I took my mother-in-law on one of my recent thrift shopping adventures. We were actually shopping for her, she wanted to find a new nightstand. But, of course I had fun looking as well. We both lucked out at Charlie’s Used Furniture in Lancaster. As she was checking out nightstands, I was just browsing the […]
Natural and Faux Fall Decor
I already posted some of my Simple Fall Decorating here. But, I didn’t stop there. I added some more touches of Fall to our house, some compliments of nature, and some faux items that I picked up here and there. Our porch is a combination of the two. I filled my flowerpots with pumpkins and […]
Our Basement Retreat
When we bought our home, the basement was unfinished, but we knew that we wanted to finish it some day. Since our house is a ranch home, finishing the basement allowed us to double our square footage. Before we finished the basement, it only was used for storage and a space for my workouts. We […]
Not the look I was going for…
I purchased this little table for $5 during our neighbordhood yardsale. I posted this picture of it before saying it was in process, which was quite a while ago, but DIY does not always go as planned. It had definitely seen better days, but since it was so rough looking I thought it would be […]
Frog City
We have an egress window in our basement, which is the required emergency exit. Its not very pretty to look at, but it provides natural light so we didn’t want to hide it. We tried to dress up the window by adding blinds and curtains, and even went as far as putting pebble stones in […]
