DIY With Lisa & Ty

Time heals most wounds.  I will start with the exciting news that Ty and I had decided to NOT DIY this ONE project and instead decided to hire out the job of having someone install roughly 800 sq. ft. of solid strand bamboo wood flooring.  This stuff is HARD and dulls a saw blade FAST. Plus, that's a LOT of square footage to try to DIY with 3 kids and 3 dogs running around.  We decided to let someone else handle this project. Were we wrong on this one!  Let's start with a photo tour of the bad.  Ty and his dad and a friend of ours worked for 2 days to remove the parquet flooring in our entry and dining room.  Our agreement with the installer was that we would do as much as we could of the tear out to help save costs.  Our installer, let's call him...Mel, said that was fine and his guys would take care of the carpet since it was just pulling it up.  Well...We did the kitchen, the dining room and a big part of the entryway. My friend Michele and I did the small &

Step by Step DIY Lace Painted & Stained Stairs Have you ever wanted to rip all the carpet off your stairs and just do something with whatever you find underneath?  That's exactly what Ty and I did. After I talked about doing ANYTHING to the stairs as long as it wasn't more carpet. We knew we were going to be putting in new flooring in the next month. So no time like that weekend to undertake this project. We start most projects on a Friday night and try to have them done by Saturday night if they are small.  This project took a little longer because of temps and dry time and we were working with ebony stain and that just seems to take FOREVER anyway.  We finished this project that Sunday night and have loved each step of this projects.  While Ty was at work I ripped all the carpet off the stairs. So nice of me right? He came home to this and his reply was "so are we doing this THIS weekend?"  This is the only stair tread we had to replace. We just