We have a bathroom update and a new tutorial for you…How to install Floor Pops. First of all, you might be asking…what’s a floor pop? Floor pop is the brand name for a vinyl tile with an adhesive backing. Basically, peel and stick tiles. Here is what we bought. For the past two years the…
How to Spray Paint Your Garden Planter Pot Now that it is officially summer, how is your garden going? Or more specifically, how is your container garden going? All winter long I have been plotting about my next garden planter pot and what I want to do with it. We are big fans of Garden…
Our Quick Fix Bathroom Renovation This Christmas we decided to do our quick fix bathroom renovation. We found out some extended family were coming to stay at our house for 2 weeks over Christmas break. Six short weeks was all we had to pull off a complete bathroom reno on less than a shoe string…
Am I the only one who LOVES before and after’s? There is something so intriguing and yet somehow satisfying about seeing a dramatic change unfold simultaneously. When I am at the bookstore combing through all the Home and Garden magazines, I love finding the before and after sections. I love trying to figure out what…
The First Room to Get Remodeled Two months after “moving” into our new fixer upper, our niece called to say she was going to visit us. Our first reaction was, “Oh, my! We have to fix up a guest room fast.” She told us she was coming in two weeks. We went downstairs to the…
How to Prepare Exterior Brick for Painting Everyone is painting their brick house these days, have you noticed? We’re all saying goodbye to the old red, pink, tan brick homes of the past and giving them a fresh makeover with a coat of paint. We are sitting here just completely giddy at the thought that…
How To Quickly Improve Your Curb Appeal – Part II. If you missed Part I – read it here. The Problem – Those Nasty Thorny Bushes Taking Up The Entire Front Yard All that work Terry did digging up the old overgrown Juniper bushes (his midnight raid) in the front yard was only the beginning.…
One of the biggest questions we face is how to improve your curb appeal. Upon buying our fixer upper, we didn’t have to ask ourselves how to improve our curb appeal. It was starring at us in our face. Our house could be updated and more charming if we got rid of tall, overgrown bushy…
Getting the Guest Bedroom Ready for Company About 6 weeks after we “moved” into our new home, we got a call from a dear niece. She was coming up from California and needed a place to stay. We love having her stay with us. She is a lot of fun. She was coming up to…
How It All Started Moving into a fixer upper was not in our plans. Let me start at the beginning. Almost a year and a half ago, we were happily renting a home in a great area of Orem, Utah. We had been renting there for several years. Our landlords, who were also our next…