We're on the fourth month of our Glidden Home Makeover series, and on Monday we finished painting our converted attic space. Behold, Jai's new office, painted in Blue Cloud and Cool Cobalt: My dad painted these little birds on the wall for me when I was growing up, since this…
February marks month 4 of our Glidden Home Makeover series, and it also marks the start of our more time-intensive jobs. This month, we are working on painting the upstairs portion of our home. This is a converted attic room, which means it is one long, open space. In theory,…
We're on month three of our Glidden Home Makeover series, and this month, we decided to repaint, repair, and convert a "Spare" room into an office. This is the room between my kitchen and bathroom, and due to the many intensive renovations that we've worked on over the years, this…
It's month two of our Glidden Home Makeover series, and for this month's project, we decided to focus on the laundry room. We chose this room as we thought it would be a relatively simple room to paint compared to the rest of the house, and since December is so…
Last month, we announced our Glidden Home Makeover. This week, we completed our first room in the makeover: Our "Dining room". I say that in quotation marks because we don't dine in there at the moment, but when we're done remodeling the kitchen, we will. ;) We picked this room…
As I've mentioned previously, we've been working on home renovations for close to a decade now. Holy cow! Everything we've done has been on our own, and as you know, you can either remodel quickly, or inexpensively...but not both. ;) With the addition of a driveway over the summer, it…
Because my closet and drawer space is limited, it's created some areas of unwanted clutter simply because there's just not enough room! As we work on our home renovations, we plan to optimize and increase our closet space, but in the meantime I have to work with what I've got.…
With the changing of the seasons comes time for quarterly maintenance and household organization. September 8th marked National Clean Out Your Garage Day, an initiative to get garages across the nation cleaned and prepped for winter. September may have passed, but there's still plenty of time to get your digs…
I'm kidding with the title of this post...a little. ;) As I've mentioned before, we've been in the middle of a total home renovation for years. I became a homeowner very suddenly at 19 when my mom passed away. The home needed a little bit of maintenance done to it,…
