Have you ever seen a beautiful chalkboard in a restaurant or cafe, featuring detailed lettering and illustrations of the food, and wondered how they get such precise and saturated designs? Any time I’ve tried to do a drawing with chalk, it looks like it was done by a child. Which is partially a problem of artistic […]
Faux Pumpkin Planter for Halloween or Thanksgiving
My Kitchen Makeover Featuring Live-Edge Floating Shelves
Update! If you’re looking for a tutorial on how to install live-edge floating shelves, I put together a detailed one using the wood left over from these shelves: How to Hang Floating Solid Wood Shelves. I also made a live-edge bench with another piece of the same wood! A few days ago we finished a major […]
Major Kitchen Progress
After weeks of work, a lot of frustration, and many buckets of paint, the kitchen cabinets are finished! We took them from this splotchy, dark stain: to this: And from this: to this: Light and bright and a thousand times better, so we’re done, right? Well, not if you look around a bit. The wall where […]
Painting a vintage clock
The other day I took a break from painting our kitchen cabinets to do more painting. This time it was to revamp the clock we bought to go above our stove. When we moved in to the house, we noticed a funny old recessed outlet above the stove, and for a really long time, we […]
Kitchen Update
Sorry for falling down the rabbit hole a bit there, guys. The truth is that ever since I started painting my kitchen, I’ve been doing very little else during my waking hours. Prepping, painting, and sanding has all been super time-consuming, and I’ve been obsessed with getting this project done. To the point where I […]
DIY Agate Slice Vase
As I’ve said many times, I’m a big fan of rocks and minerals (evidence: my geode jewelry box and crystal curtain tiebacks). One type that I particularly like is agate slices. So when I saw an overpriced vase with an agate slice on the side, I knew I had to make my own. And now […]
DIY Pipe Paper Towel Holder
Since we moved into our house, we’ve been slowly chipping away at changes we want to make to our kitchen, like replacing the light over the kitchen sink. Even bigger improvements are ahead, but I thought that adding this built-in paper towel holder would be a fun and quick project. I was totally inspired by this […]
Free Printable Vintage Botanical Art
A couple of weeks ago I posted about resources for free printable botanical/nature art. But not being content to use what was already available, I made up my own batch. By “made up,” I mean I resized and cleaned up vintage artwork from multiple sources, mainly this book and this book on botanicus.org. Turns out […]