Who We Are

I’m Shelbi..the girl behind the blog! I have a passion for transforming spaces into beautiful, comfortable and unique places that reflect the families who live in them. I’m a firm believer that your home should be your happy place and I love helping people transform their spaces into just that!

I’m married to a pretty cool dude {Blake}, who I like to make double as my contractor for all things painting, hanging, sawing, etc. Lucky for me, he’s a good sport about it {while giving me a fair amount of grief.. to be expected}

We have 3 awesome kiddos {Charlotte, AKA Sissy - 3, Dean - 2, and Maverick - baby} and the derpiest, best dog you’ll ever come across {Copper}. It’s been an exciting {and busy} last year for our fam, as we just wrapped up the build of our forever home! I’ll go into detail of that journey here, sharing the process from designing floor plans and choosing a contractor, to breaking ground and designing each space!

Blake and I are both from Quincy, IL, and QND R A I D E R S for Life. We also both attended Illinois State University and, after graduating, got our first big kid jobs in Normal, IL, where we bought our first home together! It was completely run down and {to be honest} disgusting. BUT I was obsessed with it and saw the good bones it had under all that mess! It just needed a little TLC. Blake, however, was not so easily convinced. Thankfully, the best property builder on the planet and my go to home inspector just so happens to be my uncle. He convinced Blake what diamond in the rough hand on our hands and we snatched it up! {thanks, Bill. You rock}

A whole lot of sweat equity and help from our amazing family and friends {mixed with some patience} and we had ourselves a beautiful new home! It was quite a project, but totally worth it in the end.

So, we have a little experience going through crazy projects together {where we learned we will, in fact, not kill each other… huge win}. I think the renovation helped us a bit during our home build but, after experiencing it, I’m not convinced you can ever be truly prepared for such an undertaking!

Any who.. designing pretty spaces is one of my favorite ways to spend time, so I’d love to help you with yours! Got an idea of what you want but don’t know how to make it come to life? Send it my way and let me help you make your house, your HOME.

xoxo, Shelbi