Painting the Mountain House It’s time to start painting the mountain house. I’m going over our painting plans today. If you keep up with the news, then you know that we have a Cat 3 hurricane headed our way to Houston today. It’s probably not going to be a direct hit like Ike and Alicia, […]
Updates to Mountain Bedroom
UPDATES TO MOUNTAIN BEDROOM We just added some updates to our mountain bedroom. See the process I go through and how it’s okay if you need to try different arrangements until you find the sweet spot. Before I get to the post, I wanted to remind you the house is available to rent for vacations. […]
Updates to Mountain Living Room
UPDATES TO MOUNTAIN LIVING ROOM Today I’ve revealing before and after photos of our mountain house living room as we improve it slowly but surely. As you probably know we went to our mountain house a few weeks ago. It was so nice to get out of the heat in Houston and escape to the […]
Mountain House Updates
Spring Break 2017, and instead of going to the beach we went to the mountains. The first morning, we woke up to this. It was 80 degrees when we left Texas. Well, the reality was I had been working too hard, so I just wanted to get back in bed and pull the covers over […]
Our Mountain Deck Redo
Today I am back on our mountain deck. Well not literally. I’m showing photos of it so I can show you another transformation. Of course I always need a before photo, and this one works perfectly. Our deck did not have any stain or protective coating on it, so we needed to take care of […]
Painting the Mountain Bedroom
Well as you may know we bought a mountain house in Black Mountain, NC this year. We hope to retire here, but for now it’s a vacation rental, and we go as often as we can. This post was sponsored by the folks at BEHR PAINT but all opinions are my own. The house has amazing […]
Thanksgiving in the Mountains
I know I’ve shared several Fall and Thanksgiving posts this year, but this one is different. This is about our recent trip to the mountains. This is where I would have Thanksgiving if I could, and maybe next year we will. This is about relaxing and taking time off to be with your friends and family. […]
How to Deliver Comfort and Style for Seating
I’ve been wanting to show you some of the updates to our mountain house. First we got a ping pong table. It’s not pretty from a design standpoint, but my family is so happy about it, so… well I’m happy we got it. The room seems really big, but once you put a full size […]
