This kitchen island of ours has undergone so many changes! Basically, the butcher block top had experienced enough fluctuations between high humidity in the summer (remember, we don’t have AC) and intense dryness in the winter (wood-burning stove in the kitchen!) that it had rather fatally split. Remember the “before before”? When we first moved… Read More »
Oklahoma house tour, Part 2
We’re getting ready to welcome Capt. P home after a 6-week long field exercise (which homecoming is also my self-imposed deadline for a bunch of projects around the house, because some of us function much more efficiently with a deadline, and there’s nothing that says “welcome home” like organized closet shelves and curtains on the… Read More »
A house tour of our Okla-home (part 1)
Since at least two or three of you were so kind as to humor me when I offered to give a little house tour of a house we no longer live in, I am here to oblige with lots of photos. (One such reader, dear Clarice, is the one who called it our Okla home,… Read More »
New laundry room, old house!
Remember when we first started out here, and I explained to you about how “if I can do it, so can you”? Like, everyone has a mental spectrum, and on that spectrum there are two ends. One end is a paragon of fabulousness, of the unreachable stars of whatever it is that you are thinking… Read More »
Almond bathroom fixtures: a make-do bathroom makeover!
{At the end of this post you will find paint colors to update your almond fixtures, and notes about sources. The Amazon links are affiliate links.} I have come to that point where either I show you some pictures of my bathroom makeover in its not-quite-complete form or I give up altogether, because in real life,… Read More »