We’re the Franks. We’re fearless DIY-ers, determined to transform our home and yours! Stay a while and check out some of our guides.
All tagged DIY
Alright ya’ll, this is about as easy as it gets. This super simple DIY stair runner was the perfect finishing touch for our foyer. This space has come so far since we moved in. When we bought our home, our entrance was certainly plain looking.
READ MORE
I read this week that home and garden sales are at an all time high. Incidentally, the Franks’ family farm was established in 2020.
Apparently, we weren’t the only ones with this idea. It certainly makes sense that many people have found many fresh, new hobbies. It seems like everyone I know is baking bread, tie-dying, or gardening. You have to choose at least one. We chose gardening. I’m sure the bread baking and tie-dying will happen for us in due time.
We’ve never had a green thumb. Actually, I probably would have called myself a plant assassin up until this point. Which is a shame, because I actually come from a line of farmers! My grandmother still has large farms where she grows and harvests corn. So, I’m relying on the small hope that there’s some farmer in my blood. My goal is to make one salad. I’d like one beautiful salad fresh from our garden. But before we can start sharing vinaigrette recipes, we had to start from the ground up. So this week, we built raised beds for our vegetable garden.
READ MORE
Favorite/least favorite thing about our home — the quirks. Sometimes when a home has been around for years and years, it ends up as a hodgepodge of every previous owner’s taste and different iterations of change. Due to this, we have some strange layouts and oddities.
Take our bedroom for example, we get incredible light in our bedroom. Most of our bedroom walls are lined with windows. Said windows came with (beautiful) plantation shutters already installed. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love the plantation shutters. However, it leaves us with only one wall in which our bed can be placed.
READ MORE
I can hardly believe we’re approaching two whole years in our house! We’ve come a long way since we moved in. We’ve done a dozen or more projects on this old, 1901 farmhouse, and we’re only just starting to writing them down. Hindsight is 20/20 (Happy New Year, ya’ll).
Our first major project of the new year was a DIY fireplace makeover. If you can believe it, this entire project only cost us about $200. And, with the help of some thoughtfully-gifted Home Depot gift cards (thanks Mom and Dad), we were able to only spend about $150 out of pocket.
