Easy DIY Barn Door

MarciaSocas DIY a Modern Barn Door using your existing old slab door. Today I’m taking this plain and worn looking old pantry door and making it over into a beautiful barn door. You can use this DIY barn door project to convert your own doors into a modern barn door or rustic barn doors, depending … Read more

Mistakes to Avoid when You Install Kitchen Cabinet Pulls [free template]

MarciaSocas How to Install Cabinet Pulls Adding kitchen cabinet pulls transformed the look and feel of this renovated condo. We flipped this condo in just two weeks, and saving time on the kitchen while making it look great was essential to our success. Avoid the mistakes I made when you install kitchen cabinet pulls. Adding … Read more

Harry Potter and Disney Princess Rooms!

Princess bedroom and Harry Potter room designs, before and after photos and info

Kitchen Redesign–Condo Kitchen Remodel Before and After

MarciaSocas Condo Kitchen Remodel Before and After Two months ago, we purchased a condo in a fantastic gated golf community here in Orlando, Florida at Ventura Country Club. The biggest drawback to this condo was the extremely small and narrow kitchen. I’m not sure how this type of kitchen was constructed, the opening to the … Read more

Wood Cabinets White Counter: Renovation

MarciaSocas Updating early 2000s kitchen. Wood cabinets white counter. Follow along the renovation and updating of my 2000s kitchen to one with wood cabinets and while marble countertops. The kitchen looked out of date but I didn’t want to spend a fortune on updating it. View the before and after photos as we take this … Read more

Rental Renovation: The transformation of a long time rental

MarciaSocas Rental Renovation. We bought a rental back in 2006, at the height of the market. Pricing crashed soon after and we couldn’t sell the property. So, we decided to hold it and rent it. We had steady tenants there for a long time, but they didn’t take care of the home and it started … Read more