**This post contains affiliate links. Wow! I can't believe that Christmas is over and that 2015 is almost here! This year has been a blur for my family -- time is just FLYING by! 2014 was fun, though! I shared a lot of cool and fun projects! Today I thought I'd share the posts that were most popular on Mom Home Guide in 2014! 1) Free Printable 2015 Calendar In September, I created a free printable calendar for Mom Home Guide's readers. Now that my kids are in middle school, life is busier, and we have to plan ahead! To keep your family on schedule in 2015, feel free to Continue reading...
Six Basement Rec Room Must Haves
*This post contains affiliate links from Amazon.com, but all opinions expressed here are completely my own. Now that my kids are tweens, I really have been wishing that I could remodel our basement into a clean and fun basement rec room. I don't know if I'll ever be able to create this dream space in my home, but I created this wish list of basement rec room must-haves anyway! I'd also love to hear what you think are essential items for a basement rec room space! Basement Rec Room Essentials 1. Colorful Artwork. Anyone renovating an unfinished basement into a basement Continue reading...
Sunny & Bright Living Room
*Mohawk Home provided an area rug for this makeover. Hi, everyone! I have been loving my new living room! It has been through quite a transformation. It has gone from an unattractive area with two toy boxes and lots of toys, to a space that actually looks like a grown-up and complete room! My kids, who are now tweens, are enjoying the more sophisticated space, too! Since friends have asked where I found my furniture and decor for my new living room, I've decided to follow the lead of fellow blogger Abby from Just a Girl and Her Blog and create a source list for my new living room. Abby Continue reading...
Kids Bedrooms
*This post contains affiliate and sponsored links. Finding enough storage in kids bedrooms can be tough, but if you buy furniture and accessories with storage in mind, you should be able to find plenty of storage for kids rooms. My daughters, 11, are twins and enjoy sharing a room. So, when I chose the children’s furniture for their kids room, I chose children’s furniture that would give us the most space as possible for storing their things. Their room is fairly large, but not that big, considering that we must fit two twin beds in there, a dresser, and as many places as possible Continue reading...
Mom Home Guide House Tour
*This post contains affiliate links. I just love looking at online house tours of other mom bloggers’ homes. To me, my home is a work in progress. Over the past few months, I’ve completed a few home improvements, like decorating and furnishing my home's living room, making my home’s mudroom/foyer area more functional, creating a fun study/media/play space for the kids and adding more privacy to my home’s backyard. There are several more projects I’d like to complete — some of the wishes on my wish list include hardwood flooring and making our unfinished basement more livable, but I am not Continue reading...
Crushing on Garden Stools
Memorial Day Blow-Out! Enjoy up to 70% off everything you need for the weekend. * This post contains affiliate links. All opinions expressed in this post are 100% mine. One of the hottest decor trends I've seen this year is the popularity of garden stools, sometimes called "drum tables." These design accents, often made out of ceramic or shimmery metal, are fun and versatile. Garden stools come in a wide variety of shades, including white, silver, gold, greens, blues, reds and yellows. The use of these drum-shaped stools are said to have originated in China at least 1,000 years ago, Continue reading...
Easy Cloth Napkin Pillows
Hello! I am back talking about easy DIY pillows again. (I last posted about my cloth placemat pillows.) As you probably know, I am in LOVE with my new Mohawk Home area rug, and my La-Z-Boy sofa, which I adore dressing up and making look pretty. So, when I found 4-packs of cloth napkins on sale at Target for less than $3 a pack, I had to snag them! I just love the pretty prints. I knew I could transform the cloth napkins into DIY cloth napkin pillows for my new La-Z-Boy sofa! I bought three packs of the cloth napkins. Since four napkins are in each pack, I could make Continue reading...
Mohawk Rug Giveaway and Review
My new living room sofa from La-Z-Boy came last week, and I am so happy! I love the way the new sofa (the Kennedy sofa in “acorn”) looks against the new Mohawk rug that was given to me by Mohawk Home! What’s great is that Mohawk Home will give a Mohawk rug at a value of up to $150 (reader's choice) to one of Mom Home Guide's readers, too! To participate in the Mohawk rug giveaway, just enter the Rafflecopter form in this post! Mohawk Chevron Area Rug For my home’s living room I chose the Mohawk Twill woven area rug in gold. The 60" x 84" Mohawk Twill woven area rug Continue reading...
“Rooms Repurposed” — Making Your Home Work for You
A few months ago, I shared with you my friend Christine's awesome black and white craft room. Christine converted what might have been only a lightly used space in her home -- an area that would normally be a dining room -- and converted it into a striking craft room, complete with hand-crafted black and white decor, a card catalog for fabric storage and a highly functional sewing table. I am so excited because that room is now one of the inspiring spaces featured in Cristin Frank's new book, Rooms Repurposed: A Purposeful Home, A Purposeful Life, available on Amazon.com! What Continue reading...
West Elm Yellow, Brown and Gray Living Room
I am hoping to redecorate my home's living room, and I am so excited! For my Christmas gift, my husband made me a popsicle stick sofa (so cute) and said I could go shopping for a sofa. I can't wait! I've done a little shopping so far, and at the moment, I am crushing on West Elm! I love their modern color schemes and their small-scale furniture, which should work for my small living room. I am loving a yellow, brown and gray color scheme. I have my eye on the Paidge sofa. Isn't it cute? At 72.5"w x 38.5"d x 34.5"h., I think it would fit well in my home's small 20 foot x 10 foot living Continue reading...