Tag: Making Your House Work

Making Your House Work For You: $100 Rainbow Redo

My girl is turning five in a few weeks. Five! sigh. She's our second and last so I've been perfectly content on holding on to...

Making Your House Work: How to Pick the Right Paint

Last time, I shared creative ways to add color to your house. Now that you have inspiration, you need some paint. But all paints...

Making Your House Work: Adding Color

I want my house to reflect who I am. And I am, well, colorful. I love bright happy colors and splashing them around where I...

Making Your House Work: Design Compromise with a 6-Year-Old

When I was pregnant with each of my children, I meticulously designed their nurseries, carefully curating and handmaking everything. I dreamed of who they...

Making Your House Work for You: Siblings Sharing a Room

When I imagined having kids, I always wanted them to share a room. To be together for as long as they could. Sure, I...

5 Easy Ways To Add Joy Around Your House

Quick, Momma, what things bring you joy? Maybe your kids, maybe a spouse or significant other, maybe a job or chocolate or flowers or yoga....

Making Your House Work: 3 Ways to Help Your Kids Get...

I think most parents can admit that there are particular phases of childhood that we either enjoy more or that we are just plain...

Making Your House Work: The Room to Somewhere

I’m your basic suburban mom. When my husband and I got married right out of graduate school, we dreamed of a house in the suburbs...

Making Your House Work: Out with the Living Room, In with...

A big part of Making Your House Work for You is thinking outside the box to redefine spaces. This week, Marcie shares how her family...

Making Your House Work: Quick Nightstand Fix

When we talk about adding functionality to our homes, it's easy to get wrapped up in the big things we want to accomplish. If it's...