Last week, we upgraded our secondhand kitchen table to a bigger, more modern dining table from Plank+Beam. Since it was our first time buying furniture from this website, I wanted to share our honest experience so that you have the inside scoop. Spoiler alert: we LOVE our new table. Our old table We already have a table in our dining area, but it’s always been sort of a placeholder. When we first moved out of our parents’ houses and into our home when we were newlyweds, we had no furniture. I remember saying to Pete, “We have nowhere to...
Last week, we upgraded our secondhand kitchen table to a bigger, more modern dining table from Plank+Beam. Since it was our first time buying furniture from this website, I wanted to share our honest experience so that you have the inside scoop. Spoiler alert: we LOVE our new table. Our old table We already have a table in our dining area, but it’s always been sort of a placeholder. When we first moved out of our parents’ houses and into our home when we were newlyweds, we had no furniture. I remember saying to Pete, “We have nowhere to...
Hello again! It’s been a little while since we’ve blogged, but we’re back with some mini updates! We hope everyone enjoyed the warm summer months as much as we did. Rather than working on house projects, we spent most of our weekends visiting Cape Cod, Maine, and spending time with our families. We took Sadie on lots of hikes, I trained for a half marathon, and we went out for ice cream as much as we could! Basement flooring Our Instagram followers know that our latest house project was redoing the flooring in our basement. Is it done? Yes...
If you’ve been following our Instagram stories lately, you know that we recently bought an upholstery cleaner. We’ve had our eye on the Little Green Proheat cleaner by Bissell for a while, so when we noticed it on sale on Target (thank goodness for those personalized ads that you get on social media, or we probably wouldn’t have noticed!) we figured it was time to buy it. We have always been big fans of Bissell products. When we first adopted our dog, Sadie, we realized it was time to add a carpet spot cleaner to our cleaning arsenal (things...
Do you ever feel like a room in your house is missing something? Well, we’ve always felt that way about our bedroom. It was the first room we painted when we moved in, but for some reason, it never felt finished. We painted the walls a pretty warm-toned gray (Collingwood by Benjamin Moore), the ceiling got a fresh coat of white paint, and all the trim, windows, and closet doors went from dark wood to Ultra Pure White by Behr. It was a great start, but the room still didn’t feel complete. It wasn’t until recently that we realized...
When we first bought our house, we knew we had a lot of painting ahead of us. All of the ceilings and walls needed a fresh coat of paint to clean things up, and the trim and windows were a dark wood that just didn’t match our style. Light and airy was the goal. Rather than buy new windows, we took the economical approach and painted them! Here are the steps we followed: Step 1 – clean the windows. Using a damp rag, wipe down the wood to remove dirt and dust. If the windows are particularly dirty, consider...
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