With the big basement re-do behind us, I have been enthusiastically pulling out some of the lovelies I’ve collected over the last eight months to find them a more suitable home than the bowels of my closet.  The first things out and up were my Suzanne Kasler (Suzanne was our girl name and it still… Read More

I’ve shared our basement re-model in bits and pieces over the last eight months and have finally put together a recap of the space that was a year (plus some) in the making! I only have a few pictures of the “before.”  It was much too yucky for me to spend time down there photographing.… Read More

Wanting a little something fru fru in the midst of the somewhat-mod-for-my-taste basement we’ve been renovating for over a year, I embellished some basic white towels in no time flat and for a grand total of six dollars for the newly updated bathroom. I started with plain white bath towels from Wal-Mart. (six-dollars) and plain… Read More

Get a load of our bad bad bath.  Remember that show on HGTV?  Had I owned this bath then, I definitely would have been putting my name in for a much needed makeover.  Truth be told, I never stepped foot in this nasty bath before it’s update.  But from my vantage point at the door,… Read More

Do you ever mentally decorate a place that you don’t own and likely never will?  Maybe I’m just “mental”, but I find myself doing it way too often.  It’s like a favorite past-time for me.  So, go with me here…as I’m savoring the pages of Garnet Hill last night, I decide that if I had a… Read More

I have been anxiously awaiting the day I would say buh-bye to the last of the basement’s heinous blue carpeting complete with forty years of wear, tear and stains.  Ewww, the stains.  So, in a budget conscious and little friendly manner, we (ie. Honey) stripped out the nastiness and painted the stairs and hand rail. … Read More