I’ve never been so excited in all my life to do laundry. How often can anyone really say that and mean it? We can officially cross the laundry room off of the house to-do list because it is finished! At least Phase 1 is. And who knows if Phase 2 will ever really happen because… life. If…
I channeled my inner Monica Gellar this week… and maybe watched too many Friends re-runs. Because the laundry room, y’all. The. laundry. room. needed. so. much. help. When we first started painting and makeovering in here, I mentioned how it’s a super awkward layout with all of these nooks and crannies. But the thing is we…
A dirty and tired orange brick fireplace gets a brightened up, weathered lime washed brick makeover, plus a full tutorial to do it yourself. Welp… I finally worked up the nerve and faced my fears, y’all. The dirty orange brick fireplace is GONE! I mean, I didn’t go all dragon-level destruction on it (who watched GoT…
This post has been a long time coming. 3 years to be exact. Because our entire house is FINISHED! I mean… mostly. (Is a house ever really totally finished?) We still have our laundry room, possibly a little flooring, and a few small spaces to go, but I was so excited to dust off our…
Recent realization: I thought I was a pretty easygoing person until I started letting our 4 year-old bake cookies and hang ornaments on the Christmas tree. I might have rearranged the cluster of glass balls Olivia stuck on the branches, but I’m still finding flour and sprinkles all over our kitchen. Honestly, if I wasn’t joining…
A round-up of DIY wall decor ideas for designer style on the cheap using repurposed items and thrifted materials. Weren’t we just talking about the TV switcheroo / wall decor situation happening in our living room? I’ve been over here remember ALL of the diy wall decor ideas we’ve conjured up ever since then. There…
Allow me to introduce you to my best buddy, Craig. He and I go a long way back. Well, at least all the way back to when our little family moved into our new, empty house 3 years ago. But Mr. Craig and I are tight because the hubby and I would probably still be very…
Are you having deja vu right now? Earlier this week, I shared this fallish little vignette in our living room for the Country Living Pumpkin Palooza and promised I’d be back to share how I made my pumpkin patch sign, so here it is! Last weekend was super crazy as we had flooding threats here in…
You guys! I’m having a fan-girl moment over here because today, I am teaming up with Country Living Magazine and 14 super talented bloggers to kick off the first annual Pumpkin Palooza! (Fellow pumpkin spice lovers, feel free to freak out with me now. And anti-PSL peeps, it’s okay; I won’t force-feed you pumpkin, I…
Where did summer go? I blinked and that was it! I know technically we still have a few weeks left of summer, but since all of the kids are back in school in my town, I’m getting all eager for fall. I am so excited to show y’all some exciting fall projects coming up soon….
About Lauren and Robert How It All Started It all started with a thrift store chair I decided to spray paint one fateful afternoon in 2013… and it went terribly, terribly wrong. But I didn’t let it defeat me. I refused to let that $5 wooden desk chair win. I was a stay-at-home mom looking…
One of my students paid me the biggest compliment the first week of our new semester with one sentence, “Mrs. Shaver, you got style!” Let me tell you first hand, teenagers are not easy to impress and will tell it like it is whether I want to hear it or not. So hearing one of…
