diy projects Ready to start your next DIY project? This section has you covered with so many different ideas, you may need to create a list and start marking off which project comes next! We’re big fans of DIY projects, so don’t worry, the new ideas will keep coming! Painted Front Door Interior September 23, 2019September 18, 2019 Shayna DIY Projects, Entryway, Painting, Remodeling, The Willow House entryway, Painting, Remodeling, The Willow House3 Comments on Painted Front Door Interior There are a few existing things in our house that we’re temporarily keeping until the time comes to upgrade and replace them… our front door and the stair hand rail being two of them. In ...
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Remodeling
Remodeling We easily bought the worst house on the block… this is our remodeling story and all the projects we’ve tackled to date. Follow along with our journey, and let’s just celebrate how wonderful progress is! Four Reasons We Chose Carpet For Our Bedrooms September 25, 2019September 18, 2019 Shayna Carpet, Remodeling, The Willow House Carpet, Remodeling, The Willow House2 Comments on Four Reasons We Chose Carpet For Our Bedrooms Since I recently shared the tutorial for installing our laminate flooring throughout the house, I wanted to also share the four reasons we chose carpet for our bedrooms rather than installing the laminate floors. To be honest, we thought long and ...
Winter
Winter Christmas, anyone? Here’s your one stop shop for all thing’s holidays! From decorating your home, Christmas tree, front porch or table, this section has the inspiration you need this season! Plus, there’s a few ideas in here too about how to decorate for winter once Christmas is over. Christmas Home Night Tour December 22, 2017July 22, 2019 Shayna Christmas, Seasonal Home Tour, Winter Christmas, seasonal home tour, winter16 Comments on Christmas Home Night Tour One of the best things about Christmas, is watching the glow of the lights in the evenings. There’s nothing more soothing or captivating, and I love the way the happy glow makes the house feel. Today, I’m so ...
Fall
Fall The cozy warmth of fall. It’s one of my favorite seasons to decorate for. With everything from decorating the inside of my home, to our front porch, and entertaining ideas, plus table setting ideas, there’s sure to be an idea you can recreate for your own home this season. Light a candle and let the cozy set in. My Favorite Ways To Nest During Fall October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 Shayna Decorating, Fall Decorating, Fall, NestingLeave a Comment on My Favorite Ways To Nest During Fall I’m such a big lover of fall. There’s so many different reasons to love the season, but there’s something about it that requires us to slow down. The madness of spring and summer fades away ...
Summer
Summer Easily one of the busiest times of the year with so much going on, this is your one stop shop to finding all kinds of decorating ideas for your home, plus fun entertaining ideas! And, anyone else busy working in their yard or garden? Bringing Summer Inside July 14, 2017July 22, 2019 Shayna Breakfast Nook, Decorating, Summer Breakfast Nook, Decorating, summer2 Comments on Bringing Summer Inside One of my favorite elements of summer, is all the gorgeous blooms and green foliage. Even the weeds look amazing this time of year, so lush and vibrant. I recently took a walk around our property and was surrounded by so much beauty! Even though it was a little dark and gloomy, ...
Spring
Spring Throw open the windows and let’s get our home refreshed for the season! From simple home decorating ideas that bring new life into your home, to beautiful Easter table setting ideas, this is the place to gather inspiration and plan your next decorating project. Setting The Table For Easter March 29, 2017July 22, 2019 Shayna Decorating, Easter, Seasonal Projects, Spring Decorating, Easter, seasonal project, Spring27 Comments on Setting The Table For Easter Today, it’s all about setting the table for Easter! I’m joining several other awesome bloggers to share how we set our tables! A big thank you to Lory from Designthusiasm for including me in this Styled & Set ...
Our Fall Home Tour
I've mentioned a couple of times that I've been in major fall nesting mode. It's been a little while since I've been able to do any fall decorating, and this year I was looking forward to getting my hands busy again spreading fall throughout the house. Today, I'm excited to share our fall home tour! I've joined forces with a group of amazing bloggers, organized by Marty from A Stroll Thru Life, and we're all opening our doors to share fall decorating ideas you can use in your own home! If you're visiting from Designing Vibes, welcome! I'm so glad you're here! Erica has such amazing style and I love how she's transitioning her home into fall! It's no secret that it's sometimes ...
How We Installed Our Laminate Floors
Picking out flooring for the new house was one of the very first things Todd and I started doing once we bought the house. Even though there was so much demo and other things we had to start in on, I wanted to make sure we had plenty of time to source flooring we liked. Today, I'm sharing all about our process in picking the flooring we chose, and how we installed our laminate floors! Affiliate links are provided below. Full disclosure here. Like most people, our goal was to find flooring that would be durable, but also reasonable in price so that we'd have money for all the other things this house needed in order for us to move in. We searched high and low to find the best ...
TGI-FRIDAY: A Home Office Update & So Much More
It's time for another TGI-Friday, and this week I'm including a home office update. Honestly, since we've been knee deep in exterior projects, we haven't made a ton of progress, but that's about to change! A little while back, I shared the design plan for the office. We've been buying several of the items, and I can't wait to start putting the room together. One of the big key factors, is going to be getting the closet shelves finished. Right now, it's basically just full of boxes making the room hard to organize. We also need to buy a small filing cabinet, because as much as we've been able to go paperless, there's still papers that need to be kept and filed. I did get the ...
Welcome
Read the blog! Gluten Free Banana Nut Bread Our family favorite recipe made gluten free with my favorite flour blend! Yum! click to read more DIY PROJECTS DECORATING IDEAS Recipes About Me I'm Just a HomeBody, Creating a home we love. Welcome to The Wood Grain Cottage! I'm Shayna... The small town Colorado girl who's obsessed with home and everything that entails! I'm a creative, a decorator, a day dreamer, a huge fan of scones and I'm passionate about loving where I live and making a home.My sweetheart of a husband, Todd, and I ...
Adding A Front Window Box
See how we added character to our home by adding a front window box! My love for this house update ranks high up on the list. Adding a front window box to our big living room window completely transformed the house. I couldn't stop dreaming about adding a window box... I say that with all seriousness. Before we finally pulled the trigger and bought it, Todd heard all about every possible combination of items that could find a home in this window box. I went on about it for days. Since getting the window box installed, that list has only grown as my love has gotten deeper. Now, there's no way we could have just one window box... no way! We'll be adding several more to the ...
Saying Goodbye To The Original Wood Grain Cottage
With all of the changes that happened over the last few years, one of the hardest parts of it was letting go and moving out of my home. I dreaded that day. Often though, the thing we don't want to do the most, is exactly what we need to do... and what leads us on a new journey. Today, I wanted to say goodbye to the original Wood Grain Cottage... the house that not only built this blog... but built me. As many of you may know, it can be incredibly hard and emotional to sell a home you've so lovingly cared for. When I first built the original Wood Grain Cottage, I had no idea what would happen, but I certainly didn't expect for it to change my entire path. Without even knowing it, the ...
TGI-Friday & The Last 5 House Things I’ve Purchased
Friday... Isn't it one of the best days of the week?! In today's TGI-Friday post, I thought it would be fun to share the last 5 house things I've purchased... minus groceries! Even though I haven't been posting on the blog, that doesn't mean I haven't been buying the house some goodies here and there! (Can't stop, won't stop!) But first, let's take a good look at some of the big highlight things we've been up to the past few months... Have I ever told you about my love for scones? If I haven't, I'm not sure what I've been doing. I love scones! I've always been obsessed with them, and I've now, happily, passed that love onto Todd. I couldn't believe he hadn't ever had a scone before ...
Picking Our Interior Paint Colors
When it came to picking our interior paint colors, I knew I wanted to keep a clean, bright interior. So many of the fun and custom touches we'll be adding to the house will come over time, and not knowing exactly what we'll want to do down the road, I wanted to give the house a blank slate that would encourage some creativity. As you might know, picking interior paint colors can be tricky. I've learned over time, through trial and error, that nearly every single paint color looks different in different lighting. Depending on how much natural or artificial light a room has, will change (or highlight) the undertone of the paint color. I have my tried and true colors that I tend to turn to ...
Scraping Popcorn Ceilings & Removing The Carpet
When we initially bought the Willow house, it was really stinky. It wasn't really a smell you could identify as just one thing, but rather layers of odd smells combining into this gross odor. As soon as you walked in the door it hit you, and everyone who walked through it in the beginning would always tell us how bad it smelled.... and we agreed! It's just one of the fun perks of remodeling a neglected home. Our initial plan to tackle the smell, and to start demo'ing the house, was to scrape the popcorn ceilings. All that texture holds bad smells, and several parts of the popcorn ceiling was coated in either grease (in the kitchen), or soot from the downstairs fireplace. A few spots also ...
Introducing The Willow House
If ever there was a true fixer upper of a house that needed TLC, remodeling and updating, it'd be this one. But even with all the popcorn ceilings, stained and utterly gross carpet, water leaks, and outdated heating and A/C, we knew this house had so much potential to be an incredible home. It would need time, money and lots of hard work, but the outcome would be entirely worth it. And I haven't ever been afraid of a house challenge, so... bring it on! I'm so happy to introduce you to The Willow House! The backyard has a beautiful and huge Willow tree, so we've fondly named the house after it. Easily the worst home on the block, we are so looking forwarding to bringing this ...
Christmas Home Tour
In the past, I've gone all out in the house decorating for Christmas. Every little space had something that indicated it was the Christmas season... and while there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, it all adds up to make me feel a little claustrophobic at the end of the day. It also makes me want to put it all away and start with a clean fresh slate right after Christmas. This year though, I toned things down and the house feels so much better... Instead of adding a bunch of Christmas specific decor items, I went with more of a simplified winter theme. And just like I skipped the real tree this year, I also skipped the real garland too. Last year I had such a huge mess to clean ...
Flocked Christmas Tree
For the past few years, my go to Christmas tree has always been a real, live beautiful tree. But I won't kid you, they're not always the best... Last year the first tree we bought for the living room died within a few weeks, after I decorated it and only a week or so into December. I decided I didn't want to stare at a dead Christmas tree all month, so we bought another one and I redecorated it the same way. And then, there's obviously the clean up from the fresh trees. By the time they go out the door once Christmas is over, they're pretty much fried and those needles go everywhere. I decided to go with a fake one this year to save on my sanity, and bought a gorgeous flocked Christmas ...
TGI-Friday
Happy TGI-Friday! This week has been busy! Between all the Christmas posts here on the blog (are you all caught up?), I had a fun Christmas photo shoot Wednesday, and then I've been working on a big living room design for a client of mine! Needless to say, I'm ready for the weekend... and having a schedule free couple of days! I'll be sharing more Christmas decorating next week, but here's a peek from Wednesday's photo shoot. I call this, grab a cookie (or two) and run! Please note: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links, which allows me to make a small commission from your purchase, but your purchase price stays the same. Thank you for helping support my ...
TGI-Friday
I think we can all agree that Fridays tend to be a pretty great day of the week... at least I really like them, ha! I've wanted a way to share random bits, happenings and fun finds on the blog for a long time. And while sometimes those things don't have enough content on their own to make a full post, combing them together makes perfect sense. So, welcome to TGI-Friday, a fun collection of random things I find and love, a place where I share happenings around the house and even some personal bits here and there, as well as a behind the scenes look into my life and projects. It's casual, fun and probably more personal than I've ever been on the blog. Let's do this. I've wanted to ...
Fall Home Tour- Part Two
Today I'm back to share part two of my fall home tour. In my last post, part one, I focused on our kitchen and breakfast nook, but today it's all about our living and dining room. This past spring, our living room underwent quite the transformation. It needed a little refresh, and I'm loving the direction it's going! I've always been a lover of neutral décor, which makes it easy to change up with the seasons. I also love fresh greenery, especially tree clippings. It always adds the best touch. I also really love how the new leather furniture ties in with the cabinets in the kitchen. The combination of white and dark really makes my heart happy, and it works so well with all ...
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