Wow, only 12 more days until Christmas! It's been full speed ahead the last few days. The Christmas season gets busy for everyone and today I want to talk about my favorite room in the house for rest, our bedroom. Being the parents of five children it's important to...
Do you love the smell of fresh evergreens at Christmastime? You can get the lovely scent when you use fresh evergreen Christmas arrangements. A Classic Christmas Choice When you think of Christmas colors green and red come to mind. When I envision the color green at...
Who doesn't love a beautiful Christmas centerpiece on your table or kitchen island? A centerpiece sets the tone for a room, or dinner celebration, and is especially festive at Christmas. It's the added touch that goes a long way to make a home feel special. With so...
Tradition brings a lot of comfort to people at Christmas. Like most of you we've made gong to get our Christmas tree a yearly tradition. We often cut down our own tree. Jeremy loves doing this tradition. I think it has something to do with holding a saw and walking...
Have you been shocked by your grocery bill lately? I decided it was time to save money so I completely thrifted a Fall table setting. Thrifting and Fall don't seem to have much in common, except they do! Fall is a time to harvest and Thrift store are ripe for the...
Welcome to Pure Happy Home! A home design and DIY blog encouraging and helping you to design spaces you love. Here you’ll find budget makeovers, design tips and creative ideas you can apply to your home. Follow along as our family of 7 works to make our home more beautiful and our relationships closer.
Watch how I easily transformed a dated-looking 80's coffee table by using this unfinished wood furniture hack without sanding. Sometimes happy DIY fails happen! I just had one and I'm so relieved it actually turned out to be a good thing. No, a great thing because I...
March is here! I was talking to some Instagram friends who live in northern climates and we agreed it can be a challenging month for us. So many people in warmer states are experiencing sunshine and the greening of their landscapes, but not us. Here in Michigan and in...
When we started house shopping several years ago, we soon realized we had to figure out how to affordably add character to a builder-grade home. The homes in our price range and desired location just didn't have much, if any, architectural beauty in them. Here are...
5 Easy Home Tips for Hosting Guests
It blows my mind that nine days ago I was enjoying 68-degree weather and golfing with the kids. Now we have 4 inches of snow on the ground and it's 35 degrees outside. The good news is, it's given me even more of a reason to start Christmas decorating. Today I'm...
Today I'm so happy to join some talented blogger friends for the 14 Days of Christmas Blog Hop. We're all sharing Christmas cheer and inspiration! I knew exactly what I wanted to try when I heard about this Christmas blog hop. Orange slice ornaments! Simple Dried...
Did you all have a good weekend? Yesterday was the day I had set aside to decorate for Christmas and then guess what happened? You'd think this would speed up my decorating for the Holidays, but not really. Instead, I kept looking out the window at our garden and...
