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Our kitchen & powder room plus FIVE tips for creating a cheerful home for spring

By Jessica On February 26, 2015 · 6 Comments · In Home, Home decor, house projects
For the past three years, I’ve been on a mission to make our house a home. We moved in three years ago next month and we’ve slowly turned our house into a bright, fresh, cheerful home that we love. Our kitchen and powder room are two of my favorite rooms in our home. I’m excited [...]
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How to get changeable seasonal art for under $20

By Jessica On January 7, 2015 · 9 Comments · In DIY, fancy deals, Home decor, house projects
I’m excited about today’s post. I’m going to show you how to get changeable seasonal art for under $20 that you could use for holidays like Valentine’s Day, Christmas, birthday parties or just to change with the seasons. My friend Heidi (who seriously needs to get her blog going) recently shared a really budget-friendly secret [...]
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A look at our family room plus a little furniture snafu

By Jessica On December 2, 2014 · 2 Comments · In Home, house projects, making things happen
While I haven’t talked about it much here, I have shared many sneak peeks of our family room on Instagram. We were all set to have the room done this past Friday with the delivery of our furniture and rug, but we had a little issue. The sofas (yes, we thought we needed two of [...]
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The practical reasons why I’m switching to mismatched dining chairs

By Jessica On October 13, 2014 · 2 Comments · In Home, house projects
After years of struggle with dining chairs due to having cats with claws who love to scratch things and a child who often spills, I’ve conceded. I will not own upholstered dining chairs for the next ten years. And after having one of my favorite dining chairs just break while a guest was seated on [...]
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A DIY light fixture for our playroom with GE super bright leds plus a playroom reveal

By Jessica On April 21, 2014 · 7 Comments · In DIY, Home, house projects
I am a member of the Collective Bias®  Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper amplification for Collective Bias and its advertiser. GE LED Energy Smart light bulbs are the new way to light and are perfect for a dark room like our shared playroom/guest room. Besides the [...]
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Our cheerful updated foyer gallery wall on a budget using free printables

By Jessica On April 14, 2014 · 10 Comments · In DIY, house projects
After my last post about our gallery wall, I thought I should probably update you on the semi-finished/never really finished product. :) We decided to change our old gallery wall from a hung wall to picture ledges for a variety of reasons. First, I love switching out art all the time. I change my style [...]
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Our sophisticated combined playroom / guest room plan

By Jessica On February 20, 2014 · 8 Comments · In baby, DIY, house projects, Our home, Parenting, Toddler
With the new little babe on the way, we have to combine our playroom and guest room in the coming weeks. I want the playroom to be a childish space, but since it also needs to serve as a guest room, I chose a sophisticated color palette and I’m using everything I can that we [...]
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Boy nursery design inspiration board: Cloud, stars and sky theme

By Jessica On February 6, 2014 · 9 Comments · In baby, DIY, house projects, Our home, Parenting, pregnancy
I’m sure our nursery plan will change a lot in the coming weeks as we get to work on all of the home changes we need to make, but I wanted to share our initial plan for the nursery for our second baby. I’m hoping to achieve a soft, somewhat modern nursery on a budget [...]
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A seriously great deal on a nursery glider

By Jessica On January 8, 2014 · 10 Comments · In baby, house projects, Our nursery, {home design}
I just got home from getting a great deal. I’ve talked about how I planned to splurge on a nursery glider/rocker this time around. B didn’t sleep and we spent a lot of time attempting to calm him in the Ikea chair we bought. It never worked so we ended up walking around with him. [...]
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Organizing home improvement projects and home maintenance once and for all with HomeZada

By Jessica On November 14, 2013 · 22 Comments · In house projects, Sponsored
This post is sponsored by HomeZada through my work with Burst Media. All opinions are my own.  We’ve been in our new home for a year and a half now. My husband and I have definitely figured out our style and we’ve learned how to do a lot around the house since this move. But [...]
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