Category: Home Renovation

  • Wallpaper: My Worst Nightmare

    Wallpaper: My Worst Nightmare

    Wallpaper has recently made a comeback and I did want tot try my hand at it in the master bathroom. I used peel and stick wallpaper on my hall tree makeover with ease and thought I’d give real wallpaper a try. I watched a few videos and honestly it seemed super easy. The bathroom is…

  • My Design Plan for the Master Bedroom

    My Design Plan for the Master Bedroom

    So after having a baby, I’ve realized that the Master Bedroom is well….lacking in certain ways. Postpartum you spend a lot of time in your bed and you start to notice things that could be better. Our Master Bedroom isn’t huge and I don’t necessarily need one that’s the size of a small apartment –…

  • Planning and Painting the Mural in the Nursery

    Planning and Painting the Mural in the Nursery

    One of the most exciting things about planning for a baby is designing the nursery. The moment we decided on a name for our baby, I automatically knew what the theme would be. Because we chose the name Celeste, derived from the word “celestial,” I wanted to make a night sky in her room. Most…

  • Nest With Me: My Nursery Theme

    Nest With Me: My Nursery Theme

    As soon as I found out that I was having a girl, I got on the nursery theme bandwagon. This was the perfect excuse to reimagine a room in the house even if it wasn’t going to be used much right after birth. After choosing her name, Celeste, I knew I wanted to go with…

  • Changing out the Storm Door

    Changing out the Storm Door

    When it comes to the outside of my house, there wasn’t much that I wanted to change but I knew the entrance needed a refresh. I really wanted to replace the storm door because the white felt like it didn’t match with the shutters and I really did not like how thick the frame was….

  • Turning my Closet into a Hall Tree

    Turning my Closet into a Hall Tree

    So I’m a really clutter-y kind of person. I set things down and I forget about them until stuff on stuff piles up. My husband is the same way so you can imagine our house gets pretty messy pretty regularly. I’ve found that I can in fact be a clean and organized person IF there…

  • Installing a Space-saving Glass Shower Door

    Installing a Space-saving Glass Shower Door

    To say my master bathroom is small would be an understatement. That’s why when renovating the bathroom, I carefully chose space-saving features for every single aspect of design – including the shower door. Now, the original shower was a prefabricated fiberglass enclosure that was approximately 28″ by 28″ – that’s less than the width of…

  • What I Learned from Tiling my Master Bathroom

    What I Learned from Tiling my Master Bathroom

    I think tiling is one of those things that seems like a hard project but it really isn’t. It is time consuming and there are many ways you can mess up BUT the skill to do it is not hard. So, here’s what I learned when tiling my bathroom. 1. Map out your tile first…

  • The Schluter System: Waterproofing my Shower

    The Schluter System: Waterproofing my Shower

    As I embarked on this adventure of completely renovating my bathroom, by myself, with zero experience, there was one thing I knew I could not compromise on – making the shower waterproof. As mentioned in a previous post, the demolition of the bathroom revealed some water damage to the subfloor. I had two thoughts on…

  • Master Bath Reno: Cast Iron Plumbing to PVC

    Master Bath Reno: Cast Iron Plumbing to PVC

    If you have a fairly new house, your waste pipes are going to be PVC. I however, have an old house, so all of my pipes are cast iron. These pose problems over time because they rust and when they rust, like on the inside, the pipe dimension gets smaller and smaller. So basically overtime…