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They aren’t even plants that need a ton of light, but dangit they LOVE IT if you do have it. I’m just now realizing the two vents we added upstairs aren’t really that visible in these photos so I’ll share some more pics on Instagram Stories soon for you (I’m currently searching for prettier vent covers – will report back with whatever I get). One vent is right at the base of the TV cabinet, which you can see in the background of the photo above. And one is on the other side of the room on the wall when you come up the stairs (if the photo below had a foot more of space on the left, you’d see it right there in the wainscotting). The family room mini-split rec was especially surprising to us because there were three old HVAC ducts that led up to this family room in existence already – two of which you can see in the before pic below! But they were skinny old ducts that attached to our non-functional system.
How To Add Easy Board & Batten
Here’s how it all looked after a few years of upgrading it. As for what we did, we arranged those shelves and painted the back wall of the built-ins. We also added a giant 70″ table, some $62 patio chairs (from Target on clearance), and some homemade curtains with a fun bold print.
Making An Arts & Crafts Room For Our Kids
Upstairs, the keyword is minimal I think this year. I just put out a tray of ornaments and some small bottle brush trees and called it good. Some are bottle brush, some are wood, some are ceramic, and some are mercury glass.
Our Family Room Is An Office, Art Room, and A Movie Room
We also updated the old chandelier by painting it a rich indigo color and adding a large drum shade, stenciled the walls, painted & reupholstered our thrift store desk chairs, and added sentimental art. Here’s the hall bathroom when we finished (we remembered to white balance the camera this time, hence the brighter pic). First we removed the weird off-centered bar under the window, added some window trim for balance, and raised the shower curtain for some extra drama and height.
Sherwin-Williams Pure White (SW – The Best Whole House White
Also if you’re in the market for a classic parson’s desk that’ll stand the test of time – this is it. We have loved this desk solidly for a decade and a half and it’s so flexible – it can basically go anywhere (which is why we saved the original legs – who knows where it’ll end up in a few more years!). We thought it was a shame to lose all that valuable storage space, so we sealed the cinder block walls, painted the floor, and brought in some affordable furnishings.
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Splurge (or save) on modern florals for your home.
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I love these things and remember packing them within an inch of their life when we moved here because I never want anything to happen to them. Here’s that same space now that we built a deck, got it furnished, and switched out that old broken slider for a brand new french door. We later stained & sealed the deck to finish things off. There was a weird alley between the original part of the house and the addition that was added in the seventies, and this is a shot we took during our first walk-through.
Star Jasmine – Plant Growing & Care Guide
It’s short, and there’s no narration, so you can watch it on mute if you’re at work without missing anything. I don’t think we show this angle much either, so here you go. That white console table used to be in our last house’s dining room, and the drawer is full of spare light bulbs and extension cords. You know John requires a special spot for those, right?
Easy DIY Window Plant Shelf
It’s wild to think that this is our second year of decorating this house for the holidays (what even is time?!). You got a peek at some of it in our new kitchen door post, but today we’re gonna show it all! I’d describe Year Two in this house for the holidays as a more minimal Christmas but still a festive one. Glad you’re making podcast episodes again, even if they won’t be weekly. I will say, even if you don’t do as many DIY projects as before, I would find it interesting to listen to more regular content about your broader lifestyle and approaches to living happily as a young family.
The Best Christmas Trees, Lights, & Holiday Decorations
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And we’ve got plenty of photos to show how much it changed (hence the roundup of before and after pictures below). We also made an interior and exterior floor plan, along with a video house tour that we filmed right before we moved. The kids put their stuffed animal “Burger” here the first night that we put up the tree and I cried real tears.
It was very graceful and not at all awkward looking. This view certainly has come a long way from February of 2020 when we bought this house. Photos never do this room justice, to the point that almost everyone who comes up here after seeing photos online (or just via texts from us) screams that it’s twice as big when they’re standing there in person. If it helps to orient you, the rug you see the sofa sitting on in the photo below is an 8 x 10! So we enlisted some free labor on Craigslist and had the yard cleared in an afternoon. Then we planted some grass for a simple and scenic area that’s a lot easier to maintain (see a full exterior breakdown here).
The bookshelves fit really well between the windows on that long wall, and their larger scale is great in this room (earlier we had some smaller things on those slices of wall – which you can see here in this post). Here’s the sunroom after painting the walls and ceiling, unifying the odd patch of brick on that back wall with more paint, adding some art, and bringing in some functional storage. While we’re praising things we’ve had for a long time that are SO FLEXIBLE for multiple uses and spots in your home, these Fjalkinge bookshelves from Ikea are the GOAT. They can hold plates and cups and cookbooks in a kitchen, crafting & art stuff as well as home office supplies in an office or craft room, and books & decor stuff for any sort of living space.
Like our instinct in this room was to place it BETWEEN THE WINDOWS but it’s so much nicer of a view to look outside now – versus staring at the slice of wall between two windows before (you can see the old placement here). They dripped often, had various musty smell issues, and towels wouldn’t dry in our bedroom but would dry in the other bedrooms with central air. And here’s a before shot of the long wall of the room, which came with that pretty wood treatment that we love, but the mildewed issues along the top needed some attention. This entire house didn’t have a functioning HVAC system (or any working water, like not even to flush a toilet). It had been abandoned for four years, so there were a number of leak/mold/soggy drywall issues that we had to address in this renovation before we could move in (you can read more about that here and here).
And just because you have kids or pets doesn’t mean you’re sentenced to floors that are overrun with toys or furniture covered in plastic. Through never-before-seen makeovers in our own house, doable DIY projects, and a gallery of other inspiring spaces, Lovable Livable Home shows how beautiful homes can be functional too. I realized I didn’t show you how the other side of the tree looks, but you can see from this pic of the kids starting to decorate it that it doesn’t really get in the way of anything. We have a big potted plant here the rest of the year, so the only real difference is that the tree is taller. But nobody was walking into that corner nook before, so it’s all good function-wise.
The entire makeover came in at just $930 (including sealants, paint, two armoires, a desk, a bookcase, and a slew of accessories). We also raised the shower curtain, removed the linen closet door, turned a night table into a vanity, and DIYed our own vintage-inspired art. Lovable Livable Home also includes photos and info about our living room makeover, along with a few other spaces like our guest room, our garage, our hall bathroom, and our half bathroom (which might be our favorite update of all). And here’s the quirky little yellow guest bathroom that was attached to the guest bedroom. We decided to work with the vintage tile since it was in great shape and actually charmed us after living with it for a while, but to lose the dated and dingy look.
This room was a formal living room with a dining room behind those built-ins when we first saw this house, but we converted the formal living room into an entryway/dining room by adding a huge opening on the left wall that leads into the kitchen. And the back room that was once the dining room became our home office thanks to the addition of a big built-in desk. And I’m happy to report that both the bedroom and the living room are more comfortable than they used to be. Their temperatures were rarely similar to what was going on in the other four rooms when this house was on three separate systems, and now they’re all much more in sync. You might even call this house Justin Timberlake (I’m really sorry. I couldn’t resist that one). The icing on the cake is that towels actually dry on the hooks on the back of our bedroom door now.
It took us about four months, but we chugged along. Here’s the reveal post with a ton of budget and source details. Oh yeah and then we got some craigslist swivel stools and added a homemade basket pendant light in the fireplace area and repainted the walls (the second time was the charm).
