Welcome to Allie Makes Home

I'm Allie and I am a home maker. Literally. I mean, I do some of the usual homemaker things: fold laundry while watching the newest show on Hulu, clean the bathrooms whenever I can't stand looking at them anymore, plan meals and get groceries delivered (which is the best btw), teach my kids to do chores when I remember, and the big one - taxi drive my kids everywhere they need to go. But the part of "home making" that gets me excited is the actual MAKING.

I have not only picked out all the furniture in our home, but I've also BUILT much of the furniture in our home. I've painted all the walls, added custom shelving where it's been needed, created my own wallpaper out of book pages, painted Legos on the walls brick by brick, reused old cabinetry to make something new, caulked everything in sight, hung track curtains to create a room we didn't have, added LED lights in strips to the walls, installed old high school lockers in lieu of a mudroom... I could go on and on.

This is where my passion is. The traditional homemaking things are what keeps my family alive. And I do those, just to keep us alive. But whatever time I can steal I spend improving our home and making it feel how we want it to feel, and function how we need it to function.

Stick around to see what's around the corner. I kind of just make this up as I go and learn new things when I have to. I'll share anything helpful I can and teach you my design process. I would love to give you some inspiration, whether that's getting you to start DIYing as well, or just giving you ideas of what you'd like someone else to do in your home. Thanks for being here!