Garage in flux

So, I built the miter saw table as step 1 in a very multi-step plan to reorganize the garage. Since then the garage project has grown even more. I thought I was going to tear out the workbench that was in the little nook in our garage and replace it with something more useful for me and then be done. But... then I stared at it some more and decided...

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Miter Saw Table

So, it's fall! And as much as I love fall and am actually making a bigger effort this year to live in the moment of fall and enjoy it for what it is without thinking of it as a precursor to winter, I do have to admit that winter is coming. And that means it would be nice if we could use the garage to, you know, put cars in. Since the garage is...

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Range hood

I LOVE SPRAY PAINT! I already showed you the fun transformations I made on the porch chairs - now here's another! When we first bought this house, redoing the kitchen was high on our to-do list! However, buying a house was a huge stretch for us and a full kitchen reno was out of the question. Instead, we replaced the cabinets and counters and then...

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Console Table

After I built the shoe shelf for the coat closet last year, I was immediately addicted to building! Within the next month, I built two end tables for our family room, a see-saw for the kids, and a console table for next to our back door! (This also fell over the government shutdown, so Brad was home and so I had a little more flexibility with my time!) For...

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Cube End Table

It's hard to believe that, with all of the furniture and accessories I've bought at Ikea over the years, this is my first "Ikea Hack." And it's made from Lack tables - so I get to call it a "Lack Hack" ... and that's just fun. Lack Hack.  ... Sometimes it's the small things that amuse me. Anyway, I saw versions of this table one day when...

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Birthday See-Saw!

For our younger daughter's 4th birthday, I decided to build a see saw using Ana White's plans. She said it was a super quick build - only took her 45 minutes! I'll say it took me a few of hours a tad bit longer than that. But it was only a month after my first build, and I'm no expert carpenter! :) This project taught me a lot about keeping...

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Whale Painting - Kids Craft!

We spent a wonderful few days in Maine this summer with Brad's parents - what a beautiful place! As a gift and special souvenir, one of Brad's parents' friends made the girls solid wood whales! He left them unfinished so that the girls could paint them themselves. It was such a special gift and the girls have been looking forward to painting them....

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The Coat Closet - my first build!

Our coat closet is one of those spaces that always felt like a work-in-progress. There has been a LOT of staring involved in this one... When we toured this house before we bought it, I loved that the previous owners had installed a second rod low enough for the kids to hang their own coats - brilliant! Once we moved in, I was less excited that...

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