Home decor
A selection of my home decor projects – sharing my ideas and my inspirations.
My most recent articles
Custom Built Doors
We often get requests for custom built doors. Some are fairly simple like a pantry door, but others are far more complex. We've had requests from people who own brand new homes that want a feature door to lend some character. These are doors we've built as examples of...
Book Letters
In 2018, Larry and I discovered some block letters made from old Readers Digest books. We found them to be super cute and likely something others may want to buy. So, we got some and I began to read up on different methods of cutting these books. I saw...
New Stock at the Powderly Antique Mall
Once every few months we completely rework our rented space at the local antique mall. Bringing in new items, moving other items around always helps to sell the things we have there. So, this is the most recent look in our space.
A Mudroom Bench With a History
After seeing some doors for sale in our local swap shop we drove to the address listed. Upon our arrival, it was revealed to be Larry's Aunt and Uncle's former home. The owners were remodeling and changing out the doors. We discovered they were all solid red...
A New “Vintage” Pantry Door
I received a call from someone who had been to our antique mall booth and saw a hand-built pantry door. She was interested in an authentic antique door but was unable to find one. So, she asked if I could build her one. The catch was that she lived over 2 hours away...
Farmhouse Decor Trees
We found a design to build these farmhouse styled trees that are made from old interior doors. One weekend, I got the energy to try them out. This was just before Christmas in 2020. As I began to cut a door it became instantly clear that one door would make two trees!...
This door makes the difference! Is it a wine room? Or is it a Dog Kennel?
A regular customer contacted us to make her a door. She had a special request. She wanted to make her coat closet into a dog kennel that could have an open window for air flow. She also wanted it to go with some of her more rustic decor. She had an even more unique...