Remember how I mentioned that our carpenter had installed a few simple shelves in our nook to hold our TV components? I like the easy bracket system he had come up with, so I duplicated it recently when I wanted to fill out both sides of the nook with shelves.

I pulled off the old shelves, but kept the brackets and cut down 1×2″ primed pine boards with a miter saw to fit the back and sides.

Continue reading DIY Nook Book Shelves and Benchtop at Jenny Komenda.

I really wanted to finish up our mudroom space before school started this year, and we made it, just under the wire! I was really excited to get to team up with Amana again on this project. You might remember that one of the first projects we tackled in our house after moving here was paneling in the mudroom. We held off on paneling the closet walls, just because there was a lot of work to do there first.

Continue reading Back-to-School Make Over for the Mudroom! at Jenny Komenda.

We’ve had some big wins in the fireplace department lately. Remember how I wanted something more traditional for the mantel, but with cleaner lines? This image from House and Home was my loose inspiration.

Jason worked on framing out the fireplace surround for me while I went to Home Depot to figure out trim to make the new mantel with.

I want a really rounded out molding – something to mimic the curves of the inspiration image’s mantel.

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We’ve been living here in the middle of renovations for a little over two months now, and I’m starting to notice a pattern where I start a big project and work like crazy on it for a while and then I get a little burnt out on the labor or stuck on a decision or we’ll need to order something to move forward. So rather than pushing forward with the one mess I’m already in the middle of, I’ll do the least helpful thing – I start another major project.

Continue reading Project ADD and Honing Countertops On Site at Jenny Komenda.