Best of 2017 and What's to Come

I’ve rounded up my best of 2017 – all the top posts from the year and a hint at what’s to come in 2018!

Hello and Happy New Year! I hope you are having a wonderful holiday break. My husband and I always like to sit and reflect on the past year around this time. Twenty-seventeen was a year of ups and downs, my bestie moved away and then my dog of 16 1/2 years left us, but honestly all in all it was a good year. We welcomed our newest pup, who we are in love with and everybody is happy, healthy and thriving. We spent the summer traveling around and visiting friends all over the country, which was fantastic. In addition to all that, we got tons of work done around the house. Here is the best of 2017 from Uncookie Cutter!

If I had to pick the biggest project of the year, it would probably be our Courtyard Makeover. With the exception of installing the new post lights, we did this entirely by ourselves and have all the details in the final reveal post.

One of my favorite projects, before we cut a huge hole in this wall, was my album cover art.

I added some floating shelves to our home bar so that we could store some glasses here.

I also wrote about a couple of project that added to my husbands home office. The faux live edge wood shelves and the Yankee’s file cabinet were big hits!

And speaking of furniture makeovers, I redid these Rocking chairs in the ever popular Ombre style.

I also made another concrete table for some friends, and wrote about the changes I made from my original table in our house.

When football season hit, I wrote this article, which isn’t really about home decor, but explains why we made the move to a college town. It ended up being a huge hit!

The summer we traveled so much and got started on what will be the biggest renovation ever – the kitchen! We completed phase one and can’t wait to get started on phase two.

I finished the year with this fun little Santa sign that I made as part of our 12 days of Christmas challenge.

I’m so excited to get going with 2018! The main things I plan to accomplish this year are the den, phase two of the kitchen and some fun outdoor projects. Hopefully I can also get around to the dining room upgrade and garage makeover. But, considering how slow I am, that’s a reach :).

Happy Happy New Year!!! Bring on twenty-eighteen!

April