Our Home Updates

Slowing Coming Together

So, it’s been a while since I last checked in here. I took a break from traditional blogging and have been working on posting more regularly on my YouTube channel. I’ve been posting a new video every week! Today, I thought I’d stop in a show you a few new bits around our house, which is very slowly coming together!

How to Remove Wallpaper Without a Steamer

How to Remove Wallpaper Without a Steamer

If you remember from the before tour of our new house, you’ll know nearly every inch of our place was covered in wallpaper. The old lady who owned the house before us had a deep love of wallpaper. There were only like 15 different patterns going on and even a border on the ceiling in the kitchen, but who’s counting? Task number one after we closed on the house was remove all…

Bedroom

Master Bedroom Mood Board

I’m so excited for this room! Right now we are sleeping in the guest bedroom while we wait for our new KING SIZE bed to arrive in a week or two. The all caps was me squealing with pure joy. I can’t wait to sleep like a starfish in our new mega blob of a bed. I’ve been dreaming about it. So, for this glorious new master bedroom, I’m hoping…

Refinished Our Old Dresser

Refinished Our Old Dresser

This dresser was actually Joel’s dad’s dresser as a young kid growing up and it was passed onto us when we moved in together a couple of years ago. It’s a wonderful dresser, but the bleach blonde wood color and random crayon drawings on the side that didn’t really go with the rest of our decor. There’s nothing a gallon of paint can’t fix! I chose a sort of muted…

Bedroom: New DIY tufted headborad

Bedroom: New DIY tufted headborad

Our bedroom is bare bones at the moment. What you see in the photo above is all that’s there, but I’m really enjoying a minimalist bedroom. It helps to relax my mind before bed, instead of running with ideas on how to reorganize, like our last place, which was very much on the small side! I kinda want new side table lamps and shades. I really LOVE this base with this lamp…