Today I played with a few stains for this massive farmhouse by Paramount Realty Group . The first blog I did on Minwax stain on red oak floors helped so many of you guys that I wanted to show you more examples including application on other types of wood. The client’s style is very similar to what you would see… Read More
This year has flown by, and we have had a big year at the Bixler household. We had a beautiful baby girl named Harper whose nursery is here , and we have tried to figure out how our schedules were going to work with this new addition. Let me be clear in my naivety of raising a child that I… Read More
Christmas is just around the corner, but we have not had much time to think about that! Our new home is closing on December 30th. Everyone has been frantically finishing up last-minute details, and our punch list is a mile long still. In total, we love our house and have a new home update! We love the grey and knowing… Read More
This week we had to choose the floor stain which I thought would be my favorite since I already had an idea of what I liked. I wanted to match the porch ceiling wood and the exterior corbels with the wood on our floors. Little did I know pine (the ceiling) stains differently than red oak (floors) and differently than… Read More
The Sherwin Williams Color Visualizer saved me so much time on our new home. Picking the right home color is exhausting if you are as indecisive as us. We chose a few gray paint colors in the beginning , but after seeing our brick, we decided the colors did not contrast enough. Our home feels very English Tudor so I wanted… Read More
If you have not noticed, I LOVE grey! I remember being 14 years old, and my friends thinking my room looked like a jail cell because it was grey. I love the neutrality of grey and how it can go with almost anything. As a decorator, I have noticed there are certain shades of grey that don’t feel “homey” to… Read More