Kid’s Room #1: Painting the Door

Bear with me on this post -- it's an intermediary step into making Kid's Room #1 awesome. We began with a light blue door: We had previously agreed on painting the closet doors a bright shade of green chosen by a five-year-old. I was planning on making the closet doors a sunburst (see the circle…

Kid’s Room #1: The Non-Accent-Wall Walls

What OTHER paint do you use when you have an accent wall?? After finishing up the accent wall in Kid's Room #1, we then had to decide what the remaining walls should be. Here's what we're starting with. An accent wall in Sherwin-William's Urbane Bronze. (Forgive the lighting, I still use my phone for photos....)…

DIY Removable Paint Swatches for the Wall

After living in 4 houses where our bedroom was almost always overlooked and rarely put-together, I decided that I would make sure to focus on our bedroom in our new place. It's easier and cheaper than other rooms, so why not? Here's our room now. Lots of light: Jump to the how-to First thing to…

Painted Thank You Note

I know we're in the minority here, but my kids still send out thank you notes. (We only do this if the gifter wasn't there when they opened it. If it's Christmas or a birthday party, and we're all sitting around, they say "Thank You" and we call it a day.) Derek is 3, so…

Kids’ Art Pencil Holder

I am constantly looking for ways to organize our house. This latest trick comes from the kids and the dollar store. It's a pencil holder (or markers, colored pencils, stamps, popsicle sticks, paintbrush, pipe cleaner, you get the idea...) made with a cookie tin from the dollar store and some art the kids made. My…

Fall Bouquet of Watercolor Leaves

The leaves are just starting to change in Pennsylvania and unfortunately for us, a lot of the trees are going straight from green to brown. I wanted a bouquet of foliage to bump up our fall decorations inside. I personally prefer using leaves, pumpkins, and other things from oustide instead of spooky Halloween decorations likes…