homey
dreaming of a clean closet
.Before the baby arrived, I made a conscious effort to clean up the closet. It certainly didn’t get organized by any means, but all those clothes/shoes/etc. I neglected for 6 months did get sorted and stowed away. But I’m still dreaming of a super organization system in there… and I’ll still get big wide-open eyes [...]
the first big baby reveal… the nursery
Sure there are some more finishing touches to add… but I figured it wasn’t fair not to share all the hard work that Mr. M put into Baby M’s new room. Sadly the photos are still not as nice as I wanted them… but I think they can make do for now! I will fully [...]
adios old… hello stainless!
.Dear Mr. Dishwasher-that-came-with-the-house,
I know you were only a mere 5 years old, but sadly you just never lived up to your potential. We were happy to see that you were in apparently good working order when we came into the house, but that’s when you began to exhibit strange characteristics. Sometimes you just wouldn’t [...]
where to find [insert house item here]
[source: Young House Love].
One of the most daunting tasks of being a homeowner is invariably making your home “yours.” When you’ve relied heavily on the style of IKEA or hand-me-downs… it’s hard to jump out of that box and find what YOU are really all about. Sometimes you can find it in the pages of [...]
holiday in the m house: entryway
.Christmas in our entryroom is an aglow in gold and bronze. We’ve tried our best to keep the room glowing with the orange wall accents, and slowly but surely we’re adding more to enhance the holidays in the room. This year, the ‘not so real tree’ is adorned in a cavalcade of last year’s 75% [...]
the great floor debacle of 2009
I really can’t begin to count the number of times that Mr. M and I have visited flooring stores in 2009… thought we knew what we wanted… and then completely changed our minds and stalled on the whole process. We’d love to replace all of the flooring downstairs somehow, but each time we thought in [...]
