The Accent Piece
A blog about DIY home projects, woodworking, and furniture builds!
In case you missed it: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In those posts, I talked about how I’m building built in bookshelves on either side the french doors in our home. I’m going for the custom built-in look with Ikea Billy Bookshelves as a starting point. I explained how …
If you missed the first part, check it out here and the second part here. In those posts, I talked about how I’m building built in bookshelves on either side the french doors in our home. I’m going for the custom built-in look with Ikea Billy Bookshelves as a starting point. I explained how to paint …
I feel like life hasn’t slowed down one bit since I’ve been home with Micah. We have had full days of playing, book reading, walks, play dates…all great things. So what’s a girl to do when she feels super busy already? Start a huge project of course! What else!? (It’s a sickness, I tell you.) …
I’m going to be an aunt! Actually both my sister and sister in law are pregnant (and both due within a month or so!) so Micah will have some cousins close in age. I’m so excited! I wanted to create some wall art for my nephew’s nursery and here’s what I can up with. I …
I found the perfect bench for the foot of the bed in our master bedroom from Wisteria. And it only costs $574.00 + plus tax! I guess I could pay that. Heeehehaha hahaha. Hah. Heh. No. So in true DIY knockoff fashion, I wanted to make one similar. Here’s how I did it: Start out by drawing …
It’s been awhile since I have re-finished a piece of furniture and it feels oh so good to get back into it. I got this piece a looong time ago. And by long time ago I mean its-been-a-year-because-I-couldn’t-decide-what-to-do-with-it-and-its-been-staring-at-me-ever-since. Consider ‘Project: Clean Out the Garage’ in full swing. And It only took me a year to …
In this post, I’m going to show you how I built a raised gardn planter box with legs out of reclaimed wood. The other day, Jon spotted an old cedar-planked dog house that someone was throwing away. So he loaded it up and came home with it. Consider my husband officially on the I-aint-ashamed-of-picking-up-other-people’s-trash train. …
I have wanted a farmhouse bed for our bedroom for quite awhile now. So, I set out to build a queen wood plank farmhouse headboard and a queen bed frame. I’ve outlined how I did it below and provided plans so you can build your own bed frame and headboard out of reclaimed (or new!) …
