Yeeeppp.  Like most DIYers, Lisa and I are big fans of Ikea products.  My first bedroom after college was ALL ikea furniture (It’s currently our guest bedroom digs).  For Christmas, my mom bought our daughter the Ikea Moose Rocking Chair.  We’ve put off assembling it for a few weeks with all the floor projects and […]

I can’t believe it’s already New Year’s Eve!  I can still remember starting this blog back in July and wondering if we’d keep it up.  So far so good!  If you haven’t noticed, we haven’t been blogging as regularly as we were back before the holidays… not because we’re closing up shop but because we’ve […]

Just a quick update today… Lisa and I are now on Twitter. You can click the button over there on the left (if you’re not on a mobile) to pull up our profile. We have to come up with a better Twitter picture too, I’m getting sick of looking at this mug. Stop by next […]

So for about the last month, our baby girl has been crawling all over the place.  She’s even walking while keeping her hands on the couches!!  It’s CRAZY!!  At only seven months old now, we’re very proud of our little mover and shaker.  While it’s a ton of fun to chase her around our family […]

While looking through our old photos from our first home, I stumbled upon these pictures of our old bathroom before the big renovation.  For the record, Lisa would like me to stress that this was MY bathroom and not OUR bathroom since it was rehabbed before we got married and she moved in. The before shots: […]

The other day I picked up two awesome countertop height benches at Christmas Tree Shops.  Did you know they are owned by Bed Bath and Beyond? Once I figured this out I did a google search looking for CTS coupons.  Now whenever I know I am going to be shopping there I always search for […]

  Thanks for checking out our new blog!  This site will be a journal of all our home projects large and small.  It is intended to illustrate our progress and provide some clarity to those interested in similar projects. We purchased our new construction home last July (2010) and thought it would be a smart idea […]