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Hometown Dining Room Wall Gallery

Hometown Dining Room Wall Gallery

We made this hometown dining room gallery wall to showcase the love for our home city. This would be perfect for a favorite or special travel city too! We’re getting closer and closer to getting our kitchen and dining room “done”. I say that in quotes because I’m not sure we’re ever really done, but most of

May Wrap Up

May Wrap Up

I fully intended to get this post up on the last day of May, but the fact that I’m a few days late is pretty much how everything is going lately.  May has seemed especially busy. My job is a bit crazy right now, Carter has been finishing up soccer, lots of graduations and family

Fireplace Update – No More Brass!

Fireplace Update – No More Brass!

Update your fireplace with these quick and easy projects for getting rid getting rid of brass or outdated fireplace doors and other accents. Earlier this week I posted about my staining my oak mantel a little darker to try to banish some of the 80’s from my living room. One of the things that bothered me

April Wrap Up

April Wrap Up

April felt like a productive month for us. While the weather wasn’t great during most of the month here in Iowa, it’s starting to come around. Here’s our month in photos, both from the blog and from our family. Follow me on Facebook, Pinterest or Intstagram to stay up to date all month long! Lots

Stenciled Garden Rocks

Stenciled Garden Rocks

Stenciled garden rocks are a quick and easy garden project or gift idea. Personalize with monograms, leaves or your favorite team logo. Step-by-step instructions and photos. Spring peaked out this weekend for a brief visit and we took advantage of it to do some outdoor projects. I pinned this stenciled garden rocks idea from BHG.com

Vintage Wood Tile Letter

Vintage Wood Tile Letter

Step-by-step instructions with pictures for making a vintage looking wood tile letter. I found a vintage looking tile letter from Spicher and Company several months ago. I pinned it on my Initial Decor board on Pinterest and periodically as I’ve been working on my monogram mantel collection, I’ve revisited it wanting to try to create

Honey Oak Trim – Stain or Paint?

It’s no secret that we have honey oak everywhere in our house – and that I despise it. I have done three semi-big projects so far to cover it up including two bathroom vanities and my kitchen cabinets. Each time, I loathe the trim even more, but it’s everywhere. We’re not going to live in

Map Covered Letter

Honor your favorite city or state with this map covered letter project. Unique and personal decor and a great gift idea.  I think I’ve previously admitted my addiction to letters, initials and monograms. In fact, I have an entire Pinterest board dedicated to Initial Decor. We recently did a lot of updates to our kitchen, and

Penny Letters

Use your loose change to create penny letters to decorate your home, like this one I made to go above the cabinets in our kitchen. I’m a big fan of word art. Not the “Keep Calm and …” type, but monograms, subway art, and other typeography art. I’ll be featuring several of these projects here,