This post is 15 months overdue! Last winter, my dad came to stay with us for 3 months and renovated our kitchen. 15 months later, we still are in love with the results, and I'm finally here to tell you allll about it! Get your beverage of choice, you're gonna be here awhile. This is long. Like, long long. Long long long. I've talked about our kitchen a bit before. Here's the "before" before, when we moved into our ... Read more »
The Golly Ranch House
Inspiration finally, two years later
I'm back from vacation and I'm INSPIRED! Two years ago, we went through the looong process of transforming a large part of our basement into studio spaces for ourselves. Back then, I did a few posts on it—sharing the dirty 'lil before photos, the planning and build-out phase, and creating my dream cutting table. But I haven't shared anything about it since. The truth is, I absolutely love my sewing and craft space ... Read more »
Creating my dream cutting table for sewing
Hello! I'm back from a relaxing vacation in the Southwest, where it was so relaxing, in fact, that we spent more time enjoying ourselves than bothering to take photos! But I may be able to cobble together a post from phone photos, so possibly stay tuned for that in the future. Now I'm continuing my basement makeover posts! When last I left things, you got to see the planning and build-out phases. And today *drumroll ... Read more »
Basement studio makeover: planning and “build-out”
I thought I'd continue my basement studio makeover posts (catch up with the first one here) with the planning and the "build-out" phase where we actually assembled and moved everything around, both of which took ages! Not necessarily the most glamorous topics, either. But I feel like many people just do "before and after" shots and you don't actually get to learn much about the nitty gritty along the way, and how they ... Read more »
Basement studio makeover: dirty little “before” photos!
Hello, everyone! Boy, have I been busy these last several weeks! We've been knee deep in giving our basement studio spaces a BIG makeover. And suddenly the weather went from marginal spring (great to seclude yourself in the basement) to summer (oops, would rather be out doing fun things) in about 10 seconds flat, and I feel like I'm behind on literally everything. With a vacation coming in mid-June I suspect I'm going ... Read more »
Tour of our retro kitschy kitchen!
Ready for our kitchen reveal?? Okay, "reveal" makes it sound like we did a big remodel. We didn't. We really we just painted, hung up some new blinds and installed a new doorbell. But if you've seen my previous two kitchen posts (where we painted and the "before before" photos), you may agree it's a pretty big change! Especially since that old paint kept me from ever sharing the kitchen on my blog. And now, a little ... Read more »