Several different ways you can easily update your kitchen cabinets without buying new ones. Take off your kitchen doors and add mirror and glass shelving Now I can take total credit for this one, because it's mine. After we ebony stained our existing kitchen cabinets, I needed a way to add some "brightness" to my kitchen. Using Mirror and Glass Shelving to update Kitchen Cabinets Don't let my DIY fool you, the mirror backing was inexpensive. Each piece from a glass shop was under $40. The glass shelves averaged $30 each. And  it worked, the sunlight bounces around this room now! Paint your Kitchen Cabinets Via BHG | Add Paint & Decorative Moulding Trimming out your cabinets using highly detailed moulding is a beautiful way to add that special touch to the workhorse of the kitchen. Paint & Stain Kitchen Cabinets - add that personal flair Via BHG | Easy Kitchen Cabinet Makeover Mixing of stain and paint, that is genius! How many kitchens can you say you saw that......

We finally seem like we are making progress around here with the Butlers Pantry.  We still have quite a lot of tiny little details to take care of but at least I can start to play with all the custom shelving I have. I also admit that I did (and still might be) taking a small break from blogging. It has been really nice to not feel like it is a responsibility for me to post something every 2 or three days.  Plus with Spring here I am going to be moving outside to clean up and mulch all my flower beds, so I am trying to mentally prepare for that workout! Also I do have some news. Now some of you may know that hubby and I are currently living in sin, we are not married. We have been living together for over 15 years, with everything split as perfect partners, so he has always been a hubby to me. Well I finally decided if a man can love all of my quirks, and live with me for that long, he deserves a prize. So we are going to be making it official and go to the courthouse to get m......

Butlers Pantry DIY Demoing my pantry and the hall closet... Part 2.  I am shocked, I have to tell you. Really really, really shocked. I knew doing this would be filthy. There would be drywall dust everywhere.  I also knew, that more light would hit the hallway by the front door and the entry into the kitchen would be almost twice as wide as the old one. Well guess what I did NOT know: I did not know that I would want to kick myself, for not doing this, the day after we moved in 8 YEARS AGO. Why oh why did I wait to voice my opinion? Well, maybe it has something to do with hubby's response. Its ok, you can laugh...I did. (after I told hubby what I wanted to do) Him: Ok, we can do that. I like this idea. Me: Uhh ex squeeze me, baking powder? What was that? Him: Well this isn't like your other hair brained ideas. Me: uh huh. (deep breath) Ok, I think what you meant to say. Darling. Is that unlike my purely decorative ideas, this is more functional to the male brain. Him: Yeah, th......