When my husband and I first got our puppy, Hattie, almost 8 years ago, we purchased an inexpensive baby gate/pet gate from a local hardware store. It was a tension fit gate that was a pain to install and remove on an…
Something that I hear more often from my readers than you'd realize is that my DIY posts look super do-able, but they just don't have the tools. And if you aren't a frequent DIYer like I am, it's hard to justify spending…
I know I've shared a few blog posts on the renovation of my pantry, mud room and laundry spaces, but I figured one more can't hurt! The real reason I'm including this final post is because I wanted to show you how…
When we set out to remodel our pantry, that renovation spilled into the adjoining laundry room and eventually the mud room walk-in-closet, too. These three spaces are really part of one big room, so we wanted to make sure we did it…
Our laundry room is located next to the garage entrance of our home, in our walk-through mud room space that also connects to our walk-through pantry (confused? see the graphic below!). Because of this configuration, when we set out to renovate our…
When designing our pantry renovation project, I knew I needed somewhere to store/display cookbooks, a cake stand and some of my colourful cookware. I know that I've shared my love of "closed storage" a number of times when sharing the results of this…
Some projects take a lot of planning. If I'm going to be straight with you, this project has been in the works for a couple of years. We knew we wanted to make some changes to our pantry area to make it…
The layout of our house uses space very effectively with the exception of the pantry-laundry-mud-room area. With a baby on the way, we knew we needed to make some changes to this room to make it function for our (growing) family long…
I'm a huge fan of IKEA Cabinetry - so much so that I wrote an entire blog post about it! Their cabinetry products are high quality at a really affordable price point. I've used their cabinetry products in so many different areas in…
IKEA cabinetry is more common than you think. Every time you hear a designer on a HGTV or DIY Network show say something about big box store or prefabricated cabinets, they almost always use the ones from IKEA. Don't believe me? The…