Fixer Upper

Stuart and I have recently found an obsession in HGTV home makeover shows, but one in particular has us tuned in every Thursday night.

Fixer Upper is a home improvement show where Chip and Joanna Gaines help clients find the perfect home for them starting at the house hunting process, then renovation and then revealing the home to it’s newest owners. Joanna’s knack for design inspired her to start a local boutique and a blog that captured the attention of HGTV. Before they knew it, the couple landed themselves a series highlighting the renovation and realty aspect of their business.  You can tune into HGTV’s show, Fixer Upper, to watch Chip and Joanna take clients through the process of finding the right home, renovating the imperfections, and revealing the home as it was always meant to be.After searching for a house of our own since the beginning of May, we are now considering a fixer upper ourselves. Stu had always kept the idea open, but Im so ready to get out of our tiny apartment that I was just looking for those move in ready homes. Since my mom flips houses as a living, she has always encouraged us to go with the fixer upper route. Now after watching the first season of Fixer Upper, I am board! The way that this team takes an old broken down house and turns it into a new, renovated, and classic home is priceless. I love Joanna’s style of decorating which she describes as simple and classic, farm inspired, industrial and unexpected.  I now have so many ideas of things I would like in our own house one day! You can check out their website here: magnoliahomes.net

I soooo want to make our own dining room table now. After seeing a few tables they had refinished and refurbished on the show, I now want one too! This picture is similar to what I am looking for, but this looks like they took a table, antiqued it and then nailed some old wood on top. I’m sure it’s more complicated than that!

After using these doors at our wedding, I would love to turn them into head boards for our bed! But since Stu and I obviously only need one, looks like a guest bedroom may be getting one too! I think I would like to have the wood quote hanging somewhere in our house as well! That wood was from an old fence my dad tore down from his house shortly before out wedding :) Mom actually took down the doors from an old family owned house and refinished them to look the way they do. 

I love looking at peoples DIY ideas with pallets and here are a couple that I’d like to incorporate in our bathroom and kids room!

Lastly, I have become super interested in redoing an old dresser. After searching through pictures on the Southern Revivals Blog, I know I can do it too. I would love to have something like this sitting in our den or hallway! And I love the idea of cutting the legs off and using it as a seat!