Hammertime is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our blog, we may earn commissions. Stephen recently built us two side tables for our newly-covered back deck. We ordered a couch and some chairs, but held off on buying side tables (he knew he wanted to try to make them!). They were super easy! WeContinue reading “Side Table: How-To”
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Painting Project- Window Trim!
I tackled a new project this week… painting the inside window trim of our family room windows! The backstory is that we originally had blinds covering our four windows in the family room, which looked out to the backyard. When we added a roof over our deck, we decided to take the blinds down. TheContinue reading “Painting Project- Window Trim!”
Custom-Built Shelving
Stephen’s first dabbling in building stuff was with shelving. Shelves provide the space for the kind of storage and organization I CRAVE! With having three kids, we have so much stuff… toys! dolls! Legos! electronics! scrunchies! baseball cards!… and the list goes on. The unfortunate thing about our house is that we don’t have aContinue reading “Custom-Built Shelving”
Framing a Frameless Mirror- Again!
Hammertime is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our blog, we may earn commissions. Once our basement was finished, we had to figure out what mirror to put over the bath vanity. We did some research, and dang- hanging mirrors can be so expensive! A 3-4 foot mirror is easily $150, if not more.Continue reading “Framing a Frameless Mirror- Again!”
Farmhouse “X” Side Table
Stephen and I had our basement finished a couple of months ago. Once it was done, we had the fun task of furnishing it. In the TV room, we ordered couches and a recliner chair (Stephen’s fave), but we needed side tables to go between them. Instead of purchasing them, Stephen googled “Farmhouse side table”Continue reading “Farmhouse “X” Side Table”
Turning a Covered Patio into a Screened-In Porch
The first “big”, “official”, “serious”, “what are we thinking??” project Stephen decided to tackle was changing his mother-in-law’s covered patio into a screened-in porch. Luckily, the groundwork had been laid… the concrete was already there, as was the roof and the columns. This made the job so much more do-able by a DIY newbie! StephenContinue reading “Turning a Covered Patio into a Screened-In Porch”
Adding a Room over a 2-Story Foyer
Remember how I said in an earlier post that most of the things we did in the past, we hired out? About 5 years ago, in our old house, we desperately needed more space. We decided to look into putting a room on the second-story, closing up our two-story foyer. Well, this was a BIGContinue reading “Adding a Room over a 2-Story Foyer”
Kitchen Table Re-Do
Hammertime is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our blog, we may earn commissions. We got an oval-shaped kitchen table from Rooms to Go about 10 years ago. It is really nice… the table is counter height, and there’s an expander in it where it can go from being a circle to being anContinue reading “Kitchen Table Re-Do”
Easy Board & Batten
Another quarantine project Stephen and I attempted was adding board and batten in our kitchen’s breakfast nook! We did a lot of research on the best way to install the wood pieces, and figured out a very easy way to make it happen. I started off by painting all of the pieces of wood outside.Continue reading “Easy Board & Batten”
Dining Room Furniture Makeover
Hammertime is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our blog, we may earn commissions. We fell in love with the dining room set we purchased, but once it was in our house, we noticed the “antique white” just didn’t go with the bright white paneling and trim. I got some chalk paint off ofContinue reading “Dining Room Furniture Makeover”
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