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Playhouse Bunk Bed Progress | One Room Challenge Week 3

Week three of the One Room Challenge was the most exciting yet! We finished building the playhouse bunk bed structure! The bed finally looks like a playhouse, it holds 2 …

Shared Bedroom Mood Board | One Room Challenge Week 2

This week’s progress on the shared bedroom was consumed with building our massive, playhouse bed. It was quite the roller coaster as we tried to recreate a bed that was …

October Amazon Favorites

We love a good deal. Tori loves reading hundreds of reviews, comparing different products, and finally landing on the one she knows will fit our needs the best. She also …

Shared Kids’ Room Ideas and Before Photos: One Room Challenge Week 1

We are so excited to create a shared kids’ room in our house and participate in the One Room Challenge this season! We’ve followed several seasons of the ORC and …

How to Replace Drywall

If you are updating bathroom or kitchen tile, learning how to replace drywall is essential. It’s nearly impossible to remove any old tile without damaging your drywall, and you need …

How to Install Countertops

Installing countertops is a simple, beginner-friendly project. Learning how to install countertops can save yourself hundreds of dollars and is relatively easy to do if you have a few extra …

Neutral Fall Decor Home Tour

Decorating my entire house for fall takes about 1 hour. I LOVE neutral fall decor because I don’t want my home to scream fall. I just want the seasonal decor …

How to Seasonally Style Your Bed in 5 Minutes

Our home has VERY limited storage, so we don’t have the space to store tons of seasonal decor. We definitely don’t have room to store different sets of bedding for each season/holiday. Plus, if we’re being honest, we only make our bed once a week when we change our sheets. It just doesn’t make sense for us to spend the time, money, or space on multiple sets of bedding when it’ll mostly end up piled on the floor or the foot of the bed.

DIY Wood Accent Wall

This DIY accent wall is great for beginners! It doesn’t require precise cuts and can easily be done in a weekend. The wall is extremely budget-friendly, and it’s easy to customize it to fit your space. We’ve seen similar walls done in nurseries, entryways, and living rooms. For a more subtle effect, or to work in a more visually busy room, paint the wall treatment the same color as the rest of the room and it will create awesome texture in the space without a bold statement.

DIY Vertical Faux Shiplap

This tutorial explains exactly how to install a budget-friendly, vertical faux shiplap and it even has an incredible, free project calculator that will make this project 100x easier. If you hate math, this is the tutorial for you.

The vertical faux shiplap in our bathroom is the boldest color in our whole home and we love it! This is our kids’ bathroom, so we wanted it to have some personality. It’s a tiny space and it seemed like the perfect place to do something totally different from the rest of the house. We were inspired by this Emily Henderson design, but since we already had one blue wooden wall in our home, we knew we wanted to take it in a different direction.