Welcome!
We’re Lindsay + Tyler, and in 2019 we moved to a teeny tiny town in Tennessee to renovate a house that is slowly becoming our dream home!
We love all things earthy, neutral, cottage-y and hygge, and when we’re not struggling through a new DIY, we’re backpacking, traveling, or smothering our dog/firstborn child, Lily!
Follow along for technical walkthroughs of all our home DIYS, and honest explanations of our successes and failures – there have been plenty of both!
How Much Did Our Kitchen Renovation Cost
IT. IS. TIME. If this is your first time on the blog, welcome! Back in early 2020, we gutted our kitchen just a few months after moving into our house. You can see all the before and afters here, but this post is gonna be ALL about the money!! I’ve gotten some (very polite!) messages…
KITCHEN REVEAL!
I can’t believe how far we’ve come. This process has been simultaneously one of the most stressful experiences of my life, and also one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. If you’re looking for all our kitchen sources + our EXACT budget, you can find that in THIS post! I’m writing this post…
How To Paint Semihandmade Cabinet Doors
This is a pretty long, technical post, so we’re jumping right in for this one without much of an intro: if you want to know how to paint Semihandmade Doors for Ikea cabinets, we’ve got EVERYTHING you need right here! HOW TO PAINT SEMIHANDMADE CABINET DOORS MATERIALS PPG Breakthrough 250 in Satin, or “V50” finish…
Tips for Designing + Ordering an Ikea Kitchen
We will forever stan all things Ikea. But planning and ordering an Ikea kitchen never comes without its fair share of headaches and little Ikea quirks. So grab some Swedish meatballs and a cinnamon bun, and let’s get down to business: Tips for Designing + Ordering an Ikea Kitchen 1.Move slowly and save often. The…
ALL About Our Cabinet Paint + Sprayer
Never in my life did I think I’d have to learn this much about paint. I had long conversations with PPG reps and salespeople. Spent hours and hours reading forums and watching videos. Drove to 5 or 6 different stores trying to get the best price… And in the end, I ended up feeling really…
Our Mudroom Renovation Plans
Guys, I am SO EXCITED for PHASE 2 of this renovation! Our mudroom, downstairs bathroom, and laundry room/butler’s pantry: 3 rooms, about 300 square feet… And we’re gutting all of it. I have always had a weird obsession with mudrooms + multi-purpose entry spaces. When we first looked at the photos of this house online,…
All About Our Stuga Floors!
I LOVE picking out flooring. I think flooring can make or break a space, and it can change the character + feel of a house SO much… for better or worse. This felt like the biggest decision we’d have to make in designing our house, and we definitely felt the pressure. In our last house, we…
5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Painting Our Kitchen Cabinets
5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Painting Our Kitchen Cabinets Here we go, folks. The thing I was MOST nervous for in this kitchen renovation: painting our kitchen cabinets. I had no idea how to paint Semihandmade cabinet doors, but I spent hours and hours on the phone talking to professional painters, reading paint…
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