Home Projects

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Someone is Way Too Excited Over a Closet

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And that someone is me. (You probably guessed that already, right?)

We have a spare room in our house that really can't be a bedroom, since you have to walk through it to get to another part of our house.  I think it's meant to be a small office, but it wouldn't work for Tom and I to share, and we've already set our office up in another room. 

That left a craft room as the next obvious option.  If you know me at all, you know that the amount of craft related items I own is ridiculous.  They needed a spot.  The best part about this room, is that it has an okay sized closet.  Not big, but okay.  So it quickly became a fun challenge to figure out how we could maximize the space in there.  

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The Best Door to Ever Door

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From the minute I saw our house, I knew it needed one thing - a painted front door. 

The house is beautiful, but the light color of the siding combined with a stark white door was too washed out.  I'd been watching the trend of brightly painted front doors for a while now, and been waiting until I could follow suit.  I'd had dreams about a bright cherry red door, or maybe a happy turquoise.  Unfortunately neither of those colors would look great with our house.  Instead, another color was screaming out to be chosen. 

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Meet My New Friend

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Owning a home means you get excited about really weird stuff.  Like programmable thermostats.  And I'm not talking "Oh that's kind of nice" excited, I'm talking highlight of your week.  

This probably has something to do with the fact that Tom and I are both pretty bad at remembering to turn the thermostat down when we're not home.  Which means we are often mistakenly are heating or cooling our empty house.  There's nothing more annoying (okay maybe I'm exaggerating a bit) than coming home to an excessively hot/cold house, and realizing all the money you've just wasted getting it like that.  

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Yard Work and the Story Behind This Picture...

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Lately the turkeys around here can breathe a little bit easier, because Tom has a new nemesis he's been focused on (and no, it's not me):

PEBBLES!

Yes, that's right... tiny, itty, bitty, rocks.  Our back yard is full of them, and while they may look pretty, they don't play well with our lawn mower.  We've found that over time, especially after it rains, the migrate from where they're supposed to be, to all over our lawn.