My fireplace was “classic brick” and although I didn’t hate it, I didn’t love it either. So one day I decided to see what other people did with their brick fireplaces and I found two options; cover it with wood paneling, or paint it white. Well, I didn’t like either of those options! Covering it wasn’t possible, and I never understood why white paint was the go-to for a wood fireplace with the smoking and the soot.

My master bedroom closet was an anomaly to me. It was large, but awkward. It wasn’t very long, but it was deep and it seemed that the space was not utilized to its fullest potential! And, to top it off, the access to the attic was in this closet, so the closet kits out there wouldn’t work with my space because I didn’t want to block access to the attic!

I have wanted to create the illusion of a stack of old-fashioned suitcases out of a dresser for years now. And I finally did it!

My bedroom is, as it should be, a sanctuary. But what my bed was missing was a headboard, so when I perused Pinterest for ideas on DIY headboards, I was planning on building one out of wood, but I saw a drapery one that caught my eye and I decided to try that route. The kicker - I spent $28 to create this headboard/canopy!

When I first purchased the house, I painted the white walls purple and replaced the oak hardware for silver hooks and a white medicine cabinet. This was in April, 2019. Finally, in September 2020 I got around to finishing the paint job and recovered the floor. Take a look at the transformation!

This project was something I wanted to do since purchasing the house in November, 2018. So, nearly two years later…I now have natural light in the only bathroom in the house!

I needed a light-weight, possibly temporary fence to hold my chickens off my deck, and I did not want to dig! Here’s how I built a fence using PVC pipe and cinder blocks.

My front yard slopes down and a small area was considerably lower than the rest - it appeared that previous owners/tenants had probably made this area into a garden, but it had since been neglected. Regardless, the shape of it begged to be smoothed out and new plants brought in!

I really wanted to put a dry river bed here - eventually to go up the edge of the lawn as a border - but definitely down in front of the lower garden. I read several blogs about how to do this project (most claiming to do one in a weekend!), but I knew I would have to end up doing it my way…the way I always do it…on the fly!

Girl #2 doesn’t like to keep her room clean, especially under her bed. So, I figured the best way to get her to keep under her bed picked up, was to raise her bed off the floor!

Before leaving on a 10-day camping trip, I filled up the water dish for the chickens…and grumbled the entire time. I really wanted some kind of large reservoir…so the online research began! Here’s how I built an automatic chicken waterer.

When I purchased this house in 2018, it was a pretty boring front and I had ideas to spruce up the front yard. But I had to wait until the spring to make my ideas come to fruition!

I have always loved hammocks - I love the sideways sway! When I purchased a new hammock, my existing stand didn’t fit it, so I got to work searching Pinterest for DIY Hammock Stands! I built this one for under $60

I wanted to create a fire pit in my backyard that was a little more permanent than my little one from Walmart, but the wind that whips through my yard in the afternoons was deterring my build. I wanted something more than just a simple ring - I wanted some kind of wind breaker as well! Here’s how I built a tall-back fire pit for just over $100! (If I had only wanted to do the ring, this pit would have cost just under $70!)

I needed to find a way to brighten my builder-grade kitchen without popping holes in the wall or ceiling and decided a little bit of paint would help!

I’ve kind of always wanted chickens, but the initial start up cost was a deterrent. So when some dear friends had to find a new home for their chickens, and were also generously giving their coop and supplies, I gladly took on the mantle!