Everything Homemaking
My husband is a brilliant man. He has a gift for making small changes that bring HUGE results. The other day he came home with a new welcome mat. Here’s the thing – neither of us can remember when we bought our current welcome mat or if we even did buy it. Maybe it came with the house. We’re not sure. But it had gotten really worn out and ugly and we hadn’t even noticed. So … [Read more...]
One of my favorite things to do is sit on the deck with my husband, relax a few minutes and talk about our day. Several years ago we purchased two cheap deck chairs and a little side table for the deck. They worked out fine except for after it rains! The chairs have solid seats that hold water. And after the water dries up, the seats look dirty and uninviting! So every time we … [Read more...]
I didn’t realize I hated decorating until I went shopping recently for a new comforter for our bedroom. It seemed like an easy task. I expected to waltz into Target, find the comforter, buy it, bring it home and put it on the bed. It didn’t work that way. I walked the comforter aisles repeatedly hoping I was just missing the perfect comforter. Apparently I wasn’t. I gave … [Read more...]
Have you ever compared the rooms in your house to the rooms in a magazine? And found your rooms lacking? And wondered why, no matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t get your rooms to look like the magazine rooms? There’s a good reason for that. Those rooms are STAGED! Even the “real” rooms are staged to some degree. To prove my point, I went through some of my magazines to … [Read more...]
Do you remember the story about the frog that was slowly boiled? If you haven’t heard it, it goes like this: If a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out. But if you place a frog in cold water that is slowly heated, it won’t notice until it’s too late. The idea is that some things change so slowly and we don’t even realize they’ve changed. For example, the condition … [Read more...]
Organizing isn’t just about pretty drawers and clean desks. It’s also about function. If something in your space frustrates you, it needs to be fixed. Here are some examples from my home: Our laundry room is in the basement and it was a pain to try to open the door at the bottom of the steps while carrying an overflowing laundry basket. So we switched out the door knob for a lever … [Read more...]
My husband is a remodeling contractor and has been for the last 25 years. We’ve also remodeled every house we’ve lived in. We’ve never had big houses or big budgets so we had to be creative with space and money. David is a master at both of those things and has repeatedly come up with amazing solutions. I thought I would share a few of those with you from our current renovation. I … [Read more...]
