Suzannah Hamlin Stanley's Blog, page 15

10 favorite FREE download tree art pieces

There are so many great options out there these days for art!! Lots of print shops, DIY art ideas, and museums providing free downloads. It's overwhelming. I actually got a request from an Instagram follower for a collection of my favorite pieces of tree art, and I thought... yes! I do have a list!

Her request came after I shared this fabulous large art I just got for our bedroom. It's a print of an etching done by Bertha Jaques in 1937, and it's available for download (Cabin in Wilderness | Smit...

Top organization tips I actually use

There are so many popular organization and decluttering tips these days, and we’ve talked about a lot of them in the past! 
This week on the Your Home Story Podcast we’re sharing our top faves that we actually do at home as part of our normal routines. We share about dressers/clothes, kitchen storage, cleaning, and more!
Resources mentioned:
Episode 112: Kitchen OrganizationEpisode 119: Bathroom OrganizationEpisode 134: Paper OrganizationEpisode 140: How to Organize & Store DIY & Household Supplies...

Lessons learned: 3 things to remember for your bathroom reno

This is a funny post. We've redone two bathrooms in the past two years and we're done for now, but I just installed a new toilet handle downstairs and wow, I should have done that when we first renovated it!! A detail like a toilet handle that matches the faucet and towel bars make a big difference, but I overlooked it before. Sharing that and other lessons I've learned for bathroom renos!

If you're tackling a bathroom reno, you've probably researched a lot of the important steps and made a shopp...

Home office design and function - now that so many of us work from home!

With a 2021 work-from-home update, I'm doing a deep dive into office design and function. 
This week on the Your Home Story Podcast, we cover the utilitarian essentials (and how to make them more attractive), some design features you can add that are also practical, and facts of office space life like the table-vs-desk debate for work surfaces. From this office makeover I did last spring

We talked about so many ideas and solutions (contains affiliate links):
My upstairs officeMy dining room desk and...

Intentional living interview with one of my favorites: inspiring classic design and DIYs

Nancy from the Instagram account @thehillsidehouse is one of my all-time favorites to follow and be inspired by.
She's our guest on the Your Home Story podcast this week and she’s chatting about adding warmth and coziness in home, how she wants her house to feel welcoming, the basis of her designs, and her love of DIY projects.
Some of our favorite views of her home include this view of her dining table that we talked about on the show today, her bedroom with the millwork that she added, and the b...

One-weekend closet repair and reveal! KILZ® Primer and pretty paint

OMG! I never thought I would be motivated to do this, but I just finished a great project and I went bold! One of the closets at the top of our stairs is a great one for my clothes, but was in bad shape--lots of scratches and cracks in the plaster and seriously probably hadn’t been painted since the house was built in 1937. There were stains and the walls just looked terrible, and painting it a fresh coat of white just sounded boring, and like it probably wouldn’t even work to cover everything. ...

Historic home tour: Elegant updated Chicago foursquare

I am SO excited to share this home with you! The inspiration for my Instagram home tour series, my friend Hannah Hamburger (@hamb.home)'s 110-year-old home outside Chicago has lots of historic character as well as her high quality updates.

Here are some of Hannah's words:

When looking for a home for our growing family, I craved a home with history, a happy home where we could raise our kids and make our own memories. We took on our 2nd fixer upper in 3 years and set out to honor the history of the...

All about glue and adhesives for DIYers

I always like to have the right tools for the job, so I enjoy researching different types of the same category--like nerding out on types of glues and adhesives. 

This week on the Your Home Story Podcast: from yellow wood glue to rubber cement, tune in to hear about specific capabilities and what types of DIY projects you should be doing with these eleven different glue types.

From my DIY fabric-covered lampshade project, which used spray adhesive and Tacky Glue
Glue types we covered in this episod...

Front entry update: wallpaper!!!

Woohoo!! Did a simple project this weekend and our front door entry vestibule got a great update!! I haven't used wallpaper in a couple years 3.5 years now but I'm drawn to it more and more these days. It can be funky/boho, midcentury modern-ey, or (my current fave) traditional. I balance traditional with modern in our historic home and I chose a pattern that's contemporary but kind of has an art deco vibe that even mimics the original light fixture we have hanging in that space!

Thanks to Tempap...

How to layer vintage rugs in a bedroom! I'm obsessed!

I've been working on our bedroom the past few months since we moved our bedrooms around and moved upstairs. We're in a large square room with sloped, low ceilings (7' at the highest) and one window. (You can see my posts about it in my recent bedroom posts.) We upgraded to a king-sized bed and got a nice big 9'x12' rug to fill the room a little better, but it's been feeling kind of plain. Even with the fun pattern and color I've added with the DIY fabric-covered sconce shades and dyed curtains.

I...