Photo by Maggie Rare Photography.
The reno phase for our “new” house has taken a little more than one year. For most of that time, I was at home in our roughly 500 square foot cabin with our baby.
My husband did the heavy lifting for the renovation, but I started pitching in at the baby’s nine month mark. One of my first jobs was to rehab the pantry shelving. This was not a job for the impatient, but it did give way to the idea for this blog.
In our pantry were about six shelves cut from raw wood. They were painted and covered in two layers of contact paper. It was my job to peel the paper from the shelves and to repaint them.
I was halfway through the peeling process when my husband asked me to go to Walmart for truck bed liner, which is designed to cover the inside of pickup truck beds but my husband thought it would a nice option for our pantry shelving.
I was willing to go with it as long as I could use my preferred color: white. But there is no white truck bed liner, at least not at Walmart. That idea was nixed but another one was born.
I got back home and couldn’t stop thinking about my husband’s “redneck” idea, where a redneck idea is one that combines thrift and ingenuity to create a fix that is irreverent and functional. (Think pickup truck bench seat turned porch furniture.)
With scraper in hand, I started to ask, “What if I could use Walmart and dollar store purchases reno projects that look fancy?”
So, now I am. And that’s what this blog is about.
