La Casita Blog
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How to Plan for a DIY Project!
In this post, you will learn how to plan for a DIY project! The best part is you can use this post as a guide for practically any project, big or small. All projects start the same but they branch out depending on what you are doing. Whether it’s a mini-makeover, or you are building…
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DIY Accent Wall with Secret Door
2020 has been a year of many challenges! Within those challenges, staying at home because of quarantine tops the list for many of us. One part of that struggle maybe not knowing what to do with yourself. Subsequently, you may find yourself picking fights with loved ones on stuff like “you are breathing too hard”…
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DIY Front Porch Pergola
Today we bring you the story behind our DIY front porch pergola! If you can remember, the exterior was beige, and among one of our first DIY projects was the extension of the front porch, complete with a white pergola. We recently painted our house exterior, in Alabaster by Sherwin Williams, against which the cute…
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How to Whitewash Exterior Brick Easily
Recently we had our house painted, thank God! It was brown. Mojon brown (If you know, you know!). Just like every other finish in our home. People, mi gente! We waited and lived with that sad finish for the past 4 years, every year hoping we’d finally be able to afford a paint job. Finally,…
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DIY Bedroom Accent Wall
Ah! Nothing like retreating to a beautiful and cozy bedroom after a long day! Where you feel soothed and relaxed, except, in my case, we weren’t. Our master bedroom was the antonym of that. It was dark, cluttered, and not at all appealing. Of course, with some cleaning and organizing we got the clutter fixed,…
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Easy DIY House Number Sign
Do you have scrap wood laying around? Looking for an easy way to upgrade your curb appeal? Well, today we bring you a quick and easy DIY house number sign tutorial to help you spruce up your homes curb appeal! We are constantly trying to love our home again by working on a project around…
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Easy DIY Board and Batten Tutorial
Yes, this is in fact yet another DIY board and batten tutorial! Posts like this aren’t hard to find, and yet here we are! Adding to the 3,600,000 available search results for the term DIY board and batten. So what’s the point? Well, we don’t just want to just be another easy DIY board and…
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Dios Nos Purifica Con La Espera Y Nos Da Las Cosas Purificadas
Ever wanted something so bad you were willing to do anything to achieve it? Ever prayed so hard for that one thing that you thought you needed so badly and after much longer than anticipated, if it were so willed, it came to fulfillment. Perhaps even at the moment or manner you were least expecting?…
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DIY Floating Deck
Now that the weather is getting warmer and warmer, it’s time to bring those tools outside and do some outdoor projects. Remember that front porch pergola DIY from a few weeks back? Well in continuation of our outdoor projects, today we bring you our DIY floating deck, which we fondly refer to as our boardwalk.…
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DIY Built-In Wardrobe
You know what we think is key to a happy marriage? Separate closets! We know, we know- first world problems, hehe. While we’re joking, we’re also kinda not! There’s nothing like having one’s own space; maybe you’re lucky enough to have a home office all your own, or a craft room or some other special…