room is still fine. It’s super neutral and has a ‘cable knit sweater’ pattern to it that I still like. But the vinyl by the patio door, that’s a different story. At the time it was awesome, sort of retro styled, but I am just so sick of the green and pattern.
Yep! We decided to replace the vinyl with laminate, (ok… so who’s the ‘we’ in we? click here to read the rest of the story…
Someone Else’s House: Vintage Bungalow… Turning the Kitchen into a Masterpiece and All on a Budget
We’re back to visit the antique craftsman style home we’ve been touring. Little bit by little bit, we’ve seen some really clever and super cute transformations in this young couple’s first home, and the subject of today’s post is no exception to that.
When they bought this antique house, the kitchen, unfortunately had been re-done in the 1980’s. In which, the previous owners had completely stripped down and removed every original surface… appliances, floor, trim and window from the original home gone, and replaced with that famous, generic looking 80’s style. click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Easter Mantel
I wasn’t going to decorate the mantel this year for Easter… I had just updated it a little bit for Spring/Summer, although I don’t know what inspired me, certainly not the weather…
We’ve had so, so, so much snow this winter… the ground has been buried under feet of the stuff for months, and if I didn’t have as many years of life experience concerning winters in NW Wisconsin, I may doubt that Spring will ever come. But I know from history, that spring eventually will win out and arrive… right?
I had finished some Easter decorating with fun DIY projects this year, but that is all for the dining room… and I guess I felt that we needed a little bit of Easter décor in the great room too.
So here’s what I came up with: click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: And Then There Was Grass!!
A couple weeks ago I did 5 day series on how I created the Easter tablescape this year in our dining room.
If you missed any of those 5 days, here are the links:
Day 1: DIY Easter Pots
Day 2: Jute Wrapped Eggs
Day 3: Mod Podge Eggs
Day 4: Building a Planter from Scrap Wood
Day 5: Putting it all together
I’ve been promising an update on the grass growing situation… did it grow? Or did I have to figure out a DIY project to create some faux grass?
Well, the wait is over, finally, the answer, I know you all have been sitting on the edge of your seats wondering…
and since we all just love those before and after pics…
Yay!
I’m glad to announce that I click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Sideboard Finished for Easter
Details can make such a difference in decorating. The other day I showed you the mini E-A-S-T-E-R peat pots that I made and put on top of the sideboard mirror ledge.
Once I had them up there I realized that the sideboard needed a little bit more to finish the look.
What do you think? Here’s the before and after:
I had most click here to read the rest of the story…
Would this Moen Kitchen Faucet Style Work in my Kitchen?
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Moen, Incorporated for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
I was asked by Moen to write about the Kiran Spot Resist one-handle pulldown kitchen faucet specifically how it would fit into my decorating style. So I’m taking the opportunity to briefly talk about mixing styles in decorating and why I think that keeps it fresh and allows you to be more creative. click here to read the rest of the story…
DIY: E-A-S-T-E-R Baskets
Last week I share a really fun little craft project I made for part of the dining room Easter centerpiece at ‘Our House’. (if you missed that post, click here to see it)
I had so much fun making those transformed peat pots, and wanted to be able to use a few more of the wonderful Easter graphics from Graphics Fairy that I came up with a similar craft, but with a little bit of a creative twist.
So I embellished them a little bit more and spelled out E-A-S-T-E-R on each little peat pot.
Here’s how I did it: click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Family Room Game Table Re-Do
So last time I showed you how I did the game chairs that go with this game table… I bought the set from Craigslist, purposely looking for a ‘project’ set, so that I could inject my own personality into it…
(and, like I told you with the chairs, darnit, I totally forgot to take a before picture of the set, but it was a 1980’s golden oak with brown vinyl seats)
Let’s pick it up from where I left off with the chair project…
The chairs I painted black, applied oval numbers in white and black and the seats are recovered in a dark brown and cream colored houndstooth fabric. (so, I just wrote that really fast, but the actual decision making wasn’t nearly so quick… once I had the chairs done though, I needed to figure out how I was going to paint the table to ‘pull’ it all together, and look like a set… it took me a little bit of creative thinking…)
I knew I wanted the top to be something special, click here to read the rest of the story…
New Post, just for Bloglovin
There is a fairly new way to follow all those blogs we follow… it’s bloglovin, and if you’re interested check them out. I’m getting verified right now and hopefully DecorateWithaLittleBit will be available to follow on their reader service real soon!
and just so that I’m not sending out a post without a pretty picture that hopefully will inspire…
This is the antique church that was moved into our town’s Heritage Center…
I’m getting signed up with Bloglovin… so hopefully this link will work, if not check back in a few days…
