When we moved into our home in 2016, we almost immediately updated paint colors and then moved on to renovating our kitchen. We’ve slowly updated the areas we spend the most time in, except our bedroom. We still have the furniture we used in college! Luckily everything held up great and we haven’t had to …
Our closet was a huge upgrade from our previous home. I remember walking into it and being so excited. All that space served us well over the years, but it is time to refresh and upgrade the storage. Our plan is to use the Ikea Pax system to organize it. Before I share the mood …
When we bought our house in 2016, we immediately began planning the projects we wanted to complete within 10 years of living in our home. The bathroom was high on our list right after our kitchen.
So this porch was a hidden little gem when we purchased our home almost 4 years ago now. By hidden I mean when we had our showing for this house (and fell in love with it of course) the porch was FULL of outdoor furniture and other storage items. To be fair, it was March in Minnesota and where else do you put your outdoor furniture when snow is literally covering everything?
Let me just start with this: Oak is beautiful. I feel like it has gotten a bad name lately. I don’t think that it’s the wood itself, its just been over used, especially with the golden yellow-orange stain color of the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Learn how I filled in the oak grain to get a smooth paint finish.
Wow it’s been a while! Life here has been busy! Between fall yard work, designing a house (with my parents–more on that in a bit) and family time, I have missed this for sure.
Learn how I made this massive desk of my DIY dreams. It was so easy except for getting it to the second floor of our house… read all about it!
We’ve all had them, those cheap particle board bookshelves that look nice but if you even think about lifting it with any number of books on it, it will crumble.
I had two left over from my college years that I didn’t manage to telepathically destroy. Read more to learn how I updated them into something that didn’t look at home in a dorm room.
You may not know this about me but I am a proud dog mom. My husband and I adopted Raven a, sweet but sassy, Siberian Husky about 6 years ago.
Read how we built this kennel built fit for even the most spoiled dog.
The project that inspired me to start The Wooden Tangerine… read how we diy’ed our way to a new kitchen.