We toured the house for the first time with our realtor, and for the second time during our home inspection in mid-April. The property was a lot different then than it is now, thanks to the dense...
Squeal! Today’s post is super photo-heavy, so to make the whole project more digestible, I’ve broken it into a few scrollable sections. Even I have a short attention span when it comes to DI...
https://merrypad.com/2012/06/20/anthropologie-inspired-folding-chair-cushions/
Another Monday, another new hanging planter for the sunroom. Who’d have thunk that I’d find the twinsie to my mini-hexagon planter at a rummage sale right around the corner from our little ho...
File this under “things that are broken but I manage to ignore until someone smart points out a fix to me”… because if I admitted to it more often, there would be a category. Also, the titl...
https://merrypad.com/2012/06/15/how-to-repair-or-replace-a-mortise-doorknob-spindle/
It’s not often that I can bear to let my DIY-efforts go to waste, so this is just another one of those instances where other project leftovers morph into something else purposeful around the ho...
https://merrypad.com/2012/06/11/build-a-diy-hanging-planter/
Refinishing the buffet infused a nice energy into the previously empty sunroom, and pushed me to complete another jobber while I was on a roll. The project? Oversized art to occupy the wall above...
This $15 mid-century modern sideboard by Bassett Furniture was a great yard sale find, but it needed a lot of restoration work. I wouldn’t consider myself a professional furniture rehabber, but...
https://merrypad.com/2012/06/04/how-to-refinish-mid-century-modern-buffet/
I’ve been mustering up the courage to begin disassembling the cabinets in the kitchen after Friday’s announcement, but I’m not quite there yet. Soon. In the meantime, my mom surprised me by...
From time to time, I do little DIYs that make me happy. Or ask for advice on completely miscellaneous projects. Or get compelled to remind you that I’m human by admitting that I’ve never once...
Nothing spells springtime health like the opportunity to soak up sunny vitamin D while simultaneously getting serious amounts of work done, so I’m transforming the previously empty the 3-season...
https://merrypad.com/2012/04/23/painting-a-laminate-tabletop/
This little unfinished bamboo friend has been hanging out in the house for the last 2 years. Rarely seen, it flows through the house like a ghost, rarely captured in photos mostly because it find...
I finished up a short list of small projects this month – ones that wouldn’t actually prompt an independent post, but definitely make me want to pat myself on the back. After all, when you�...
https://merrypad.com/2011/10/20/small-victories-in-home-maintenance/
Not terribly long after I launched Merrypad, I posted about my then-current paint palette. That graphic looked something like this: But in the last year, likely because I was challenging myself w...
Officially 10 months behind schedule with the sunroom curtains. Shucks. It would have really been nice to have them all summer long to improve the curb appeal when there was more foot traffic in ...
It’s not everyday that the man calls while traveling for work and says “My hotel is near IKEA. Email me your wish list.” That proximity, it never happens. The Land of Neverdom. Bordering th...
https://merrypad.com/2011/09/23/sunroom-lighting-ikea-loving/
Here’s something I bet you didn’t see coming. Buh-bye, DIY-stenciled sunroom dots. You were fun while you lasted. The backstory on this second-time-around-sunroom-floor-painting-balooza has t...
Not emotionally, just in a painty way. A case of blue paint happies, if you want to classify the feelin’ I’m oozing after finishing my latest fixer-upper project. We spent a lot of time worki...
The dots! They’re done! Maybe. Things like this are sometimes an eternal work in progress. But the originally-envisioned scalloped dots have made their way around the perimeter of the sunroom (...
I approached this whole paint-a-border-on-the-sunroom-floor thing with patience. This is not common of me. It took a while to select a floor stencil design to apply (unusually indecisive), and th...