Have you started decorating for Christmas yet? If you’re like me, you do most of your decorating the day after Thanksgiving. Having said that, it’s never too early to start planning! Since I like to try different looks for my fireplace each year, I find it helpful to look back at previous years. If you…
Is it just me or doesn’t it seem like spring should arrive right after Christmas? Instead here in New Jersey, we have had spring-like weather all the way through Christmas and now it’s finally starting to get cold! Oh well! Either way, we are in that ‘hard to decorate season’ where you don’t want to…
Happy October everyone! Now that fall is in full swing, I thought I’d share my simple and casual fall mantel with you! Come take a look… Simple and Casual Mantel for Fall: Today is a day of firsts around here… The first day of October… The first October that I could decorate my new stone…
As I’ve gone through the planning process, I had all kinds of ideas for my new fireplace. In the end, I compromised with my husband and wound up going more rustic than I had planned. Although I was happy with the results, I did feel the stone ended up a little darker than I would…
Since we were changing our floors to hardwood, we thought it would also be a good time to give our fireplace a makeover! Here is our fireplace before and after transformation: BEFORE: Here is an unattractive ‘before’ picture from demo day…because we all know it’s much more dramatic having an ugly ‘before’! Otherwise, I might…
If you are following along, you know we are in the process of renovating our kitchen. Since we are ripping out the floors in that room to replace them with hardwoods, we decided to also replace the flooring in most of the adjoining rooms. And…since the floors are coming out anyway, we also decided to…