This loveseat was for my client that was redoing her basement and turning it into a playroom. She got her fabric from Ikea. She said it was such a random crazy pattern, that she didn’t think it needed to be matched up….but I couldn’t help myself, I pattern matched the seat cushions to the back cushions (mountain continues).

She chose the no skirt option, so we just ended it with piping. I think the kids will love it!

So last week my dad was in town and wanted to know if we wanted help on a project….uh yes the deck at the cabin needed some serious help.

About 4 months ago I found a great deal on composite decking on ksl.com, so I borrowed the neighbors trailer, packed up the kids drove 1.5 hrs to Brigham city to pick it up….by myself because Heber didn’t want to think about the deck yet. I hate when he’s right, that was the worst day. It took 2.5 hrs to load it and figure out how to tie it down correctly.

When we were about 25 miles from the cabin I hear a loud pop, it’s almost completely dark, it’s cold. I pull over to check it out. I have a flat tire on the borrowed trailer. Good thing they insisted on sending me with the spare tire. Only problem, I have never changed a tire before. No worries, I flagged down anyone that would stop. A nice gentleman helped me out and changed the tire after he drove back home to get some more tools.

Let’s just say I left my house at 3:30pm and arrived at the cabin at 10:30pm….next time I will happily pay the delivery fee.

Picture of the deck before

My dad and the boys working on the demo. Check out all that dry rot!

Here are my oldest two boys with my dad. They worked hard and we finished the demo in 2.5 hrs.

Even Luke got in on the demo fun.

The boys helped carry the new supplies up our 26 stairs.

The deck being reframed with some new joists

Here is a pic of the whole family, everyone helped lay the new deck.

Half way done.

Mostly finished …we still need to do some trim work. The handrail and the lower deck are going to be next years project.

So I met this girl, NataLee at the fabric store the other day and we started talking while the computers were down. She had lots of cute fabric in her cart. So we exchanged cards, she’s a designer. I came home and looked at her blog, uh HELLO she was on Design Star season 4 in LA. Anyhow, she emailed me and wanted me to do a guest post on her blog. So click on the following link http://designedtothenines.com/ to check it out.