Houndstooth in the Living Room

I talked about one of my favorite fabric designers earlier with a teaser about some green and white houndstooth fabric.  I have finally finished the projects using this fabric  (with the help of my mom).  The fabric is  Square Pegs Kiwi by Robert Allen.  First I decided to recover the seats of our bar stools after I …

Fresher and Younger

I posted last about the changes I made in the powder room to make it feel younger and fresher.  I also changed out the art in the kitchen for the same reason.  I originally had a print up that I have had since college – one of those knock-offs of a famous piece of art …

Under Cabinet Lighting

While living in our apartment, we put up some inexpensive under-cabinet lighting from Ikea.  When we moved into our house we brought them with us, but only installed two of the lights because of the arrangement of the cabinets.  The ugly black cord hung down and the big plug was an eyesore.  I disguised it …

New Lighting

I have the MOST wonderful husband ever!  I came home to find that when Bradley ‘left’ for work this morning, he actually just went to Starbucks until I left to throw me off his sneaky plan.  He spent the whole day doing things around the house for me.  He vacuumed and made the bed.  He bought and …

Kitchen Faucet is In!

Bradley was on the ball yesterday and got the new kitchen faucet installed.  He sent me pictures of his progress throughout the morning: I love it!  We had one extra hole left by the old sprayer so we bought a cover to go over it, but I think it looks fine.  And now that we …