Hello, I suck at selfies, thus my weird pissed off looking floating head. Just wanted to drop in and say "hey". Life has been crazy lately, as it is this time of year. Last week was my 34th birthday and I spent all weekend celebrating, because I like birthdays. My brother and I have birthdays that are three days apart, so when our birthdays fall on a weekend there is lots of very important READ MORE

Budz, although I try, my house isn't 100% pretty. It's easy to lie to the world and make it seem that way on the internet though. A few of you have noticed that I never post photos of my bathroom, and that's for good reason - there's only shame to share. We have two bathrooms in our house, one in the basement, that for the time being consists of a toilet and a roll of toilet paper. The other READ MORE

Budz! Have you noticed I've only been posting once a week, maybe twice at best. Sorry if I've been slow to respond to e-mails and comments, I'll get to 'em. I've been so busy with all of this basement stuff, it's consuming my life and I can't wait for it to be done. Remember, we started planning this basement around this time last year, so it's seriously time to wrap this baby up and be done. READ MORE

Hey Guys! I've been drooling over the lamps at One Forty Three for what seems like years now, and every pic I see come through my pinterest feed featuring a swing arm lamp I automatically pin. I've just been waiting one to add one to the almost-finished-basement, and then I saw a recent ASK This Old House episode where they walk you through re-wiring an old lantern into a electrified lamp. Obviously, READ MORE