Here are the top ten most amazing products we have used so far that I had to share! Click the pictures below to check out the following products on Amazon!
- Minwax polycrylic. We used this to paint our tables and chairs that had chippy paint. You put a light layer of polycrylic on pieces that have chippy paint, and they do not chip. This WORKS! I love this product.
2. Rust-Oleum, I used this flat black product on our banister. The key to this process is sanding first and then painting this rustoleum on top. This paint is really watery, so we had to tape off our wooden staircase, but it worked wonderfully and made our banister look good as new.
3. I LOVE this label maker. I started to label all of my baking goods and then I scavenged the house to see what else I could label. This comes with black and red labeling tape. This is the best!
4. Google WiFi-This was highly recommended by a co-worker of Grants. This product connects to your existing wifi package and serves as a router replacement, so it can allow the wifi signal to carry throughout your whole house. We did get to see what our wifi was like before hooking these up, and the signal did not carry through our entire house. Now, we get wifi everywhere! Without it, we would have only gotten wifi on our first floor, and our outdoor nest cameras would not have been functional.
5. Outdoor Nest Cameras-BEST purchase ever. Okay, so here’s the deal. I may have watched one too many Making a Murderer series, which seriously may haunt me forever. I love murder mysteries but then I become so terrified to be in my own house I can barely shower without checking to make sure someone isn’t plotting my murder. After Grant debating if we really needed these, and me convincing him that this is the only way I will stay sane if he is gone, we religiously researched what the best product out there would be. We almost bought Arlo cameras (wireless) but several reviews said they had to change the batteries quite often and getting up on a ladder every couple of weeks, didn’t sound sane. So, we hired an electrician, had him install four cameras and BOOM, I am fearless. These bring so much peace to my mind! You receive notifications if a person is spotted or if there is activity and then you can speak through each of the cameras, which is amazing. You can control and view everything through the nest app. We also have a nest thermostat and baby monitor, so we love having everything in one, functional app!
6. With helpful tips from the painter that painted our family room, we painted all of the doors in our house. We used this roller and then smoothed it out with a paintbrush in needed spots. We did other doors first without using these mini rollers, and the doors took twice as long. This is my favorite mini roller by far!
7. Painter cups- BUY THESE. If you paint furniture casually, or have big house projects going on, you will want these either way. There is a magnetic strip on the inside of the jar and if you need to set your paintbrush down, or touch something up, the paintbrush attaches to the magnetic piece. We started off with one of these and ended up buying three more.
8. Wooster shortcut paintbrush-Thanks to my Aunt Madeline we discovered this amazing little brush. This not only saves your hands from painter cramps, but it allows you to get in all the tough to reach spaces.
9. Simplisafe security system-Ya. Maybe it was overkill but what can I say? Now I am for sure safe. FOR LIFE. We bought this Simplisafe system because this was one of the few systems you could purchase but didn’t have to pay for a daily package. Since we chose to do it without a package, we can still arm/disarm our house, but the system will not contact police. This comes with a motion sensor, door alarms, etc. and I can still set it when Grant is gone and then he can disarm it when he gets home.
10. Dark Chocolate Oreos. You’ll thank me later.
