Looking Forward to a Little Green Even if it's Just Inside!

Whose ready for spring yet?  I know I say I want snow, but with two good snowstorms under our belt in the last week or so as well as a school closure, I'm kinda itching to see some green instead of all the white.  I know green isn't coming outside for a while, but to brighten our spirits I'm bringing the green inside.  So the plan is to start lettuce and spinach seeds indoors, but I needed a place to plant them so I created these planting crates out of cedar wood and some leftover barnwood.  Come on and see how easy these are to make, and you probably have all the supplies necessary already!

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How Many Years Have We Been Doing This Project?

I'm embarrassed to say how long it's taken to put this half bath project together, I was blogging about it in 2015.  All the components were there from salvaged items to fabric for the valence over the window, it was just that last little piece of the puzzle that we couldn't seem to get finished.  Well I'm excited to announce that it's done, our builder boring half bath is now a totally customized and unique space that fits our house perfectly.

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It's Porch Sitting Time

I'm so ready to be outside, who's with me!  School's almost done, and it's time to get out working in the yard, and when you're done for the day there is nothing better than filling a glass of iced tea (or red wine) and sitting on the porch, but first it has to be ready for the season.

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Welcome to the Cinema

We're back turning something old and salvaged into a new piece to add to our decor.  This week we've taken an old headboard that we no longer needed, and turned it into a wooden sign for our home theater which was lacking some decor.

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Don't Throw Out the Leftovers!

We all have some leftover scrap from finished projects, so this particular project takes using your leftovers to a whole new meaning.  Remember these doors?  They became library shelves and storage in our work studio, but I still had the bottom half of the dirty door from the library shelves.  By adding a leftover drawer front I had laying around from an old dresser I refinished, what did I get?

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Sprucing Up the Dining Room

I worked on a bunch of little projects this week.  They aren't as satisfying as the big reveal to me, but you get a bunch of them under your belt, and you've got yourself a success almost as satisfying as a big project.  Almost!  I got a little more barnwood this week, and I was searching for some with a little bit of green in it.  These particular pieces had clearly been outside in the weather, and have a little moss color to them.

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From Trash to Eiffel Tower Design Treasure

I've got one more Eiffel Tower idea to show you, and the "canvas" for our Eiffel Tower design was discovered in an uncommon place, salvage shopping.  I think I might have tripped over this old framed screen a time or two before an idea came about how to use it, and for a few dollars it was worth the purchase.  It was in good shape and a great color just needed a little cleaning up.

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Additions for the Paris Room

It's a good thing that for the most part my kids are patient with me, at least in the realm of room decorations.  A week ago we remade a nightstand and gave it a Paris flare, well now time to add a few more touches.

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It's Time for Some Serious Organizing of our Winter Gear

Looking around our laundry room we had some disorganization, and we are now in the heart of the winter with coats and gloves and boots everywhere.  We needed some help, so we created a custom built-in to fit our needs! Read on and see how we did it.

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Always Thinking of Paris

My daughter and I have small love affair with Paris, okay it's more like an obsession really.  So to remind us of said love affair, we decided to decorate her room Paris themed.  We started out with rehabbing an old night stand.

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Beyond the Souvenir Shop

First off Happy New Year! Can't believe we are already almost half way through January, my how time fly's.  My family took a much needed break right after Christmas.  We were fortunate to be able to take a road trip to San Francisco between Christmas and New Year's and have a little rest and relaxation.  We took in the sites, walked along the waterfront, went to fisherman's wharf, ate good seafood, and took a boat tour to see the sites from the water.  But one stop into a store gave us the inspiration for this post, and took us beyond the souvenir shop to bring a little bit of San Francisco home with us.

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Creating Decorations Using Some of Our Favorite Music

We are quickly closing in on Christmas!  With less than two weeks left we are feverishly getting our presents bought and wrapped and enjoying the benefits of the season by getting together with friends and family.  We are still doing a few additions to the Christmas decorations, but this one's a little different.  

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Few Last Minute Decorations for Thanksgiving

We are making the final push in our preparation for Thanksgiving, and we are pumped.  We have put a couple of finishing touches on our kitchen decor to make this thanksgiving perfect.  First up a little upgrade on our harvest box.  It has worked perfectly to help organize all the fruits and veggies that come through the kitchen, but it needed a little pizzazz!

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Barnwood Door Turned Mantel Upgrade

We are busy getting ready for Thanksgiving making chicken stock and giving our sour dough starter time to sour, but managed this week to create a little upgrade for our faux fireplace in the basement.

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Custom Salvaged Dresser Request Complete

On one of our salvage trips we were lucky enough to find an old dresser.  One of those deals you couldn't pass up even though we didn't know how or where we were going to use it.  It sat in the barn for six months at least when a friend of mind was looking for just such a piece, and asked if we could redo it with custom colors to match her space.

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My Nephew's Birthday is Coming, But What to Make Him?

My little nephew is turning two in a week, and I wanted to make him a little something for his birthday, as well as adding some books to the gift.  What goes more perfect with books than some building blocks to play with!  So what did we do?  That's right we made them!!

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Repurposed Mirror to Wall Artwork

We are officially nearing my very favorite holiday, Thanksgiving!  It's a foodie's dream day right?  Well as we move into focusing on the dining room and kitchen in preparation for Thanksgiving, we needed some artwork on the wall in our dining room to spruce it up a bit, and we had just the piece.

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Upcycled Old Sewing Table

Better Homes and Gardens magazine is amongst one of my favorite magazines to get.  I discovered in the latest couple of issues people who have recycled old furniture and turned it into something fabulous!  We got the buzz here too, and had the perfect piece to turn around for this upcycling challenge!

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Have Map, Will Mark Where Traveled

On our Facebook Page earlier this week we shared an HGTV video about creating a travel map, well that got us inspired to finally put together our own travel map in the library, and we love it.

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Quick and Easy Last Minute Halloween Decorations

Halloween is almost here!!  We tend to go all out for Halloween, but thought we needed a few more decorations this year, so at the last minute we created a few.

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Work Studio Complete

We have finally done it.  The work studio is complete.  We added a few more finishing touches this week, and it's finally time for a walk-through.

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It's the Last but Not Least Organizing Element

We've almost done it, the last piece of the puzzle to finish up for our work studio so we are totally organized and have enough storage for all things crafty.  Just a few small touches to finish up before we give you the grand tour, but first let's see what we did this week!

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Storage Galore for Our Organizational Needs

Last week we started a serious upgrade of our organization in the artisan/work studio.  This week we continue all things organizing by adding much needed storage to this space, while we have created different shelving units using salvaged 2 x 12's or 2 x 6's on a couple of occasions here on the blog, these particular storage units combined both designs.

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Artisan Studio Organization

We are desperately seeking some organization!  No seriously there is stuff laying around everywhere in the craft studio.  While I suppose this means the creative juices are flowing, the overwhelmed feeling by the amount of little items that are scattered all over the place is really getting to us.  We need to create a system for harmony, so over the next couple of blog posts we are creating much needed organization for our craft/artisan studio.  We started this week with trying to keep all of the little things in order, but we must first go on a hunt around the house to see what we have laying around that we can salvage because let be honest all of the organizing tools you can buy at the store really add up fast.  I'd rather spend my money on crafty items not organization tools.

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Upgraded Outdoor Lighting

We are getting the exterior of our house painted this week!  Eek I can't tell you how excited I am to get this done, it's been just a little too long and now very necessary.  We needed to do a few little fixes on the exterior this weekend to get ready for paint, and one of those items was new front lighting.  Our old fixtures were too small and didn't stand out, so we replaced the old fixtures, but we couldn't just get rid of those lights, we did a little upgrade and added them to the back deck.

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Front Porch Fall Design to Enjoy the Last of the Warm Evenings!

We were recently inspired by Arhaus to showcase a design of our outdoor space, so we did just that, and transformed our front porch into a relaxing end of the day place to enjoy.

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Hello Fall

It's officially time to decorate for fall, with temps getting cooler outside and the kids back in school, we are prepping our house for all things fall.  We've definitely accumulated a lot of fall decorations over the years, however we had added some cool new and easy decorations that you can do quick and for next to nothing.

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Harvest Storage Help!

We've been harvesting and harvesting from our long awaited dream vegetable garden.  It's been a stellar year for sure with an excellent harvest thus far.  The one thing I didn't think of was how am I going to store all of this excellent produce.  We have been freezing and canning, but some of it you just have to give away or eat yourself now!  We needed a storage system for the counter to keep us neat and organized so we made one that fit our space perfectly. 

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Old Windows Done Seven Different Ways

I start by saying I love old windows, there has never been one that I can think of that I didn't like. With glass, without glass, broken glass it doesn't matter, I love old windows.  I pick them up where and when I can on my treasure hunts.  Here are a few ways that I have used old windows in some of my projects.

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No Trespassing by order of the Boy!

A long, and I do mean a long time ago, we started working on my sons new move to the basement with a cool new paint job for his room.  We of coarse still have more to add to finish up his room, but this new sign we made from a old salvaged box spring mattress is perfect.

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Old Finds Create a Vintage Fireplace Mantel Design

I love my fireplace and then subsequently my fireplace mantel, however I have had the toughest time trying to figure out how to decorate it's huge space.  Well I took a look around my house and found some perfect items that fill up this mantel .

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From Broken Chair to Towel Bar?

We've been working on updating our builder half bath for sometime now, and I know what you're thinking, that's probably the smallest, easiest, most cost effective room to update right?  Well, it's taken me some time, and I do keep changing my mind on what exactly is going in there, so maybe there is some excuse.  For this addition we took an old broken chair, and turned it into a unique and creative towel bar.  

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Easy Laundry Decor on a Dime

Feels good to get back into the swing of salvaging, creating, and decorating, after almost a month off we are ready to get back to it.  The laundry room was in much need of some decorating, and like most of us we are on a budget.

Here's how the whole room turned out, and we totally changed the look and feel of this room with some very simple to create items. I might actually want to do laundry now?!?  Maybe!

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Salvaged 2 x 12's Turned to Custom Shelving Unit

We are feverishly putting in all the plants and seedlings for our vegetable garden, so much work in fact that we have gotten a little behind on all of our other responsibilities, however we managed to make a much needed shelving unit for our music room this week all out of salvaged 2 x 12's.  We had no real organization for all of our piano music, most of the time it would just end up scattered on the floor and stepped on etc, definitely not the ideal situation, so we built and distressed our unit using old 2 x 12's to help us store and organize our music.

This custom built to order shelf unit was easy to construct, and the distressed painting technique we used was even easier. 

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Salvaging the Salvage Project

There are many different ways to get an image you desire onto wood, whether it be old pallet wood or brand new wood you just purchased from the hardware store, however the new way I tried this week needs some work to perfect, but I had to salvage my project.

These are my new addition to the tops of my kitchen cabinets, you know that one foot space above your cabinets that sometimes we don't know what to do with.  Here's the perfect addition to that space.

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Garden Is Growing, and We Need a Place to Work

The big vegetable garden is growing by leaps and bounds everyday.  We've added quite a lot more seeds and plants, and are in the process of adding a couple of fruit trees, but we needed a place to work.  So create one we did!

With a bunch of left over wood from the building of the chicken coup, we were able to make this custom work bench at no cost!!

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Rustic Decor Additions for Wyoming

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If you have followed my blog for any time you know that our family has a place in windy Wyoming. It's been in the family for many years, and the Flying X Ranch holds a dear place in my heart.  We have had our place up there for about seven or eight years now, and quite frankly it needed some rustic decor to spruce up the place.  I've had these ideas for a year or two, but up until now I've not done anything about it.  We are ready to start heading back up there again this summer, and I thought it was time to add some decor to make it feel like a home away from home.

Here's how everything turned out!

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We Just Need Some Home Decor There?!?

Have you ever stared at a space in your house, and thought this space needs something?  But what? I had just that space at the base of my stairs on the main level.  It needed something.  Well I finally did something about it, I built and installed a console table that was just exactly what this little space needed.

This table was super easy to create and even easier to install.

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From a Door to Library Shelves

We did a little treasure hunting a week or so ago, and came across a couple of great doors at our local Habitat for Humanity ReStore.  Sent it out for your opinion on our Facebook Page, and got a lot of great ideas, thank you!!  I thought you might like to see what we turned one door into.

I was in need of some added shelves for my library, but wasn't ready to build the custom shelves I want to add someday.  Now we have a few more shelves to use for our ever growing collection of books.

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Brand New Etsy Listing

We've been busy creating and growing our Etsy shop, and just today rolled out another new creative item for your home.

Come on over to our Etsy Store or click our Etsy icon above, and take a look at what creative items we have for your home.  New items coming all the time.  Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.  Our new Amazon Handmade Store will be rolling out soon.

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