Category: Home & Garden

Our Living Room Inspiration | California Casual

Are you looking for casual living room inspiration? Check out the inspiration for our relaxed living room do it yourself renovation. We’re loving a California casual interior design style! California casual living room designs incorporate rustic, traditional, and warm farmhouse living room elements. I was inspired by modern farmhouse family room ideas and a timeless pottery barn style. Click here if you’re looking for comfy living room ideas for your renovation! #diydesign #livingroominspiration

Well, here we are neck-deep in planning and starting renovations for our home! If you happen to follow me on IG then you may have seen us ripping out floors in my stories. First to come is our family living room.  We spend the majority of our time here as a family of 6… so […]

DIY Bathroom Sink Cleaner | Natural Soft Scrub

Are you looking for a natural sink cleaner or simple sink cleaning hacks? Look no further! With only 3 simple ingredients, this is one of the easiest homemade cleaning products to make. This do it yourself soft scrub tubscrub is made with essential oils and baking soda and is great for your non-toxic home. Natural cleaning products are popular but can be expensive. Did you know it’s actually quite cheap to DIY your all natural cleaning recipes?

I am not the best housekeeper… that’s really no secret. BUT one of the things I really wanted to prioritize was deep cleaning on a more regular basis because there is nothing beautiful about a nasty dirty home. The problem is I wasn’t sure how I could have a clean home and minimize toxins. I […]

5 Tips for Choosing a Hardwood Floor Color

Figuring our how to choose a hardwood floor color is no joke! Whether you're DIY staining real hardwood floors or choosing a wood look vinyl floor, knowing how to choose flooring colors to fit your design style and unique home is key! Hard wood floor colors for farmhouse style can be much different than modern or timeless wood floor colors. #homedesign #woodflooring #renovation

Well, after living in this house for nearly three years, we finally are ready to go forward with installing hardwood floors. But first came choosing a hardwood floor color. When I first started looking into wood flooring over a year ago, I had NO IDEA how many colors were out there. Talk about complete overwhelm! […]

How To Grow Zinnias | An Easy Guide

growing zinnias in containers

Is there anything more beautiful than flowers fully in bloom? I’d venture to say that one of the most gratifying things to grow (apart from growing your own food) are flowers in fact! Some things are easier to grow than others and I find that it’s important to me that I find varieties of flowers […]

Backyard Garden Update – Early September (tons of pics!)

backyard kitchen garden update

    Well, this gardening year hasn’t exactly gone the way I planned (hello unplanned house purchase and move), buuuutt nevertheless we’ve had some pretty good harvests in our backyard garden – Which is super important when you’re trying to grow your own food. Ahem.   We’re maybe 4-5 weeks away from our first freeze […]

Easy Basil Pesto – 5 Farm-Fresh Ingredients

basil pesto recipe for garden excess

Here we are – knee-deep in loads of one of my favorite summer herbs, basil. I think one of my favorite things to do with the kiddos is to introduce them to delicious food made with simple ingredients, straight from the garden! The basil plant was starting to get  a bit unruly and rather than […]