YOU GUYS. This post has been literal years in the making!! I am dishing everything you could want to know about our DIY Raw Hardwood floors!!
When we decided to use straight from the lumber yard basic 3/4″ maple as flooring in the Merc it did a few things. 1. It gave us unlimited options for patterns (yay!!) 2. It unleashed a million opinions from concerned readers.
I don’t think that it was so much the type of wood/technique we were using as it was the fact that we were leaving them COMPLETELY RAW.
Raise your hand if you love caning! Keep your hand raised if you have NO IDEA how to use it! Get excited and settle in because this tutorial on how to cane is going to blow your mind! Caning is at the forefront of design trends now, and around my circles I havent seen a real tutorial for how to cane furniture. There’s been a lot of hack and glue and staples, but real life caning is a VERY doable DIY. Ready to learn how?!
I have sat down countless times to write this blog post, and it was like my fingers just wouldnt work. I have had so many emails from parents that are worried and families that are in crisis that I know it’s time to share something. Even if we’re still close to it, even though we dont have a 20/20 perspective yet, and even though we are still very much finding our footing and working through stuff.
I know that this is a very public forum. Sharing this is something that we decided as a family. We arent putting our daughter “on blast”. She very bravely opened up about going to Anasazi before we even considered sharing it. I dont know about you but at 16 I was for sure not woke enough to know that sharing the hard thing I’m struggling with could lighten someone else’s burden. As a mother there is nothing in this world that I could be more proud of her for.
This post like all of the posts we share about our story with addiction, is about hope. I mean, what’s the point of going through rough stuff if in the end it doesnt help anyone? Here is our experience. We hope with our whole hearts that it can help one of you!
Our 16 yr old daughter was struggling. Without going into to too much detail (honestly it’s irrelevant now that we’ve experienced Anasazi) we were completely lost with how to help. For years we had tried all of the things that people suggested and it just wasnt helping her. Knowing what I know now, there was no way that she could change without our family changing as well, but that is what we kept trying to do. Change her, fix her. The reality is that our whole family was in crisis. We ALL needed to be changed.
There are a few things that instantly make a room feel special and right. You know? Like BAM! Leveled up. Bookcases do that. Built in bookcases do it to the 100th degree. Today I’m going to show you how we took basic Billy Bookcases from IKEA and turned them into the most perfect built in you’ve ever seen.
Everyone has favorite family Christmas traditions right? Some people reenact the nativity, some go caroling, some have a special Christmas Eve dinner.
Us?
We dress up in wildly inappropriate clothing and take family pictures! Oh yes, it’s time to share our 2019 Family Christmas Picture!! This year we’re taking it to the rink with our Roller Derby themed photo!
One of my favorite elements of the Clifford’s Kid Friendly Office is the wall to wall peg rail + picture ledge! I have had so many questions about it and I am THRILLED to tell you that even the most beginner DIYer can tackle this this project! Let’s get into the how-to so you can add this to your home!
I am over the moon to share with you this year’s Sherwin-Williams Save Me room makeover! If you’re new to the game, let me bring you up to speed! Every year I partner with the best paint company in all the land and overhaul a lucky winner’s space. Last year we tackled Amy’s Living Room, and this year we are at the Cliffords, turning a bedroom-that started out as an office- back into an office/playroom!
