our beautiful life: House

Here is a little video of how our day normally runs, start to finish. I try to do one of these once or twice a year, but haven't done one in 2 years! Which makes me so sad, because watching the last one I did, they girls have grown SO MUCH since then! So I definitely need to try to carve time out to make this happen ever 6 months to a year. It is so much fun to watch back as a family.

Kids grow up way to fast, and before you know it they are almost as tall as you.

I will always cherish and love watching these.

Enjoy.

Summer is 8 and London is 4.5 years old.

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BEFORE:

The kids have basically taken over the whole house. But, here is our actual "Playroom".

Adam & I recently tackled the huge entertainment center & painted it a fresh clean white.

We put this off for years, cause it was so daunting.

But, we did it and I am so happy we did.

Fresh paint.

New glass in the cupboards.

Hardware put on.

Labels on all of the different baskets.

So much better looking.

To top it all off, a pink couch for their playroom.

I officially love it, although, I do need to finish the empty space above their princess dresses.

But thats a little task.

Summer & Londons Playroom!

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I wish I would have taken a "Before & After" of my cupboards. Unfortunately I didn't, again.

We had just the basic one board cupboards. Stuff would get buried behind each other, It was messy, hard to find things, & half the time I forgot about half the food that was "buried" behind a bunch of other food. On top of that, who wants to take everything out to find more stuff in the back?

Not me.

Finally I had a plan & made it a priority to make good use of our cupboards. Not just make more useable space in general, but I really wanted them to look put together & have a nice, organized & polished look.

Now I have beautiful pull-out drawers. No more wondering "whats back there?".

My ideas never come cheap, haha! My husband would be fine using just the food boxes from the store & or just cheap containers (no offense babe xo). But, of course the vision I usually have is not cheap & is normally more expensive than it would "need" to be.

To me it's worth it. Because in the end I have a beautiful kitchen, even inside the cupboards & I am so happy with it. I don't ever have that feeling of

"ugh, I wish I would have just paid a little more money for the containers" & or this or that.

I am so happy with how it all turned out. Its perfect.

Plus- being a stay at home mom I am basically here 24/7. So yes, I want the best I can have.

It is where I spend 90% of my time, besides Nordstrom 😜.

I want the feeling of "I love being home. I love my house. This is my place & its beautiful."

aaaanyways.

I bought everything at the Container Store in Edina.

I used the the brand oxo for al my food containers.

These

In all sizes.

Here is a set If you wanted to go that route. I just had to many things to fill & needed multiple of the same sizes, etc. But this is an option as well.

I used these for the cereal. Great price point.

I used these for the food scoops.

snacks are in this & this.

I used these for bread

And these & these for chips.

Pull out drawers

This is not pictured. But I used these for inside my refrigerator. It helps keep produce fresh for longer & gives your fringe a cleaner look.

Here is the "snack side" if you will.

This is where the kids can grab snacks, any container that has popcorn, pretzels, chips, etc has a cute shovel in it for them to use so no hands ever need to be digging inside.

Of course I also needed to add that extra touch and label the containers.

I took it a step further & labeled the pull out drawers, to say what this pull out drawer contains.

Next side is my "Baking" side.

Sugars, noodles, soups, etc.

Also this is where I store the kids lunch boxes.

Hope you enjoyed this post, maybe it will give you some inspiration!

Organizing my house 1 room at a time.

Let me know if you want to see more posts like this.

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I was wanting to do this for about 2 years now.. But we used to have carpet in this room, so I needed to wait until it was hardwood.

We love how it turned out. I still need to find the perfect baskets for the top 3 empty spaces.

But besides that minor detail it's perfect. I feel like this space was made for an entryway just like this.

I am so thankful for my hubby who is able to make my "DIY dreams" become a reality. Total props to him.

Here are some photos, start to finish. At the end of this post I'll tell you how you too can make one of these!

The base is the Hemnes TV Unit, and the top is the Hemnes Wall/bridging Shelf. We also added some crown molding on the top to match our kitchen cabinets.

In between those 2 main pieces we just got some select pine from the Home Depot. We got 1x4 & 1x3. You frame it with 1x4 and then fill that spot in with 1x3, separating columns.

Paint it all white, & add hooks.

We added corbels from the Home Depot to give it more of a polished look, they just need 2 coats of paint. The hooks are also from home depot.

Little things we did once it was finished. We had someone come and do crown molding
(who already needed to finish a couple other pieces at the house from our house project. so we just added this) It made it look so polished & more custom, which I love!

Also I always wanted a "charging station" to plug in ipads, Summers GIZMO, fitbit, leap pad, etc.. So I had Adam drill a hole in the middle drawer with these and then we got a power strip to secure to the drawer. voilia, PERFECT!

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In December we started our home remodel. We were living with my parents for the 3 weeks while this was getting done. It got finished the weekend of Christmas, talk about good timing. Cutting it a little close, but we were home for Christmas, & that was the important part.

Adam and I created every detail and put together how we wanted everything done. We did the whole layout ourselves and how we wanted the end floor plan to be. It was stressful but so much fun and rewarding at the same time. We knew where the island would go, how big it would be, all the lighting, even to the last detail of picking where to cut the holes for the flush-mount ceiling lights, we did every last detail and I think we did a pretty good job. We love how it turned out!

Here are some before and after pictures.

DURING PROJECT: