DIY Farmhouse Kitchen
I created my farmhouse kitchen from scratch, building everything including cabinets, concrete and butcher block countertops, and a custom range hood.
Whitewashed Dining Chair Makeover
I recently found some dining chairs on a yard sale site that I just couldn’t pass up. They were very sturdy, but very orange. I knew I could give them an awesome makeover! I brought them home and started drumming up a plan for what I wanted to do with them. I got all six […]
DIY Bird Church Decor
I was trying to come up with a Christmas craft that my daughter and I would both enjoy working on. There are only so many salt dough ornaments a mom can make before the eyes start to glaze over. So I thought it would be fun to make a DIY bird church that we could […]
How to Install Cast Natural Stone Veneer
In my last post, I went over everything you need to do to prepare your walls for stone. If you missed it, you can read all about it here. After everything is ready to go, it’s time to dive in with both feet and start installing the stone! We chose to use cast natural stone […]
Step By Step Fireplace Stone Veneer Prep
It took a lot of trips to home improvement stores to decide what kind of finish materials we wanted to use on the fireplace. We finally decided on some rustic chunky stone veneer. Finishing our fireplace turned out to be pretty easy compared to some of the other things we’ve completed recently. For right now, […]
DIY Rustic Range Hood
When I designed my kitchen, even from the very first sketches, I wanted two narrow windows on either side of the stove with a rustic wooden vent hood between them over the stove. It was a wonderful idea, but when you’re trying to complete the house and pass all of the inspections and meet standards […]
Old Windows as Staircase Decor
We have an open U-shaped staircase that leads to our basement. The wall remained blank for months while I searched for the perfect piece to hang there. One day, I found a pair of old windows at a yard sale for $5 each and knew that they were exactly what needed to go above the […]
How to be a Better Owner-Builder
Being an owner-builder of your own home can save you thousands (even tens of thousands) of dollars. You are the general contractor. You make all of the decisions. You hire the out the work or do it yourself. In the end, you get to step back and say that you built your own home. You […]
Back to the Beginning with Pierson-Gibbs
I want to take you back to where my love of “home-stuff.” I’m taking you back to the beginning with Pierson-Gibbs, Homes. My husband and I sold our first house in west Michigan in June of 2016. The real estate market in our area was insane. There were more buyers than sellers, by a LOT. […]
Bar Stool Makeover
These bar stools were left behind by the previous owners of the first house we purchased. They’re old, worn, and have some teeth marks in them from when my 100 pound chocolate lab was a puppy. I don’t love them. I barely even like them, but I have decided they can stay until I find […]