A Pinch of Joy

Eat Healthy, Do it Yourself, Live Well, Have Fun.

Home decorating

Dress up your garage entry

When you park the car in your garage, do you walk around to the front door to enter the house?  I didn’t think so!  If your family is like most, chances are you come and go by the garage entry door something like 97.3% of the time.  I totally made up that statistic out of […]

Filed Under: Makeovers

How to hang a wall cabinet the easy way

So happy with the  transformation of my $5 bathroom cabinet!  I think it turned out well and I love, love, love the amount of storage we have now!   The white really pops against the new paint color — Frost, a very light gray with blue tones that goes from lavendar to blue to gray as […]

How to choose color for your home – part II

An oft repeated rule of thumb in choosing color for your home is to start with an accessory you love.  The theory is that it is easier to match paint to a color in an expensive or sentimental painting, vase, pillow than it is to find accessories to go with the color.  I did that […]

Stellar Staircases — The Results or How to install a stair runner

For weeks I dreamed of a stellar staircase with dark stained treads, white risers and swirling teal stenciled leaves.  Then reality happened and I found out there were some questions I should have answered first.  Now that we have the answers, here is where we arrived.  Those stairs needed padding and floor covering.  Not wall […]

Stellar Staircases – The vision

I love painted staircases.  Dark treads, painted or stained a deep rich brown.  Or may be black or a dark gray.  Light colored risers — preferably white to contrast with the dark tread.     I finally narrowed my Staircase dreams to ten possibilities. Classic dark and white appealed to me:                                                                        Bloomerism So did the dark […]