Hi friends! I thought you might like to see what we're up to, design-wise, at the moment. We're remodeling a cute little 1978 kitchen (okay, maybe it wasn't that cute). But it originally belonged to Waylon Jennings (am I right, Jan?). It's the home's original kitchen but was shabbily rehabbed in the early 2000's in order to make it more palatable for buyers who like shabby rehabs. I mean, ... View Post
Oh Happy Day
Hi guys! I'll bet most of you already know this, but today is the official day that our issue of American Farmhouse Style magazine hit newsstands! (By "our issue", I mean the issue that features our home and our kitty.) Apparently it hit a few places early, because I saw it at the grocery store a couple days ago and got mine in the mail last week. But. Now it's officially here across the ... View Post
Hi, there!
How has your summer been? In Tennessee, it's almost over if you have school kids, and it won't end until late October if you don't. It's weird like that here. Kids go back to school in early August while the rest of us are wearing flip flops and blasting the a/c until time to decorate for Thanksgiving. This will be our 6th fall here, and I am going in prepared to enjoy fall through the ... View Post
How to Use Barn Doors. Well.
Welcome back, guys! Hope you had a good 4th! I always have good intentions of updating the blog often but then life gets in the way. But, since I know you are on the edge of your seat about this farmhouse/barn door discussion, I thought getting back to it right away might save someone from decking out their whole house in brand new "barn doors" from Lowe's. Though I might be too late because ... View Post
How to Do Farmhouse Without Becoming Trendy
The word "trendy" sounds exciting sometimes, like when you buy a house that's so outdated that some of it has come back into style. It's also great when you have a limited decor budget and happen to find something at Goodwill that's actually "on-trend." Or when your grandma gives you her old dishes and you see similar ones in a magazine. In these cases, trendy is awesome. It gets you back in ... View Post
Pantry Remodel with Open Shelves
Once our kitchen was pretty much done, we started to realize just how irritating our existing pantry situation was. And not in a nit-picky, I-only-live-in-perfect-houses sort of way. In a my-husband-will-lose-it-if-the-garage-door-keeps-slamming-into-the-pantry-door sort of way. When our house was built, it was gifted with an abundance of doors in a very teeny space. There was one standard ... View Post
