Tag: home
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Goodbye Summer: Inviting Autumn into your Home
Autumn is here. As much as we like to try and cling on to summer for as long as possible, it can’t last forever. Inevitably the leaves start to fall from the trees, the night’s draw in, and the temperature drops. While we may be mourning for hot summer days and long summer nights, autumn…
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Easy Ways to Give Your Kitchen a Fresh Glow
A kitchen is the heart of any home, and it deserves to feel comfortable, fresh, and luxurious. Your kitchen will take a lot of wear and tear, so it’s important to touch up a few things as you go to keep it looking fresh and new. Want to know how to give it that homely…
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Making A Cozy and Useful Guest Room
My guest room is finished! When planning this room, I really wanted to create a unique and luxurious space for my guests. I started with the design for the headboard {tutorial here}. To feature the headboard, I knew I could do that by creating a feature wall behind it. I love working with trim boards…
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Painting Your Tile Floor
Guys! I painted my tile floor! And I’m giving away $50 to Cutting Edge Stencils to one lucky reader over on my IG so go here to enter. I am in the middle of making over my master bathroom and doing so on a budget. We have a few other projects we hope to finish…
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How to Paint a Metal File Cabinet
When finding pieces of furniture for our newly modified “family office” I wanted to make sure that we were using the space efficiently. It’s a small room on our main floor so there isn’t a lot of room for things. We decided to use my craft room table as the desk so that it would…
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DIY Blueprint Wall Hanging
I have been wanting to make a wall hanging like this since I saw my sister make one for her dining room. I just needed the right place to hang it. When I recently made over our family office I knew that would be the perfect spot. The first thing I did was order a…
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Installing An Above Mount Farmhouse Sink
For Mother’s Day, my husband bought me this farmhouse sink and faucet. Okay.. well, he may have gotten the idea from me 😉 I have been looking for a farmhouse sink that will fit with my existing granite countertops. A lot of farmhouse sinks are under mount and this would have been tough to retrofit…
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Lean for 2016: Laundry Room
I love laundry rooms. In our last house, our laundry was in the unfinished side of our basement. So it was not a place I would want to spend a lot of time. There were spider webs and it wasn’t that bright. So I always took my laundry somewhere else to fold and sort. Now,…
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Toddler Girls Room Reveal
When we moved in to our new home, I let the kids help design their rooms… I had some ideas but we worked together to create a design they would like. I wanted to use Elly’s old dresser but she got a new bed and other new furniture. She liked the color of her old…