Level: Beginner Time: 30 minutes, plus drying time Materials: Wood, Drill, Natural Wood Stain, Oil Paint I loved the idea of having a little balance beam in our backyard for Leo to practice her balancing on! She always loves to walk on curbs or logs or anything other than the ground, so it seemed like a backyard toy she might enjoy. And with the weather starting to get so nice, I want to encourage as much outside time as possible! I figured a balance beam would be pretty easy

Level: Beginner Time: 2 hours (+ time for paint/stain to dry) Materials: Wood, paint or stain, saw, drill We've been updating our basement lately and one thing we really wanted were some shelves for our DVDs. Ben and I have a ridiculous amount of movies considering we never actually watch any of them. We thought maybe if they were visible we'd be more inclined to watch them (spoiler alert: we still haven't haha but maybe soon!). Right at the bottom of the stairs we had this w

Level: Intermediate Time: 2 hours-ish Materials: Wood, paint or stain, jigsaw, kreg jig, drill, pocket screws, wood glue Leo has been climbing on EVERYTHING lately. I've seen these floating around the internet and thought Leo would love it, but they're so expensive! So I thought I'd give it a try on my own. Normally when I start a project I find some plans online to help, but in this case there just weren't any! I found a couple but they wanted me to pay $10 for them and let'

Level: Easy Time: 6-8 hours (more or less depending on drying time of paint/stain) Materials: Sandpaper, stain, polyurethane/polyacrylic, fabric, staple gun, drill For the last few years we've only had 3 dining room chairs. It normally isn't a huge deal, but we'd like to be able to have more than 1 person over at a time so we thought we should get some more. Turns out, chairs are crazy expensive! Even cheap or used ones are way more than I'm willing to pay. I spent months loo

This is a follow up to a previous post, DIY Wood Farmhouse Baby Gates. This is just another version of the Wood Farmhouse Baby Gate! Level: Easy to make the gate, Intermediate to install Time: 60 minutes (longer with paint drying and installation time!) Materials: Wood, paint or stain, Liquid Nails or a nail gun, wheels/casters, door stoppers, locking mechanism, stud finder When I originally made my gates I knew I needed one for the bottom and top of our stairs. When I made

Level: Easy to make the gate, Intermediate to hang it Time: 60 minutes (longer with paint drying and installation time!) Materials: Wood, paint or stain, Liquid Nails or a nail gun, hinges, locking mechanism, stud finder When Leo first started to crawl I knew we had to do something to gate off the stairs. We had just moved into our new house a few months before and I'd spent months making it look the way I wanted, so I didn't want to ruin the entire aesthetic with hideous pla

A quick step by step on adding new legs to an old chair!

Taking an old, ugly set of drawers and upcycling them into an Ikea-inspired storage unit with padded top. Easy DIY Project!