At Charlotte's House

Using a Paint Sprayer to Transform a Thrifted Dresser

A few weeks ago, a friend asked for some help redecorating her daughter’s room. The full reveal is coming up in a few weeks, but today I wanted to share a furniture makeover I tackled for the space. Storage was a big priority for the small room and the little girl didn’t have a good dresser, so I thrifted one at the Restore for $50. But it needed some TLC…

How to Make a Modern Backyard Bench

My shed is just about my most favorite place ever. It was falling apart when we bought the house so our contractor reinforced the structure, and altered the front slightly to give us a central door and two symmetrical windows. I built window boxes to add a little warmth, but I wanted to build some benches to flank the doors.

Tips For Taking a Family Road Trip

Road trips were part of my childhood and I remember loading up on penny candy, books-on-tape, and pencil and paper to keep track of all the license plates I saw… my kids aren’t quite there yet, so it takes a bit of planning to get them all organized and out the door for a 5-hour car ride! I follow the same steps every time we travel, and it makes our life SO much easier.

Welcome to Mom Camp

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June 20, 2018

Thursday was my kids’ last day of school so I officially have a very full house for the next eight weeks. Not that I don’t love having my kids home (I mostly kinda sorta do…), but I started day dreaming about what a week of Mom Camp would look like.

How to Sew a Letter Pillow

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June 20, 2018

Years ago, I made a fun alphabet pillow, so when I was invited to participate in my friend Bari’s Indigo & Aster Blog Tour, I was thrilled to join the fun to make another one of these pillows and share the tutorial with you! Yay for sewing! (More specifically… yay for kinda sorta sewing… the rest of the ladies on this blog tour are SEWers. Ha!)

How to Have the Best Lemonade Sale Ever

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June 19, 2018

Over the weekend, Eleanor innocently asked whether she could have a lemonade sale. She reminded me that she asked before and I said we could. And… of course, she was right. So we set out to have the most epic of lemonade sales ever. Or at least, the most epic my kids had ever had.

How to Keep Your House Tidy When It’s On the Market

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June 13, 2018

Keeping Your House Clean for Real Estate Showings When your house is for sale, it’s essential that it remains tidy and non-pig-stylish. ALL THE TIME. At 8:00 in the morning, that’s not to hard to accomplish. Check in with us at 4:00 and the landscape is a little bleaker. But I have some tricks up […]

Outdoor Tablescape For Kids

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June 12, 2018

Last summer we made some improvements to our patio (cleared trees, expanded the flagstones, added a new patio set) and THIS summer, we’re enjoying it! We have a party for adults planned for early July, but… in the mean time, I wanted to share some of the ways we make it fun (and fancy-ish) for the kids!