November 15th, 2012
before leaving edgewater (and taking a big break on the house stuff) we pulled together one last diy for our master bathroom. (we shared with tinkernation first.. we guest blog every now & then, here’s our previous post if you missed it. and if you haven’t checked out their site poke around a little, tons of great posts for all kinds of diy’ers)
we wanted to have a one-of-a-kind bathroom sink cabinet and decided early on to go vintage; we found this restored beauty in boulder, colorado and splurged a teensy bit. the sink and faucet were a steal online which helped even out the cost of the dresser and the mister could do all of the customization so overall it was a good deal. to see the full step-by-step go here. if you’d love a really original piece we definitely recommend this project, it’s a very doable d-i-y!
Filed Under: D-I-Y
Tagged: diy blog, small home renovation, small homes, tinkernation, turning a dresser into a sink
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September 10th, 2012
we did it! we got away on the best road trip last week, it was just for the day but we saw a ton. we went from denver to leadville, through twin lakes, and ended in aspen. and then turned around and did the same route home because it was the prettiest drive we’ve driven in all of colorado so far. i’ll be sharing aspen later and showing off the unbelievable landscape. but…. these two towns, that we knew nothing about, we instantly fell in love with. leadville is an old mining town that is so quaint and historic, but up to date all at the same time. we just missed boom days, the town’s big annual festival with a parade, motorcycle rodeo, and mining skill competitions (of course!), we’re putting it on the calendar for next year. (more info if you want to go)
and just a little further down the road is the teensy town of twin lakes, if you look left for 30 seconds you’ll miss the whole town. even though there was hardly a town it was packed with cabins for rent, even a teepee, and chairs were rounded up in a huge circle in front of the general store (2ft from the main road). there was no one around, even the general store was empty when we went in. sooo quiet..and was the absolute perfect spot for our picnic. this is definitely a trip we’ll take each year, it’s the perfect mix of beautiful scenery, quiet backroads and mountain towns.
and in other news.. we finished a big project for tinkernation, started another diy project that i’ll be able to show you later this week, watched some football (some of which was very disappointing), enjoyed lots of early fall weather, had a great night hanging out with fellow travel lovers laura & kevin of riveted (big thank you to laura for homemade gazpacho & smoked tofu salad.. wonderful!) and met new (and local) friends lisa & mat of shiny camper. it was a perfect, full weekend with a little bit of downtime too.. what did you do?
Filed Under: life in the fast lane,travel
Tagged: aspen co, boom days, camp1899, denver co, denver co blog, leadville co, life in the fast lane, riveted blog, shiny camper blog, tinkernation, twin lakes co
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August 29th, 2012
→ look what we’ve been up to! while it’s true progress has slooowwwed down a bit around here (the husband has been doing awesome projects for others so we’re a little behind on our to-do list), we did sneak in this big diy for tinkernation!! have you been following all of the diy’s over there? if not they have some great contributors, contests, tips, and tons more so make sure to say hello and pop over to see all of the details of this project, we tell all about it!!
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Tagged: concrete counter diy, concrete counters, diy, home diy, small house blog, tinkernation
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July 18th, 2012
have you been wondering what we’ve been up to for diy around here? well…. we’ve actually have working on a really good project, but, it’s a secret. remember we’re collaborating with tinkernation? if you haven’t checked out the website yet, pop over to see, and they have a few big sweepstakes coming up soooooon, so keep checking back for your chance to win. anyhoo, we’ve been busier than we’ve looked, we’ll be sharing our project in the next few weeks or so on tinkernation first and we can’t wait for you to see!
over the weekend he finished off our trim around the living room windows, most had been finished earlier, see here if you missed it, but this big picture window needed more time and got waylaid. and we now have real curtains hanging, instead of dropcloths over expandable rods.. fancy. we’ve got all of our trim up now but none of it is finished, lots of screw holes to putty and sand, priming and painting, all on our still quite long to-do list… we’ll be diy’ing for a long time around here.
on a little side note.. our curtains are lined silk dupioni and dry clean only. oye. i called around to several dry cleaners to get pricing and oh my, it was going to be pricey. to the tune of around $150. now if you’ve got thousand dollar curtains it would be the only way to go. ours aren’t super cheap but they aren’t worth a $150 dry cleaning bill either. i was daring and threw them (one at a time) in the washer. i used the wool setting, cold water, a short cycle, and they came out just fine. wrinkled as all get out but fine. i ironed them, with my ultra deluxe travel iron, haha, i don’t think i’ve ironed in about a decade and neither has he so full size iron and ironing board are not things we own. anyway, they ironed just fine, the silk looks just as it did prior to washing. i used a high heat steam setting and ironed directly on the silk. if you’re washing machine doesn’t have good settings like wool, silk, etc. then you might not want to try it but if it does, it worked great for us!
June 25th, 2012
→ we are so excited to share a website with all of you today called tinkernation. it’s a site for all types of diy enthusiasts…homes, bikes, cars, and everything in between that fuels your do-it-yourself spirit. i was so flattered they asked me to be a featured author on their site so i could show off some of the hard work my husband does for us day in and day out! it’s a fantastic forum full of inspiration and we’re so happy to be a part of it. a big southern thank you to the entire team at tinkernation for including and working with us! be sure to pop over and see what all the fuss is about, today is our first featured article, with some special surprises to be shown throughout the year of secret behind the scenes projects at camp1899!!
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Tagged: camp1899, diy blog, home renovation blog, tinkernation
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