Cheap Decorating Information

  Thanks for the guest post by Esteban Vinson Being a stay at home mom meant when it was time for us to move I got stuck planning everything. I think my husband thinks I just sit on my butt all day and don’t have two toddlers to take care of which makes it a [...]

Posted by Arden Wallace I was watching my North Hills direct tv and happened to catch part of an episode of the Dr. Oz show. I don’t normally watch this show, but I was at home getting some things done on a weekday off of work. A guest on the show had lost something like 170 [...]

it is my professional opinion that the absolute fastest way to make over an entire bedroom is by buying one of those bed in a bag kits. The reason is that they come in like ten million different prints and patterns and they usually have a comforter, a dust ruffle, a set of sheets and [...]

Uncle Hooper has a beautiful collection of vintage medical stuff and he wanted to use it as decoration in his new office, so we set up glass shelves and cabinets and made it look like a museum, with the old amber bottles on the shelves and old equipment on display, it’s really impressive. My favorite [...]

In redesigning our bedroom, I was faced with a dilemma. Where should I skimp? My husband has a “thing” about high thread count on the sheets, so he would rather have one or two sets of fancy sheets. I would personally rather have ten sets of sheets in a rainbow of colors because the quality [...]

We were walking through Sears last night and I saw the most adorable pink toolbox, actually it was a canvas tool kit with an aluminum frame, so it was more of a tool kit rather than a tool box, but it looks like it is just the perfect thing for my home improvement and repair [...]

It’s not like I needed ANOTHER reason to want to live in orange County, right?  We just got done visiting out friends in Claremont, California. Their house has three solar panels on the roof and they haven’t paid an electric bill in over 25 years.  Can you imagine? Free electricity, basically. The are plugged into [...]

I was helping my Aunt Ethel get her will updated, can you imagine being 92 years old and not having a will? Well, she had one done when she was in her 60′s and she’s really surprised, I think, that she’s lived a whole ‘nother 30 years since then. She has really done well, too. [...]

So what is it about a home that we love so much? For me, it’s the ability to fully and completely relax and feel the ultimate of physical comforts, a stress-free body. I don’t know about you, but I tend to carry my stress in my body. If I’m upset, my stomach is in knots. [...]

So our entire yard looks like a labyrinth, everything is completely torn up and destroyed, the amount of mud and rocks and everything makes it look more like a construction zone rather than a yard, every time I come home all I can think of is how exciting it all is. Yep, call me crazy [...]