It's Week 3 of the $100 Room Challenge and The Great Purge happened! The Monica Closet is *finally* cleaned out! {Insert happy dance here!} Can I tell you how amazing it feels to be able to walk in the Monica Closet? Cleaning out the Monica Closet took some time to do, but this room is slowly coming together. Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 For your convenience, this post may contain affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Read my full disclosure policy here. Thanks for … [Read more...]
$100 Room Challenge | Farmhouse Style Guest Bedroom Plans
Did I scare you away yet with my secret Monica Closet?! I hope not, because I've got big plans for this room! From unorganized, choatic clutter to a fresh, clean and organized farmhouse style guest bedroom is the plan! $100 Room Challenge: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 With any big project, I like to start out with a solid plan. Decide what your vision is and then shop for materials to make sure you stick to your budget. My vision is a farmhouse style guest bedroom with shiplap … [Read more...]
Never Before Seen Pictures of My Monica Closet
It's confession time and we're about to become BFFs forever, ok? Have I told you about my Monica Closet? It's a hot mess, which is why I'm finally going to tackle the Monica Closet and turn it into a guest room for the $100 Room Challenge this month! What is a Monica Closet? If you watch "Friends" then you probably already get the reference. Right now you may be picturing the scene where an OCD Monica Geller has a secret closet that's messy! One day Chandler discovers the secret closet … [Read more...]
Our House: Two Years Later
Yesterday marked two years since we've moved into our little house! I can't believe it's already been that long. I still remember looking at probably two hundred or more houses like it was yesterday. When we first moved into the house, I was not a fan of it. Mainly because it wasn't my historic house that I've always dreamed of and the poop brown walls certainly didn't help! Well, Mr. Sweet Southern Oaks promised me we could paint the rooms and do some updates to the house. So room by … [Read more...]
$100 Room Challenge: Farmhouse Style Bathroom Reveal
Hip, hip, hooray! It's reveal day for the $100 Room Challenge! The $100 Room Challenge was just that- a challenge- a fun one! I decided on a farmhouse style bathroom and I love the end result! With a budget of $100 dollars and one month to update one room, several other bloggers and I got together to share our projects with y'all! It was a fun challenge that I'm sure inspired you to get creative with a room in your house! The key to the $100 Room Challenge is to use items you already … [Read more...]
How to Frame a Bathroom Mirror
We did it! We finally framed the builder grade mirror in the master bathroom for part of the $100 Room Challenge! It's been something I've wanted to do since we moved in, but I kept putting it off because we didn't have a miter saw. We did it though! We framed the bathroom mirror and it wasn't as hard as I thought. I'm going to show you how to frame a bathroom mirror without making miter cuts! For the $100 Room Challenge, I knew I wanted to frame out the builder grade bathroom mirror … [Read more...]
How to Whitewash Wood
Do you want to make new wood look old? I love the look of old, whitewashed wood and it couldn't be easier to make new wood look aged and worn by using a whitewash technique! Now that I've done it, I want to whitewash all the things! Today, I'm going to show you how to whitewash new wood. A whitewash was traditionally used in interior and exterior cottages and dairy barns. It is actually a lime wash, made of lime and water and has been used in historic houses for centuries because it is … [Read more...]
How to Spray Paint Cabinet Hardware
I have gotten so many emails and messages after posting how to paint kitchen cabinets and y'all wanted to know if I changed out the hardware. My secret is out: it's spray paint! Yep. Everyone thought we got new hardware! Spray painted hardware couldn't get any easier for a DIY and they look brand new! Let's learn how to spray paint hardware! While new hardware would be nice, it's not like we had a couple hundred bucks to buy new hardware. Of course I couldn't ignore the aged, chippy … [Read more...]
How to Paint Kitchen Cabinets
Do you have old wooden cabinets that need a refresh? Or do you want to make your kitchen feel lighter and brighter? Maybe even larger? With some paint, a weekend or two and a lot of determination, you can transform your kitchen by painting the cabinets. Let's learn how to paint kitchen cabinets like a pro! In full disclosure, we have a very small kitchen so we were able to paint all of our kitchen cabinets in one weekend. That may not be the case for you because it all depends on the … [Read more...]
Dining Room Light Fixture Reveal
I'm so excited to reveal our new chandeliers we got for the living room and dining room! The new light fixtures add the elegance these rooms were lacking. The best part is that I got each light fixture on Amazon for under $200.00! Sometimes all it takes is new lighting to transform a room, and that's exactly what these beautiful chandeliers did for our rooms! I bought both chandeliers from a previous blog post, 10 Light Fixtures Under $200.00 on Amazon that you can find HERE. I kept … [Read more...]