I recently made some changes to my dining room and it made such a BIG DIFFERENCE. It’s been a complete dining room refresh. Admittedly, we don’t use this room very often. However, it is the first room you see when you enter the House house. It is just to the right of our entrance way, so even though we don’t use it, I always want it to look nice. Afterall, it is the first impression…
Step by Step – How to Refinish a Dark Wood Table… I loved this table, and it’s color, when we first bought it over 8 years ago, but it just didn’t look right in our home anymore. Especially after I painted the walls white and painted the hutch blue and this thrift store piece blue too. I wanted the table to be more Coastal looking. So, How to Refinish a Dark Wood Table? Read on…
This is the first month of a new monthly blog hop called Creative Thursdays. Thanks to Tara from Stiletto’s and Shiplap, Emily at LeCultivateur and Shae from Sweet Southern Grace for the invite. I am more than happy to be working with such creative ladies. This month’s theme is to create a fall floral arrangement spending no more than $15, using a container we already had. We could use both faux or real florals. Please…
We’ve had this dining room set for a LONG time. We bought it when chocolate brown furniture was all the rage. I still love it’s clean lines and all the storage it offers, and the fact that I get to display all my ‘pretties’. After re-doing this Thrift Store Find a few weeks ago, it really made my old dark brown hutch stick out like a sore thumb in my dining room. Soooooo, much to…
It is time for another Thrift Store Challenge! I have been participating in these monthly Thrift Store Challenges with a group of very creative bloggers for the last few months. It is so much fun. For this challenge, we did not have a theme or any budget (but try to keep it as budget friendly as possible). Just buy something from a thrift store and spruce it up, paint it, etc. and do what you…
I love lighthouses and I realized recently that I have taken A LOT of pictures of them over the years. This summer alone, we saw a bunch of amazing lighthouses while in Pictured Rocks Lakeshore in Michigan, and Door County, Wisconsin. Heck, I even got married at a place that has a famous lighthouse on it’s property. Castle Hill Inn in Newport, RI, which houses Castle Hill Light. Lighthouses are full of history and I…