Oh happy day!! I’ve been waiting for our latest delivery for nearly five months! When we moved into this house, I knew I wanted to do matching sofas set up across from each other in our family room. I LOVE symmetry. 

I wanted them to be plain, regular sofas with no chaise or sectional set up, and we already had this sofa from our living room at the old house: 

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We hid the kitty litter underneath and the top was supposed to be a folding table. Haha! There was rarely room to fold anything. As much as I have decluttered and organized in our home, we still needed a spot for many items around the house. A lot of them ended up on this counter! 

Then we had some upper cabinets moved from over the washer and dryer to this spot, and I installed four inexpensive drawer units on the bottom: 

They are the basic unfinished cabinets you can

Well hello! The mud/laundry room changes continue, and this project is an oldie but goodie. This is the second time I’ve added a DIY shelf unit behind our top loader washer and dryer — I love them! 

This room is turning out so beautifully, but it has tested me! I’ve had problems with almost every DIY project I’ve worked on in here — I had to tear half of this one out and do it again. So many of the items I’ve ordered for the room have been delayed, and items that did arrive on time were wrong or not enough for what I needed. 

It’s been SO much fun. 😜 I don’t think I’ve ever had this many problems on a space before. And that’s saying a lot considering I’ve been at this for nearly 20 years!

Thankfully all of them have been worth it in the end! This

If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you know I’m a HUGE fan of wood counters, or butcher block as it’s often called. I’ve used them in both of our houses in a number of rooms over the years. One of the most common questions I get is where I’ve purchased the wood counters I’ve used around our home. I’m sharing all of the places you can find them in stock (today!) at the end of this post.

I may be wrong, but I feel like it used to be much harder to find wood counters readily available for purchase. Maybe the farmhouse design trend increased the availability? Could be. Could be I was living under a rock all those years. 

I know some shy away from using wood counters, especially in a kitchen, but they can absolutely hold up to just about anything (heat is the

I’m back with more progress on Project Add More Storage in our mud/laundry space! It’s coming together so beautifully! I’ve been adding storage, changing up storage and moving things around to make this room function so much better for us. 

Last I left you, I finished up the simple shelves at the end of the closet in that room: 

I love this little trick for using that dead space in a closet! 

Next up, I needed to add a little something to one of the closet doors. MANY of you have been wondering where we were going to put our litter boxes. Shortly after we moved in I added a DIY “curtain” and hid the kitty litter under the folding table: 

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Since then we’ve installed drawer base cabinets here instead (you can

Hey there! Now that the garage is all decluttered and organized, I’ve been focusing more on the changes in our mud/laundry room again. 

I shared my plan for adding a ton more storage and other changes to make this room work even better for us a couple weeks ago. I’m so excited about these changes! They’ve already made a BIG difference in here. 

I’ve moved things around a bunch — including moving some things from the garage that just work better inside. I’ll show you all of that soon! This week I’ve been focusing on the closet we have in here: 

My dream was always to have a big closet in our mud room! When I saw how big this laundry/mud combo was going to be, I knew we’d have plenty of room for a closet. My favorite part is the OUTLET I had put inside. Game changer. 

Anyway,