• Decorating

    Can You Use Indoor Pillows Outdoors?

    We talk often about bringing the outdoors in when referring to plants and greenery, so here is a question. Can we bring the indoors out and use indoor pillows outdoors? I’m sure you have often wondered this and maybe even hesitated to use the same indoor pillows on your porch swing or sectional, but really, can you do this?

  • Plants

    How to Care for a Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree

    When it comes to indoor plants, I have to admit, my thumbs aren’t the greenest. So a few months back when I ordered two Fiddle Leaf Fig Trees, I didn’t have very high hopes for them staying alive very long.

  • DIY

    How to Mount a TV on a Brick Wall

    If you have ever mounted a TV on a typical wall (drywall on wood studs), you know it’s not that difficult. The most important things are making sure the screws are going into the studs, and that the mounting bracket is level.

  • DIY

    How to Build a DIY Bed

    Brooke has been wanting a new bed for our master bedroom for a while, and she found one from Restoration Hardware that we both really liked. However, there was only one problem. It costs over $4,000! We both agreed that was way more than what we wanted to spend on a bed.

  • DIY

    How to Take the Red Out of Red Oak

    When we were building our house, we ran into a small issue. Our hardwood flooring was white oak, but we had a lot of other wood elements like beams and built-ins that would have to be built using red oak boards. We had to use red oak due to the limited availability of white oak.