Yay for kitchen progress! Doug just finished painting the ceiling in our kitchen, which luckily involved taking down the existing light fixture, which was an awful 1980s brass ceiling fan. And rather than put it back up, we agreed that maybe it would just be better if we just replaced it. So we spent mostRead more
My very favorite bloggers at Young House Love have a saying: “The middle makes no sense.” This perfectly describes the situation we’re in now with our kitchen update. Limited workspace means that I can only paint one bank of cabinet doors at a time so it will take several more rounds before they’re all painted.Read more
When we last left our heroes, they were slathered with wood filler and drying in the office. And by “our heroes” I mean the kitchen cabinet doors, of course. I got a lot done last week, despite baking and cooking up a storm for various social events. The most important task was getting the cabinetRead more
Late last August, I was musing about what we might do to our kitchen eventually. I painted one of the walls, got the right paint for the kitchen cabinets and started painting them. However, it still looks exactly like the picture below since the only work I did was on the other side. Guess we needRead more
Lest you think it’s been all office, all the time around here, here are three more little updates we’ve completed over the past few weeks. 1) Hung a new shower curtain in the bathroom. During our search for office curtains (before we decided to make them ourselves), we noticed this shower curtain at Target (hereRead more
It’s been a busy week! I finally finished turning my antique radio into a bar. I also got caught up on some cleaning, which I had been ignoring in favor of projects for several weeks. I went to Twins Ace Hardware four times. For the record, they have started to laugh at me since IRead more
Let’s talk about pantries. This is apparently a pretty important topic for us homemakers. Oh Joy! just did a post on easy hors d’oeuvres for spontaneous entertaining that mentioned that she never has stuff on hand for guests. May Richer Fuller Be just reorganized her pantry. With spring on the immediate horizon, organization and easy, casualRead more
Remember this? I headed out thrifting specifically to find some things to spray paint a la the Young House Love book. Well, I finally found some things to spray paint. Three of them, actually. So far we’ve only tackled two because the third one will be a little more complicated and deserves a post ofRead more
Die volleyball die! We found this volleyball down by our community pool. It was in the bushes and half-inflated so we figured no one wanted it, which is why when Chester took a liking to it, we let him carry it home. I tell you, there is very little that is as entertaining as watchingRead more
I love where we live. It’s a two-bedroom condo in a nice neighborhood. We have friendly neighbors and even though we’re not really close to much, we’re not really very far from anything either. We can get to Woodbridge in about the same amount of time it takes us to get to Arlington. We canRead more