DIY Beginner Basics + Renovate with Honey Built Home

Christine

I'm here to help you  stop waiting, and start creating a home you love.  So let's dive in and get YOU started.

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Board and Batten

Master Bedroom Reveal

It’s finally reveal day for this 6 week, One Room Challenge, and I couldn’t be happier with how the transformation for the master bedroom turned out. To see all of the amazing One Room Challenge designer reveals be sure to click here. But first, before the reveal let’s appreciate how the room looked BEFORE, and […]

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5 Reasons to upgrade to a Smart Switch

Here’s 5 reasons why I, and why you, should upgrade from a regular old light switch to a Legrand smart switch. This post is sponsored by Legrand. For tutorial on how to build this king canopy bed click here, for all the details on the board and batten install click here. Legrand provides all the […]

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How to Build an Upholstered Canopy King Bed.

We are already onto week 4 of the One Room Challenge and I’ve entered woodworker mode. I am attempting to build a Pottery Barn Upholstered Canopy King Bed for my master bedroom Reno. Be sure to click on over and see what the other One Room Challenge Guest Participants are up to on week 4 […]

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How to Paint a Boho Wall with a Stencil

This post is sponsored by Cutting Edge Stencils. Creating a boho inspired room for Harper, I knew I couldn’t do a traditional wood wall treatment, and I needed a fun pattern but didn’t want to fully commit our budget to wallpaper. Once I saw the magnolia and berries stencil from Cutting Edge Stencil I knew […]

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DIY Cane Daybed CB2 Dupe

I searched high and low for an affordable natural element twin / daybed and came up with some beautiful options, but none within my budget for a two-year-old’s bedroom. This bed right here from CB2 is $978, and I was able to build a pretty dupe cane daybed for $150!   How to Build a […]

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Meet Christine Gummersall, a mother of 4, coach's wife, former Labor and Delivery nurse, and self taught DIYer who decided to take a sledge hammer to her 1950's bathroom over a decade ago and hasn't stopped tackling her honey-do list since.  Folow along as christine breaks down the pretty afters, by showing the whole how to process and empowers you to STOP waiting, and START creating a home you love, with your own two hands! 

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DIY Beginner Basics is a self-paced ONLINE COURSE that is here to help get you comforable with power tools and finishing supplies (such as paint), so you can start tackling your own honey-do list and save thousands, all while getting the satisfaction of saying, "yeah, I built that!"

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