• Fall Home Tour: The Porch & Kitchen

    Welcome to the first installment of my fall home tour for 2015! If you came by way of Cozy Little House, I am thrilled you popped in for a visit. Be sure to head back over if you missed Brenda’s tour. Today, I will be giving you a tour of our front porch and a rarely seen room on my blog…the kitchen! I hope you enjoy your visit here today and do come back on Thursday, when I will share my second installment with the living room and dining room tours. Let’s get started…my husband and our two small children live in a tiny town just outside of Rochester, NY.…

  • Log Cabin Home Tour: Kitchen & Dining Room

    As I mentioned last week, I have been preparing a full log cabin home tour from our recent stay in the Adirondacks. Today, I am so excited to get it started with the kitchen and dining room! If you missed the personal side of the trip, you can check that out here. I will have follow up posts with tours of the living room, master bedroom and more, in the coming weeks so stay tuned. For now, come on in and enjoy a virtual tour of this dreamy log home’s kitchen and dining room… My mom was actually the one who found this rental cabin listed on vacationrentals.com. I have…

  • Vintage Inspired Hot Chocolate Station

    If you recently came to take my holiday home tour, you would have seen the hot chocolate station I set up in the kitchen. If not, I am sharing the full details of it here today! I went with a vintage inspired theme and my whole family loves it. Although, I keep catching my kids stealing the marshmallows 🙂 This was the first year I set up a hot chocolate bar, but I think it will become a holiday tradition now. We have an old desk in our kitchen that serves as an island. I knew that would be the perfect spot for it. The first thing that I did…

  • Holiday Home Tour 2014

    I am so excited for this day! This is literally a “blog dream” come true for me! I am revealing my holiday home tour for you as part of Jennifer Rizzo’s Holiday Housewalk. If this is your first visit to my blog, I am beyond thrilled that you are here today! Please make yourself right at home 🙂 If you are a regular…I treasure your visits to this little blog of mine. I am stop six on the tour…and there are a ton more so you are in for some real holiday eye candy! The stop right before me is French Country Cottage so head her way if you haven’t yet. If you…

  • The Collector | DIY Feather and Plate Wall Art

    I’m a hoarder a collector. I love things. I love certain kinds of things. And then when I love certain kinds of things, I love having lots of those kinds of things. I am a collector. What makes me drawn to certain things? Things that have character. a story. a history. These things speak to me silently. Calling out to give them a new home where they will be cherished. treasured. adored. I oblige. Being a collector does have its downsides (depending on how you look at it). You can end up with a bunch of useless stuff that you just like to look at. clutter up your home, and…

  • Kitchen Progress {Thus Far}

    My husband has been hard at work transforming our kitchen. If you missed my first Before Post, go check that out to see what we started with. Here is the progress so far… My husband lowered most of the cabinets (they were way too high and hard to reach). He left the ones above the microwave as is, and added trim underneath to frame it and have it line up with the lowered cupboards on either side. We decided to leave the corner one raised up and are going to come up with something creative to do underneath to make it work with the rest. Josh has been deglossing, painting…