I haven’t had a solo picture up since I was preg I haven’t had a solo picture up since I was pregnant with Nyah. Its so unnatural for me to show my face without a baby in my hands or a project next to me but making an effort to be more comfortable just showing up all by myself. Also I loved this wall it’s making me wanna tile something! Also swipe to see the last picture I posted along 8 months pregnant with Nyah! Isn’t time & the way our bodies change jusy blow yours mind?! It it’s so wild! 🤰🏽🙌🏽 also low key miss being pregnant🤣 #motherhoodjourney #hiitsme #coolwalls #stpetersburgflorida
That’s motherhood I guess… it’ll never stay That’s motherhood I guess… it’ll never stay cleaned. #momhumor #motherhoodhumor #funnymom
Photo drop! I have so many in my favorites that I Photo drop! I have so many in my favorites that I forget about after I take them. My favorite people
The best days of my life #motherhood #photographer The best days of my life #motherhood #photographerlife #summervibes
4 months with our sweet miss Nyah girl & 4 months 4 months with our sweet miss Nyah girl & 4 months with our new couch #sponsored and let me just say you can keep our ex (couch) we love our @thefutonshop organic Modular sofa! Everyone always says the kitchen is the heart of the home but I’m starting to think it’s the couch💁🏽‍♀️. Newborn life has made me realize how much life happens on the couch- the breastfeeding, contact naps, movies, play time, fort building, mom+dad date nights in, working from home…so many hours on this couch snuggling these babies and doing life. 

We got the sofa within days of bringing Nyah home and it was perfect timing because we have been consciously making sustainable swaps to make our home safer for these babes! The Futon Shop is a small family owned business that uses environmentally friendly organic fibers to alleviate any negative health effects! Each piece of furniture is handmade in San Francisco since 1976 with no toxic chemicals or hazardous substances. 

So aside from being non-toxic, locally made, & family owned it is perfect for families!! Each cushion is removable so the kids use then to build forts and all sorts of creative play, each cushion cover is removable so I can wash everything EASILY🙌🏽🙌🏽, and it is modular so you can arrange it easily to fit any activity (or if your just like me and you need to rearrange your house every week). Save to say we love our new couch! Check out this amazing small business if you’re in the market for a new couch, mattress, bedding or so much more!  @the_futon_shop 🙌🏽💕
#naturalliving #organic #locallymade #smallliving #interiordesign #theeverygirlathome #thefutonshop #naturalhome #farmtofurniture #healthyhome #diycreator #smallfamilybusiness
They make my life… not even better they just mak They make my life… not even better they just make it💕 so excited it’s summer✨☀️🌊 they could live in the water!!
A day in the life The most tedious motherhood tas A day in the life 
The most tedious motherhood task for me was meal clean up-but then I got a wet vac (linked on my Amazon finds) and now it no longer is annoying. I enjoy it. Now it’s the getting called 80 x the first 15 minutes after bedtime😅 crazy how things just rotate. What phase are you in that is your patience pusher?? #motherhood #tedioustasks #somuchfun
Same same #areacodes Same same #areacodes
5ish years ago I was just a 22 year old who found 5ish years ago I was just a 22 year old who found out I was 5 months pregnant with this sweet little boy. Today we watched our sweet little surprise angel boy graduate preschool and in just a few months he’ll be off to kindergarten!! Life is so wild 🤯 
We have a way of planning out all these things for our life but sometimes while you’re busy making plans life just happens to you. Watching our first baby be the best big brother to his two baby sisters is the best thing ever and I just can’t believe our first baby is about to start a whole new chapter of independence!! We are going to continue to celebrating life’s surprises with our sweetest boy because this sweet boy has literally changed our life and brought us so much immeasurable joy, love and growth over these last 5 years!! We couldn’t be prouder of our sweet, sensitive, curious, evie king!!
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All Blog Posts, DIY & Home Design · October 15, 2021

Fall One Room Challenge: Week 2 &3

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This week I am combining week two and three updates because I started a week late. I have so many updates and it feels like it is really starting to come together but it also feels never ending because I everything in the room is a project! So just as a refresher, last week I announced that we are doing our bedroom for this one room challenge. We want it to feel like a relaxing and beautiful space to relax at the end of each night. Before it felt like a bunch of stuff just crowding us and none of our pieces were purposefully or beautiful…they were just what we had. Well I am still sticking to a lot of the same pieces that were in there but now I am making them the beautiful intentional pieces that I wanted in there in the first place. I’m just not buying new ones! Haha I am all for making a beautiful space for the least amount of spending! At first it was out of necessity but now it is like a challenge that I have for myself. I want all of the beautiful things I see on instagram but I also can’t justify spending thousands of dollars to redo every space in my house. So beautiful and timeless design on a serious budget is my goal for all projects! Which is why there are so many flips in this weeks update!

Projects That I Did This Week…

Furniture Flipping Projects

So this week was busy and it consisted of three furniture flips! One of which has been my favorite ever! Literally came out better than anything I was looking at new. Click here to see the details of the dresser flip/rebuild and both nightstand flip/rebuild!

I took the dresser apart and rebuilt the whole thing from top to bottom. I just spray painted the same hardware black and then used rub n buff to give it an aged brass look! This is my favorite trick to make anything look more expensive and timeless. The original knobs were like a clunky rounded wood. So it went from wood to aged brass and looks so beautiful!

The nightstand was this old dresser from ikea that had already been painted twice. First my sister did it blue and then I stole it from my mom’s closet and painted it white with new gold hardware a year or two ago. So I took it apart and added some “fluff” to better fit my design in the room now. It got some new trim, paint, new hardware (that I rub n buffed the same color) and legs. This one was my favorite! I also redid another small nightstand that I use on my side. It is tall and skinny and used to be my grandmothers so I wanted to keep it pretty much the smoke so I just gave this one a quick coat of paint and rub n buff’d the knob to match.

In between all of the furniture flips I was working on the feature wall! It actually worked out perfect because everytime I was waiting for the paint to dry I would just switch projects haha

Vertical Shiplap DIY – Budget Friendly

I did horizontal shiplap in the last One Room Challenge I did for the built-ins in the living room ( you can check that one out here if you haven’t already) and I loved it so I wanted to do it for our room but a little different. This time I did vertical shiplap and I had the intention to paint it a gray/green but once I put the primer on it I kinda loved the idea of white. So I painted the whole room white and I love it so I am keeping it white…. for now at least!

So this was probably the most expensive project in the room (so far) . It probably cost 45$ to do the whole back wall in faux shiplap! Literally my favorite diy hack! Real shiplap is thicker and actually interlocks creating the lines but it is way more expensive. So instead I rip down 4 by 8 sheets of underlayment (14$ a board) into 4.5 in strips and then nail them up using two quarters as a spacer to create the line. It honestly looks just like it! You would never know! Home Depot sometimes will rip this down for you on their vertical saw but they were giving me a hard time so I just did it on my table saw! I have this one from Ryobi one and it works great for my projects and is pretty affordable!

So I also painted the whole room white in Swiss Coffee by Behr. I love the creaminess of this white but it also doesn’t pull any yellow in my room! That sums up week 2 and 3 projects and progress! I actually was so excited with how much I was able to get done and can’t wait to move to the other part of the room!

Next Up Next Week…

Next week I am moving on to moving in the mirror above the dresser. I found a beautiful rounded dresser mirror that I refinished in a thin black frame! It was the perfect find for my mood board and was also free so double win! Then I will be moving to figuring out:

1. the closet situation…it is basically a disaster. Needs a whole storage situation update

2. my vanity… I already have a mini mirror and vanity station set up but it always gets messy and I feel like it takes up too much space in the room

3. Our tall dresser…. I love it but I feel like the tall dresser is very encroaching in the space BUT it does also house a lot of our clothes right now….

Stay tuned for next weeks updates! Follow me on instagram to follow along in real time @brooketanner and make sure to follow all of the other participants and designers in the One Room Challenge with Better Homes & Gardens at this link!

http://www.oneroomchallenge.com/orc-blog

They have some amazing projects happening right now!

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I haven’t had a solo picture up since I was preg I haven’t had a solo picture up since I was pregnant with Nyah. Its so unnatural for me to show my face without a baby in my hands or a project next to me but making an effort to be more comfortable just showing up all by myself. Also I loved this wall it’s making me wanna tile something! Also swipe to see the last picture I posted along 8 months pregnant with Nyah! Isn’t time & the way our bodies change jusy blow yours mind?! It it’s so wild! 🤰🏽🙌🏽 also low key miss being pregnant🤣 #motherhoodjourney #hiitsme #coolwalls #stpetersburgflorida
That’s motherhood I guess… it’ll never stay That’s motherhood I guess… it’ll never stay cleaned. #momhumor #motherhoodhumor #funnymom
Photo drop! I have so many in my favorites that I Photo drop! I have so many in my favorites that I forget about after I take them. My favorite people
The best days of my life #motherhood #photographer The best days of my life #motherhood #photographerlife #summervibes
4 months with our sweet miss Nyah girl & 4 months 4 months with our sweet miss Nyah girl & 4 months with our new couch #sponsored and let me just say you can keep our ex (couch) we love our @thefutonshop organic Modular sofa! Everyone always says the kitchen is the heart of the home but I’m starting to think it’s the couch💁🏽‍♀️. Newborn life has made me realize how much life happens on the couch- the breastfeeding, contact naps, movies, play time, fort building, mom+dad date nights in, working from home…so many hours on this couch snuggling these babies and doing life. 

We got the sofa within days of bringing Nyah home and it was perfect timing because we have been consciously making sustainable swaps to make our home safer for these babes! The Futon Shop is a small family owned business that uses environmentally friendly organic fibers to alleviate any negative health effects! Each piece of furniture is handmade in San Francisco since 1976 with no toxic chemicals or hazardous substances. 

So aside from being non-toxic, locally made, & family owned it is perfect for families!! Each cushion is removable so the kids use then to build forts and all sorts of creative play, each cushion cover is removable so I can wash everything EASILY🙌🏽🙌🏽, and it is modular so you can arrange it easily to fit any activity (or if your just like me and you need to rearrange your house every week). Save to say we love our new couch! Check out this amazing small business if you’re in the market for a new couch, mattress, bedding or so much more!  @the_futon_shop 🙌🏽💕
#naturalliving #organic #locallymade #smallliving #interiordesign #theeverygirlathome #thefutonshop #naturalhome #farmtofurniture #healthyhome #diycreator #smallfamilybusiness
They make my life… not even better they just mak They make my life… not even better they just make it💕 so excited it’s summer✨☀️🌊 they could live in the water!!
A day in the life The most tedious motherhood tas A day in the life 
The most tedious motherhood task for me was meal clean up-but then I got a wet vac (linked on my Amazon finds) and now it no longer is annoying. I enjoy it. Now it’s the getting called 80 x the first 15 minutes after bedtime😅 crazy how things just rotate. What phase are you in that is your patience pusher?? #motherhood #tedioustasks #somuchfun
Same same #areacodes Same same #areacodes
5ish years ago I was just a 22 year old who found 5ish years ago I was just a 22 year old who found out I was 5 months pregnant with this sweet little boy. Today we watched our sweet little surprise angel boy graduate preschool and in just a few months he’ll be off to kindergarten!! Life is so wild 🤯 
We have a way of planning out all these things for our life but sometimes while you’re busy making plans life just happens to you. Watching our first baby be the best big brother to his two baby sisters is the best thing ever and I just can’t believe our first baby is about to start a whole new chapter of independence!! We are going to continue to celebrating life’s surprises with our sweetest boy because this sweet boy has literally changed our life and brought us so much immeasurable joy, love and growth over these last 5 years!! We couldn’t be prouder of our sweet, sensitive, curious, evie king!!
POV you’re the baby of the family so you get a f POV you’re the baby of the family so you get a front row seat to the craziness. You can’t help but look and laugh knowing that you can do no wrong😂 #toddlerhumor #parentinghumor #mixedfamily

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I haven’t had a solo picture up since I was preg I haven’t had a solo picture up since I was pregnant with Nyah. Its so unnatural for me to show my face without a baby in my hands or a project next to me but making an effort to be more comfortable just showing up all by myself. Also I loved this wall it’s making me wanna tile something! Also swipe to see the last picture I posted along 8 months pregnant with Nyah! Isn’t time & the way our bodies change jusy blow yours mind?! It it’s so wild! 🤰🏽🙌🏽 also low key miss being pregnant🤣 #motherhoodjourney #hiitsme #coolwalls #stpetersburgflorida
That’s motherhood I guess… it’ll never stay That’s motherhood I guess… it’ll never stay cleaned. #momhumor #motherhoodhumor #funnymom
Photo drop! I have so many in my favorites that I Photo drop! I have so many in my favorites that I forget about after I take them. My favorite people
The best days of my life #motherhood #photographer The best days of my life #motherhood #photographerlife #summervibes
4 months with our sweet miss Nyah girl & 4 months 4 months with our sweet miss Nyah girl & 4 months with our new couch #sponsored and let me just say you can keep our ex (couch) we love our @thefutonshop organic Modular sofa! Everyone always says the kitchen is the heart of the home but I’m starting to think it’s the couch💁🏽‍♀️. Newborn life has made me realize how much life happens on the couch- the breastfeeding, contact naps, movies, play time, fort building, mom+dad date nights in, working from home…so many hours on this couch snuggling these babies and doing life. 

We got the sofa within days of bringing Nyah home and it was perfect timing because we have been consciously making sustainable swaps to make our home safer for these babes! The Futon Shop is a small family owned business that uses environmentally friendly organic fibers to alleviate any negative health effects! Each piece of furniture is handmade in San Francisco since 1976 with no toxic chemicals or hazardous substances. 

So aside from being non-toxic, locally made, & family owned it is perfect for families!! Each cushion is removable so the kids use then to build forts and all sorts of creative play, each cushion cover is removable so I can wash everything EASILY🙌🏽🙌🏽, and it is modular so you can arrange it easily to fit any activity (or if your just like me and you need to rearrange your house every week). Save to say we love our new couch! Check out this amazing small business if you’re in the market for a new couch, mattress, bedding or so much more!  @the_futon_shop 🙌🏽💕
#naturalliving #organic #locallymade #smallliving #interiordesign #theeverygirlathome #thefutonshop #naturalhome #farmtofurniture #healthyhome #diycreator #smallfamilybusiness
They make my life… not even better they just mak They make my life… not even better they just make it💕 so excited it’s summer✨☀️🌊 they could live in the water!!
A day in the life The most tedious motherhood tas A day in the life 
The most tedious motherhood task for me was meal clean up-but then I got a wet vac (linked on my Amazon finds) and now it no longer is annoying. I enjoy it. Now it’s the getting called 80 x the first 15 minutes after bedtime😅 crazy how things just rotate. What phase are you in that is your patience pusher?? #motherhood #tedioustasks #somuchfun
Same same #areacodes Same same #areacodes
5ish years ago I was just a 22 year old who found 5ish years ago I was just a 22 year old who found out I was 5 months pregnant with this sweet little boy. Today we watched our sweet little surprise angel boy graduate preschool and in just a few months he’ll be off to kindergarten!! Life is so wild 🤯 
We have a way of planning out all these things for our life but sometimes while you’re busy making plans life just happens to you. Watching our first baby be the best big brother to his two baby sisters is the best thing ever and I just can’t believe our first baby is about to start a whole new chapter of independence!! We are going to continue to celebrating life’s surprises with our sweetest boy because this sweet boy has literally changed our life and brought us so much immeasurable joy, love and growth over these last 5 years!! We couldn’t be prouder of our sweet, sensitive, curious, evie king!!
POV you’re the baby of the family so you get a f POV you’re the baby of the family so you get a front row seat to the craziness. You can’t help but look and laugh knowing that you can do no wrong😂 #toddlerhumor #parentinghumor #mixedfamily

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