When you move into a new house, you have to prioritize your changes based partly on difficulty and motivation. And over the year and a half we’ve lived here, the difficulty of the renovations we’ve made has been ramping up. But one room we’ve just been chipping away at is our kitchen. When we moved in we replaced […]
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 […]
My DIY Industrial Pendant Light
Lately I’ve been working on house projects that we’ve been meaning to tackle ever since we moved in a year ago (see bathroom painting). We go back and forth between “What’s the hurry? We have years ahead of us to get this stuff done!” and worrying that we’ll get so used to the status quo that […]
Gifts to DIY & Gifts to Buy: For the Foodie
There are so many fantastic gift ideas for the foodie in your life that I had to stop myself from restocking my own kitchen from this list. From flavored salts, to extracts, to cutting boards and oven mitts, here are some ideas for anyone who really appreciates food. 1. Flavored salts | 2. Monogrammed cutting […]