I started calling them chapters because “projects” never felt quite right.
These whimsical home projects are the pieces of the world I’m building around me—rooms transformed, gardens grown, things made by hand, and ideas that probably should have remained ideas but absolutely did not.
Some chapters take a weekend. Some take an entire season. Some apparently require power tools. And somewhere between the paint, plants, books, questionable decisions, and things I definitely learned how to build five minutes before building them, they become part of the story.
None of them are finished.
Whimsical Home Projects, One Chapter at a Time
CHAPTER 1: The Witch’s Sitting Room
This didn’t start as a room at all.
It was a porch—a roof, a cement foundation, and an idea I couldn’t stop thinking about.
We built the floors. We built the walls. And somewhere along the way, what had once been an outdoor space started becoming something entirely new.
The windows changed everything. Suddenly the room was flooded with light and surrounded by green, and I could finally see the space I’d been imagining.
I’m transforming it again—this time into something darker, cozier, stranger, and much more me.
The Witch’s Sitting Room is still being written in the book of whimsical home projects.
- During the build. Added floors and walls. The windows were the perfect choice!
- After we added the built in bookshelves and fireplace.
Somewhere between the bare studs and the bookshelves,
it stopped being a porch. It started to feel much more like me.It became mine.
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Chapter 2: The Moon Garden
What started as a moss filled yard is slowly becoming something a lot more enchanted. Here is chapter two of whimsical home projects.
I didn’t set out to build a Moon Garden.
Once I added raised beds, vegetables, a pond, and the general belief that there is always room for one more plant, it started to look more like what I envisioned. Cutting the grass is a twice a year occurrence here, as we like to feed the native pollinators- which only adds to whimsical vibes. Next came the pergola. I’m growing grapes, and every grapevine NEEDS a pergola, obviously.
And then, as tends to happen around here, things escalated even more, somehow. Don’t look at me!
Where the magick started creeping in
The house came first. I painted the brick dark, built simple wooden shutters, and added the moons and stars by hand.
It was probably inevitable that the garden would eventually follow.
The pond dig was a whole pain in the ass, I won’t lie. It was dug by hand with a shovel, and rocks were gathered from a dry creekbed near my home. It was a labor of love that now houses all types of native critters and plants.
And then I built a giant moon
The bare trampoline frame that I spray painted before wrapping it in grape vines. The frame became a crescent-shaped gate wrapped in twisting branches, with the garden and little dark house framed through the center.
I wanted an entrance to the garden that felt like crossing into somewhere else.
Buying one would have been far too reasonable.
So I built one.
I used my kids’ old 12′ trampoline frame, buried it in the ground using rebar and cement, and made sure it wasn’t going to fall over. (I did stake it to the ground on each side, don’t worry!)
This is one of those whimsical home projects that I am forever grateful for.
Still Growing
I’m trying to make it feel like stepping into a story.
The Moon Garden isn’t finished.
There are paths to fix, plants to move, vines to grow, flowers to add, and approximately seventeen ideas I haven’t talked myself out of yet.
I’m planting it slowly—with things that glow in the evening, bloom in pale colors, attract moths and pollinators, smell incredible after dark, or simply look like they belong in a witch’s garden.
I’m not trying to make it perfect.
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Chapter 3 is still being written.
I have a bedroom wall, too many books, and an idea involving arches. Stay tuned for even more whimsical home projects.
Coming soon.