We've turned a corner and the One Room Challenge bathroom reno is looking VERY different this week! I went outside my comfort zone because my comfort zone was feeling boring for this one. We now have beautiful, not-white-or-neutral painted wainscoting in the bathroom!
Keeping up with your physical and mental health while renovating is hard! If you don’t think about strategies for self-care, keeping scope creep in check, budgeting basics and more… you will be exhausted and burned out.
This week on the Your Home Story podcast, we are diving into some strategies that have worked for us and sharing where we’ve failed so that you can make better decisions!
Listen here or in your favorite podcast app: iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, GooglePlay, or Overcast!
Our living room is long and skinny. We have a couch and two side chairs, and a playmat for the baby! It's just not enough seating when we have more than a couple people over. We're always pulling in chairs from the dining room or the tiny storage cubes we keep toys in. I'd love a sectional sofa or big chairs, but there's just not enough room!
So I found a great solution. Beautiful, flexible seating that we can use at the entryway and then pull over into the main seating area for company. I'm sharing this update to our living room (plus a cool DIY art piece I just did) and a round-up of other affordable flexible seating pieces I love!
This post is sponsored by Joss & Main.
We are more than halfway through the 6-week One Room Challenge! We are making great progress on our bathroom reno AND I have a tutorial for you today, with some great tips on how to lay the type of tile we used.
This week on the Your Home Story Podcast, we’re talking about some online stores that you need to know about. We can easily box ourselves into shopping at the same places, but if you want unique decor or are just tired of seeing the same thing over and over again, we will be sharing a few places to shop, hopefully lots that are new to you!
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I'm doing a cool thing! I'll be presenting as a DIY home reno expert at the Home Sweet Home Summit, a 3-day FREE online event October 27-29. And that's just part of it... I am one of 20-something experts across the home ownership, repair, maintenance, renovation, design, landscaping, and organization fields delivering presentations and doing interviews to help homeowners!
You can jump in to one of the virtual sessions and learn from an experienced plumber, real estate lawyer, feng shui expert... all kinds of pros sharing knowledge and answering questions! These is a powerful interview series that can improve your homeownership experience, home value, and of course, home!
Sign up here to get an invite to the event when it begins October 27. It is 100% free to join, and some speakers will be offering freebies and downloadable tools as well. After the summit, you can purchase it to watch everything as much as you like.
I'll be sharing about one of my passions--helping new DIYers build a foundation for meaningful projects that add value to your home. I love a good tract home bathroom reno!
I would love if you'd check out my presentation! Sign up for the Home Sweet Home Summit here!
We kicked off demo and tile last weekend and the bathroom is already looking transformed! I'm working on an tutorial for how to lay medium-sized square tile but in the meantime, wow, I am so impressed by how the patterned tile we chose looks. It was crazy affordable and it's nothing ground-breakingly original, but it really makes a great statement and I am now all excited about patterned tile!
There are also a lot of temporary tile techniques out there these days. I have friends who've painted and stenciled their existing tile, or applied peel-and-stick. I'm sure these are good options sometimes, and it's a huge pain to tear out old tile, but in our houses we've always been replacing vinyl or linoleum, and real tile is the way to go. Tiling is probably #2 on my list of essential hardcore DIY skills (after installing light fixtures). It is NOT that hard! I am all about real tile instead of peel-and-stick if you can manage, and with some of these affordable options, it's a budget-friendly way to elevate a reno and get a high quality look!
This week on the Your Home Story podcast, an exciting reveal.
Ashley’s been working on meaningful, personal updates to her living room for the past almost 2 years! It’s finally feeling basically done and she’s reflecting on the trials and errors and what’s made it really work for their family.
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