How to Choose an Exterior Paint Color for a Garage Door. Choosing to paint your garage doors is an inexpensive way to update the exterior of your home and make it feel renewed and fresh. We had a pretty nice garage door color to begin with but I felt like it needed an overhaul —especially …
Home Improvements
Backyard Renovation on a Budget. My husband’s backyard was a disaster when I met him. Pretty much the whole house had been somewhat demolished (to be renovated), but then he got busy at work and his company sent him out of town a lot. He just didn’t have the time to really work at it. …
Inexpensive Living Room Renovation Before and After Home 2 I’m jumping back in time to write about how we renovated my husband’s fixer-upper home. He had it went we met. I had completed my Home 1 renovation and sold for a profit, so we decided that instead of selling it in its demo state when …
My Favorite Kitchen Tools That Cost Less Than $1.00. Running a household is expensive—especially when you have kids and/or pets. I’m always trying to find less expensive options for items that I routinely use. These are my favorite kitchen tools and cleaning items that cost under $1.00 (as of 2022). They are high-quality and do …
I wanted to make a blue and white Christmas tree… here’s how it turned out. To decorate this tree like I did, I began buying inexpensive ornaments, tulle and ribbon that fit the color scheme. Blue is one of my favorite colors. I love especially love blue paired with white and other peacock colors. So …
Below you will see the before and after on our white brick lime wash with copper gutters and lights— exterior home renovation. I bought this home 4 years ago and have been wanting to remodel the exterior ever since. In the first year, the interior underwent a lot of remodeling. You can see many of …
Below I show the 4 Bedroom Renovations on a budget Before’s and After’s of our fixer upper (Home 2)—including photos, costs, and items used to stage the bedrooms. My husband and I turned his fixer-upper-home which he had bought a few years before we met and hadn’t had time to ‘fix up’ into a nice …
Below you will see how we renovated the Front Exterior of Home 2 Before and After. My husband bought a fixer-upper home a few years before he met me. His daily job was very demanding and he was working a lot over those few years so he never got around to fixing it up. After …
Below you will see the Before and After Dining Room Renovation of Home 2 and how we remodeled it for around $2,000. When we were renovating my husband’s house, it was clear that the layout needed to be changed. I wanted it to be a 3 bathroom house instead of a 1 bathroom home. I …
Kitchen Renovation Before and After—Home 2 When renovating my husband’s house, (what I call Home 2), I was hoping we would achieve a stylish, affordable, and practical renovation. After looking at comps, we found that my husband had bought in a neighborhood where granite/quartz, over the stove elaborate ranges, etc. were not in any of …
Most of my readers know that I try to be efficient. I’m not one of those women who just LOVES to clean. I do love a clean house and once I get going I feel great that I’m doing it, but if I can take less time cleaning the same space, I’m all for it. …