Tool essentials for the DIY Dad

Growing up, my Dad was never the most handy guy. I know a fair few people who’s dads are also not handy guys (which is why most of them just called in a professional, see here for more information). Not to say that he isn’t capable, just that working with tools was never really a […]

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Checkin in from #Workcation: First 3 days of DIY

Workcation: work·ca·tion (noun) 1. A period of vacation from normal work activities, not used for rest, recreation, or travel, but rather used to work your house:  Eg. Team Dreamhouse is on workcation right now. This week Kes and I decided to take the week off to knock a huge DIY off our to-do list.  We’ll be installing our radiant in-floor heating system.  We’ll […]

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SPRING FEVER with the PARA Blog Crew

Well it’s finally here! It’s Spring Fever Reveal day & I’m pretty excited to share what Kes & I’ve been slaving over working on! When I think of spring projects for the home, the first things that tend to come to mind are storage and organization.  So when we were tasked with a ‘spring paint […]

Random Acts of Paint: Simple Elegant Family Room Makeover | The Dreamhouse Project

Random Acts of Paint: An Elegant Family Room Makeover

If you’re lucky in life, you’re blessed with the kind of friendship that spans decades. Through breakups, triumphs, & crazy vacations; loves, loses, adventures & many many glasses of wine, I’ve been blessed to have an amazing friend by my side. Angela of Endless Possibilities Image Consulting is one of my closest friends. Friends from childhood we […]

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Heartless Valentine’s Day craft

Okay…I know that in blogging terms this post is probably a few weeks late given that Valentine’s day is tomorrow, but meh – that’s just how I roll.  Actually full disclosure how I usually roll is leaving everything to the last second and then pulling an all nighter to finish just in time for Kash […]

Random Acts of Paint

Random acts of PAINT!

I love the idea that when something good happens you to, you should pay it forward. I feel like if more people tried to live by this one simple philosophy, our world would be a better place.  Sometimes just a simple act of human kindness can go a long way.

We’re in power tool heaven….Introducing RYOBI Tools!

If you were following along with #ProjectSanta on Twitter or Instagram during our laundry room makeover over the holidays you might have noticed a certain logo that kept popping up in our behind the scenes pics…

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New Year, New Goals

Happy New Year!  Before I get into today’s post, I want to take a moment to thank everyone for the overwhelmingly positive feedback on the Laundry Room Makeover project we did as a gift for my parents.  Thanks also to everyone who took the time to enter the giveaway.  Of course there can only be […]

Project Santa: Laundry Room Reveal

Project Santa: Laundry room reveal

The laundry room is complete. It nearly killed us, but after two weeks, an unthinkable number of late nights, an ice storm, a power outage, a stomach bug, and the final push of nearly 46 hours straight, we were able to pull it off just in time for Christmas.

Kes Planning the dry fit space

Project Santa: Laundry room progress + paint

Happy Friday friends!! Well, Project Santa is well under way and if you’ve been following our behind the scenes progress on Twitter and Instagram you know that we created a workspace in the basement to stage and dry fit everything.  By measuring and taping off the dimensions of the laundry room, it basically it gave us a place to plan, […]