Everything Home Magazine

I am so excited to announce that I will be a writer for the brand new Everything Home Magazine! It's a monthly online home decor (& more) magazine written by your favorite bloggers & Instagram friends. I will be the contributor for the Room Renovations column. (Pinch me... In case I'm dreaming!) I've known about this for a while and still can't believe it is really happening! It's an amazing opportunity that I am so blessed to be a part of! Many of you may not know this, but I have a home decor Instagram page @jillykay. You can follow along if you love all things decor. Click on the link in the right sidebar to follow!

I am honored to be a part of this talented group of contributors! It is going to be an AMAZING magazine featuring so many familiar faces in the Instagram & blogging communities. Follow us on Instagram @everythinghomemagazine to meet the editorial team, get exciting updates & to see all the hashtags to use to get the chance to be FEATURED!

Collette and Daraka are the editors and take care of all the behind the scenes work for the magazine. Thank you both for all your hard work! Thank you Collette for dreaming this up. So excited to see your vision come to life!

Those pictured above are the monthly contributors. Each and every one of them are amazing and have a very unique style. I am blessed to call them friends!

I was thrilled to be asked to write for the Room Renovations column. Room renovations make me giddy every time I see a room transform. I have a passion for all things DIY and love to see a room become a beautiful and usable space. Be sure to tag your Instagram before & after pictures with the hashtag #EHroomreno for a chance to be featured. I'll be looking for them!

I love that the magazine will be featuring those that own small businesses as well! Do you own a small business or have an etsy shop that you would like our readers to learn about? You can advertise in the magazine! Send an email to everythinghomemagazine@yahoo.com for more information.

Our first issue will be available on November 1st! You can go to the website to enter your email address to have the digital magazine delivered right to your inbox. Keep checking the Everything Home Magazine website, facebook page and instagram for updates!

Home office makeover (Wood floor update)

I'm back for a flooring update in my home office! In my last post, I gave detailed instructions on how my husband and I completed the DIY shiplap wall. Take a look to see how easy it is! We installed the hardwood flooring several weeks ago and it really transformed the entire room. I just thought I loved this room. I REALLY love this room now!

The amazing faux buck mount, Earl is from Painted Fox. Earl completely makes this room and is a fabulous focal point when you walk in. Click on the Painted Fox link on the right sidebar to shop! It's my favorite place to shop for farmhouse home decor!

The shiplap wall is painted in the color Antique White and the remaining walls are Mindful Gray. Both are from Sherwin Williams. The amazing desk and chair are from Nebraska Furniture Mart. The desk is made by Hooker and the chair is made by Ashley, but go perfect together. I love that place and could literally spend all day looking in there! I placed the Everett Foyer Table from World Market behind my desk and it provides plenty of room for my filing boxes, lamps and storage boxes below.

This set of bookcases and storage cabinet was once very dark brown. I grabbed my trusty paintbrush and a few quarts of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in the color Pure White and went to work! Love how clean and bright it is now. 

These cute little shelves came from Target. I fell in love with them when I saw them and knew they would be perfect for the shiplap wall. 

 My husband did a great job laying the hardwood floors. We went with handscraped hickory and absolutely love them! They are made by Regal Hardwoods. We looked for almost two years and could never find floors we loved. These were worth the wait! We LOVE them! They are a part of the Old Time Luxe collection and the stain color is Kensington.

We decided to float the floors instead of going with the glue down method. The installation was much easier this way!

I was getting pretty giddy at this point and was doing a happy dance on my brand new floors!

I love all the scrapes and color variations in the wood. Each square foot is scraped by hand by three craftsmen for 25 minutes! Wowzers! I wish the pictures would show the detail, but it simply doesn't do the floors justice.

Here's a before picture of my office. It wasn't bad, but not the look I was wanting. I spend a lot of time in this room and am so happy with every detail now!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope to have a few more rooms to show soon.

My home office makeover

Hi everyone! I am so stinkin' excited about my latest DIY project! My husband and I just finished with my home office makeover. I spend a lot of time in here working on my Young Living Essential Oil business, so I wanted it to be a pretty and relaxing space. Mission accomplished!

My office wasn't bad before (pictured above), but I had a vision in my head that I wanted to come to life. I kept the same paint color, Sherwin Williams Mindful Gray, on the remaining walls and put up shiplap on the focal wall behind my desk.

My amazing and very handy hubby put up the shiplap. I am a very awesome woodworking assistant, though! hehehe :) We used maple plywood underlayment from Lowes. They were nice enough to cut it into 5 and a half inch strips for us. That saved us a TON of work! We started with a thin piece of molding at the top since my ceilings in this room are angled. We marked the studs in the wall and penciled in lines so we would know where to nail with the nail gun. We used very random placement with the longer boards and filled in with the shorter boards. Nickel's were used as spacers... I'm still finding them in the carpet! lol

I used Sherwin Williams Antique White for the shiplap wall. I went with this color because it is the same color as the trim in the rest of the house. I ended up deciding to leave the nail holes at the last minute... I LOVE the rustic look of the holes. I was going for an old look for this project.

Earl, the amazing faux stag mount came from one of my favorite online home decor boutiques, www.paintedfoxtreasures.com I could seriously decorate my entire house with their items. Go check them out! They are very sweet ladies too!



I am so thrilled with how this project turned out! We put the shiplap up in a day, start to finish and it completely changed the room. This may be my new favorite room in our home! Only thing left for this room is installing hardwood floors. Hopefully, this will be soon! Thanks for reading!