Farm to Table recipes and Homemade Natural Living
Add some charming shiplap to your old farmhouse or modern day homestead with these easy DIY shiplap accent wall tutorial. In just under a day you can transform your space and make it brighter, and add some traditional farmhouse charm too. Ah, shiplap.
Learn how to make beeswax candles that are naturally scented with essential oils. These candles make a great homemade gift idea that smells natural, fresh, and is purifying for your air too. With just a few mason jars and some beeswax, you can make these beeswax candles and even save some money too!
A few weeks ago John and I decided we wanted open shelving in the kitchen. Well, basically I decided, but John agreed. It’s becoming popular now and I wanted a more traditional farmhouse look, and to be able to see in my cabinets. So instead of finding some new shelves, taking down our old ones, and installing new ones, we found an easy DIY open shelving hack to achieve this. So if you are reading this, let me know what you think. Did we pull off open shelving?
About ten years ago I started buying natural products at the grocery store. But there were still so may ingredients I didn’t understand written on the back. I just wanted to put as few ingredients as possible on my body and in our house, so I started making my own products with essential oils. In this post you’ll learn all about how we use essential oils at the farmhouse.
I meant to write this post a long time ago, but you know I just kind of procrastinated and here we are. Lots of people ask about this chicken coop so I’m excited to write a post about it. Learn how to build a chicken coop that meets all your small farm dreams, and the girls love it too.
Learn how to build a farmhouse dining table of your dreams. Farmhouse dining tables are no new feat, but can be brought into any home to bring a sense of warmth, character, and good ‘ol fashion togetherness. My husband John and I built this table because we wanted to be able to use our own hands to build something for our little farmhouse here in the Pacific Northwest.
We have two different gardens in our small homestead backyard. This year we chose to use a galvanized horse trough for a planter box and build a cedar wood stand under it. That way, we’ll have one planter box on the deck and the other on the ground. Come see how we built and filled our DIY farmhouse planter box stand as we started planting seeds this spring at the homestead.
When our local coffee store posted on Instagram that they were giving away a free side table, I immediately thought of the perfect DIY project. I think that’s called having a DIY brain. Well for a few dollars worth of paint and not even an entire afternoon, I had myself a sweet vintage side table. If you’ve never refinished wood before, it’s easy! Keep reading to see how we did this DIY refinished antique side table for $10 and only a couple hours!
We had an awkward empty space in our garage that had some flimsy shelves in it before we built this DIY custom garage shelf. With the garage being right next to our kitchen, it made a lot of sense to invest some time and effort into getting a good shelf to hold food and other items. Plus, who wants to see toilet paper, paper towels, and other bulk items lying around the garage? So we wanted a permanent home for these items. And having a DIY spirit, my husband, John, bought some wood and only spent about 4 hours building this DIY Custom Garage Shelf.
