Living through a remodel isn't the easiest thing. We spent months working on our Willow House, making it livable, before we ever moved in. But even with all that time and hard work spent on making this house something we could move into, there were so many different items that would still need finished after we moved in. Now that we've lived here for over a year, we've both learned several lessons about what it's really like living through a remodel. Today, I wanted to share five tips for living through a remodel. It's not always as glamorous as what it's made out to be, but it is worth it! Five Tips For Living Through A Remodel Tip # 1: Be Patient I think it goes without ...
How To Organize Hot Tea
One little known fact about me, is that I love hot tea. It's such a soothing way to unwind, to enjoy with breakfast, an afternoon snack or after dinner before bed. And it pairs exceptionally well with scones... Growing up, my mom was always a big lover of hot tea, and she passed that love onto me. Because we both love it so much, our collection of hot tea flavors seems to grow regularly. And as the collection grows, so does the need for additional storage for all those tea boxes. Today, I'm sharing how to organize hot tea. The struggle can be real when you have a cabinet overflowing with tea boxes, leaving little room for organization or anything else! A few months ago my mom ...
Easter Table Setting
With everything that's going on in the world right now, I know the last thing you may be thinking about is setting the table for Easter. But with Easter right around the corner, I still wanted to share an easy Easter table setting to help brighten our spirits. The celebration of Easter may be different this year, with each of us doing our own in-home intimate gatherings, but our desire to celebrate hasn't changed... especially at Easter. Today, I wanted to share a very easy and simple take on an Easter table setting that can be created with things we already have on hand. Even though I wanted to add fresh florals from the grocery store, I didn't. Instead, I thought of a ...
An Update On Our Master Bathroom
It's time I shared an update on our master bathroom! We've made such incredible progress, and here soon, I look forward to revealing the finished space! Before that happens though, we have a few things left to finish. Let's take a look at how far we've come! The last time I talked about our master bathroom, I shared our design plan for the room... And a few pictures of the different elements we're planning on using in the bathroom... Today though, I wanted to share just how much progress we've made in our master bathroom, and what we have left to do before the room is finished. Just to refresh your memory, here's a look back at what we started with... Here's the ...
Our Spring Home Tour
Who else has been so excited, and ever so patiently waiting, for Spring to arrive? Maybe it's because I spent so much of the winter months sick and isolated to the couch, but I've been so ready for the warmer weather, the green grass, birds chirping and the coming days of planting flowers! I also love sharing our spring home tour. It's refreshing to air out the house, give everything a good cleaning and add in fresh elements that really make the house feel ready for the spring season. Today for our spring home tour, I'm joining Marty from A Stroll Thru Life and the beautiful tour she's created. She planned a whole week of amazing spring home tours. You can tour them all below, but ...
Gluten Free Banana Nut Scones
Boy do I have a treat for you today! For this month's Scone of the Month recipe, I'm sharing these amazing gluten free banana nut scones. I really can't tell you how much we love these! Yum, yum, yum! If you're new here, let me give you a little back story on Scone of the Month. Todd and I both love scones. They're basically one of our very favorite things, and we like to celebrate the weekends by baking a fresh batch of gluten free scones. Because we make them every weekend, I like to get creative with the different scone flavors we try. My favorite mix, by far, is this one. I've tried so many recipes claiming to be the very best, but none of them have ever come close to how ...
Installing & Painting Our Interior Doors
Let's just take a minute to celebrate the accomplishment of installing and painting our interior doors! It's been a long road getting here, but it's such a sweet victory in having every single interior door installed! Let me just tell you, you'll never fully appreciate the function and beauty of a door until you've lived without them for nearly a year! Yes, a year! When choosing our interior doors, I knew I wanted something a little more traditional in style, but we also didn't want to order custom doors. We found our door style in stock at Lowes, and since we've slowly been adding them to each room for the last year or so, it worked best for us to be able to buy them when we needed ...
Organizing Under The Kitchen Sink
I've mentioned before how little storage space our home has, and how it's one of my major house goals this year to get our house better organized to make everyday life less stressful. The first project I decided to tackle, was organizing under the kitchen sink. Not only was it super easy, but just having this small space cleaned up, with everything having a place, has already made this cabinet of our kitchen more enjoyable. But can a cabinet under the kitchen sink really make my kitchen more enjoyable? You bet! It's so nice knowing exactly where everything is, goes and where I can easily direct Todd to, as he searches for something. We have a running joke in the house that he ...
Master Bathroom Design Plan
I can't even explain how excited we are to start on our master bathroom remodel! It's been a project we've wanted to do, but held off from finishing while we prioritized other projects that needed done first. It's finally here though, and I've spent so much time working on the new floor plan for the bathroom, as well as the design plan for the space. Before I share the design plan, and the new layout, let's take a walk down memory lane and look back at where we started... The Master Bathroom Before: When we first bought the house, this room appeared to have been one of the only rooms in the house that had undergone some sort of an upgrade. Even with that said, the ...
Our Project Goals For 2020
Since we're still fresh into a new year, and baby girl will be joining us in July, Todd and I took the time to sit down and go over our house project goals for 2020. We have several spaces and areas we'd like to finish this year, so it felt right to sit down and work up a list so we have a good idea what we're looking at, and which projects we need to budget for. While living in a fixer upper, there's never a shortage of new projects that come up. We tackled so many big things last year... projects that really set the foundation for this house and the direction we see everything going. Now that the majority of those larger projects are finished (yay!), we get to add in all the fun ...
Our Sweetest Gift
We've been keeping a secret... a really big secret. Throughout these last several months, since November really, I've been under the weather... and all for good reason. We have our sweetest gift, a precious baby girl, who will be joining our family in July!! Todd and I are both so very excited, and we can't wait to meet this sweet baby. We've both had our own unique story of arriving where we are today, but looking back now, all the timing makes perfect sense... after all, it's never really in our time frame, is it? All I know, is this moment was the best day of my life... and now it's leading up to the birth of our most precious gift. (Wedding pictures ...
What We’ve Been Up To
Holy cow... it feels like I blinked and we're well into February. It's hard to believe the last time I posted was right before Christmas, but that's how it's gone these past few months. Because I haven't posted in a little while, I thought I'd share what we've been up to and catch you up before we dive head first into new projects! And boy, do we have new projects lined up for the year... Honestly, the main reason I haven't been very active here on the blog or social media, is because I spent nearly the entire month of December, and the first few weeks of January, sick with two terrible colds that I got back to back. It wasn't very fun, but we made it through and I'm so happy to have the ...
Our Christmas Home Night Tour
Is there anything better than the glow and twinkling lights the Christmas season provides? I don't think so, which is why today I'm so happy to share our Christmas Home Night Tour! I'm joining Rachel from Maison de Pax and a group of other amazing bloggers and we're opening up our doors to share all those beautiful, festive lights we love! If you're visiting from KariAnne at Thistlewood Farms, welcome! I'm so happy to have you here. KariAnne has such a beautiful home! It's interesting, isn't is, how much cozier our homes look at night with just the glow of the Christmas tree and a few lamps? It's one of my very favorite things about all the decorations for the season. In my mind, ...
Gluten Free Peppermint Bark Scones
After feeling so crummy from a bad cold these past few weeks, I was relieved when I finally started feeling better. I had such big plans for this Christmas season, and sadly, so many of my ideas were put on hold because of my nasty cold. One thing I promised myself though, was that I'd be able to do some holiday baking and make these gluten free peppermint bark scones for Scone of the Month! Fun fact: Todd and I love peppermint bark. Every Christmas season we'll either buy some or make it, and it's delicious to munch on. Because of that, I knew I had to create a peppermint bark scone with my favorite gluten free scone mix. If this is your first time here, I've shared my love ...
Our Christmas Home Tour
It's time to share our Christmas Home Tour! These past few weeks I've been nestled up on the couch battling a nasty cold and wishing it away so I could start decorating for Christmas and spreading the holiday cheer throughout our home. Inspiration wasn't coming to me easily, but I'm finally on the mend and our house is ready for Christmas... even if I'm still doing some shopping and wrapping! Today I'm so excited to be joining Marty from A Stroll Thru Life and the amazing home tour she's created with 30 other bloggers! If you're joining me from Kristen at White Arrows Home, welcome, welcome! Her Wisconsin cabin is beyond lovely and so cozy during Christmas. I could curl up by her ...
Our Christmas Tree
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We've been quite busy around here working on projects, and today I wanted to share our Christmas Tree with you! A few weeks ago, I shared a peek of our new flocked Christmas tree. It's such a pretty addition to our living room and I couldn't wait to come up with a design plan on how I wanted to decorate it. After debating on it for a little while, I decided to slightly alter my favorite tree from a few years ago. It was such a gorgeous tree and I couldn't wait to recreate it in a few ways. I also took some pictures walking you through how I decorated our Christmas tree. It's always fun to see how things come to life, and these ...
How I Store Fall Decor
As we switch seasons and start decorating for Christmas, I thought it might be helpful to share how I store fall decor. Over the years, I've really narrowed down my fall decorations, but there's still items I like to keep and use. Admittedly, I like to use our everyday items, but just add in a few fall touches here and there, while also adding in real tree branches. But with that said, I do have some faux pumpkins, stems, a collection of leaves I love, and a few glass vases I store each year. While my storage method may not be ground breaking, it's working very well for us, and I know exactly where to find our decor items, and that they'll be in good shape from ...
Gluten Free Turtle Scones
It's time for Scone of the Month, and this month's flavor doesn't disappoint. These Gluten Free Turtle Scones are delightful, and so easy to put together! I've always loved those delicious little chocolate turtles. They're one of my favorite chocolate treats... something about the combination of chocolate, caramel and pecans is so yummy. These gluten free scones have all those tasty flavors, but mixed in with the tender biscuit of the scone. I used my favorite mix for the base of the scones. You really can't get any better with this scone mix... and until I figure out a custom mix that creates the same incredible scone, this is the best mix... hands down, no ...
TGI-Friday: Our New Christmas Tree, Fun Holiday Baking Items, A Great Winter Coat, & More!
Yesterday I decided to put up our new Christmas tree! It arrived a few days before that, and I was torn on when I wanted to put it up since it's a little bit earlier than normal. Excitement to see what it looked like got the best of me and, well, it's now standing tall in our living room. It's such a beautiful tree, and the perfect size for our living room. I've been debating on how I want to decorate it, and I finally have a plan! The next few weeks will be busy getting the house ready for Christmas, and I'll be sharing the tour, and so many other ideas, starting the first week of December! Get ready, because there's so many good things coming! Other fun things: ...
Designing And Buying Our Ikea Kitchen
I'm late in sharing this post, but better late than never, right? Designing and buying our Ikea kitchen was a new experience for us. We'd never went through the process of designing, creating and purchasing Ikea cabinets, and while it was definitely an experience, we're still glad we did it. When we first bought our Willow House, basically everything needed gutted. There really wasn't anything worth saving, and the kitchen cabinets were in really, really rough shape. We knew, just like with the rest of the house, the kitchen would be getting new everything. And because we needed to remodel the house on a budget, we'd be leaning on Ikea for the cabinets because of their solid ...
The Best Flocked Christmas Trees
'Tis the season to start shopping for a new Christmas tree! Since my very tall, beautiful, tree won't fit in our home, I went on a big search to find the best flocked Christmas trees to replace the one I have. I loved my other tree... but with our home having 8' ceilings, there's no way we'd make it fit without it looking like a Clark Griswold tree shoved in the corner. That's not necessarily what I had in mind, so... let's talk flocked Christmas trees! First, let me just lay the ground work and let you know how picky I am about Christmas trees, especially flocked trees. They're not all created equal in the way the flocking is dispersed, and the type of flocking on the tree. I prefer ...
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