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A Tastier (and more Sustainable) Daily Routine with Café 504 Coffee
Full disclosure friends – I didn’t start drinking coffee until I was in my 30s! Only when we bought our first Keurig did that change and I started to get in the habit of enjoying a daily cup (or two). Lately though, I’ve been taking a hard look at the amount of waste we as a family have been producing (especially in the kitchen) and began to explore how we could change our routines to a more sustainable lifestyle – starting with ditching that pile of daily KCups in lieu of good-old fashioned ground coffee. Enter the team from Café 504, a small coffee roasting company out of Texas, and their…
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Celebrate my Birthday with a Stunning New Wood Watch!
This past weekend I celebrated my 38th (!!!) birthday so I decided to do something very adult indeed and pick up a gorgeous new watch from JORD – an American company designing timeless watches, Apple watch bands, and accessories out of wood and largely re-claimed natural material. And now all of my readers can join the celebration too by entering to win $100 TOWARDS ANY JORD WATCH during my birthday month! This post is sponsored by JORD Watches but all reviews and opinions are my own. I’ve been looking forward to getting my hands on one of these beautiful pieces for a while because what better accessory than a…
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July Round Up
The summer keeps speeding along way to fast, but doesn’t that always seem like it’s the case these days? I was hoping to be able to share the playroom makeover with you but fell quite a bit behind on that project – hopefully I can get it back on track over the next few months though. I did manage to finally finish my kitchen makeover so if you missed that update make sure you check out the post below How to Make a Builder Grade Kitchen look Custom Throwing a Birthday Party with the Art Nook We ended the month with a celebration – this time for…
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How to Make a Builder Grade Kitchen look Custom
I feel like I’ve been teasing this post for months and so I’m excited that FINALLY have had a chance to share it! Way back in February, I started giving the upper half of my kitchen a little makeover that I have been planning pretty much since we moved in to make my builder grade cabinets look much more custom. Along the way I ended up making a few small changes that I hadn’t originally planned on, but they all have taken this kitchen in a direction that feels more cohesive with the rest of the house than some of my earlier design decisions. So before we jump…
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June Round Up
We had a lot to celebrate in the last few weeks of June – the end of 1st grade for Blake, the end of pre-school for my little GOB, and the 10 year anniversary of me and my husband. It was the perfect way to wrap up the spring and jump into the lazy days of summer. Unfortunately we had one not so celebratory moment when one of our puppies decided to swallow part of his toy and had to get emergency surgery to get it removed (note to dog owners: watch out for those rope toys!) but I’m happy to say he’s back to his normal goofy self. With…
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Installing Built Ins in a Newly Finished Basement
Earlier this year, before the One Room Challenge consumed my life, I wrapped up one of my biggest customer projects to date – helping to finish a basement by installing a custom set of built-ins. I’m extremely proud of how this came together and excited to finally share the reveal of this beautiful space! The homeowners had taken on finishing most of the basement themselves (impressive right!!) but asked me to help build a set of bookcases to flank either side of a stacked-stone wall that would house the TV. We wanted to maximize the closed storage space, while incorporating some open shelving underneath for electronics and still…
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May Round Up
This week we are celebrating 5 years in our home! I can’t believe how far both the house and our family has come since we moved in. I have such fond memories of the early days when it was just us on our block and my oldest son used to spend hours playing in the mud pits while we watched our neighborhood slowly get built. If you want to see how things have changed around here make sure you check out my Home Tour Page for lots of Before/Afters! 52 Week CIO Challenge I’m happy to report that even during the craziness of the One Room Challenge I didn’t let…
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How to Create a Plaid Feature Wall
I don’t write a lot of in depth tutorials, but there were a lot of asks for a break down of how I created the plaid feature wall in my entry, and as always I am here to help. To make things easier I tried to name some of the parts of the project I refer to over and over again, and you will find them in CAPS throughout. In this project, the installation is relatively easy, but the planning is more involved. I tried to break things down as best I could and included some (hopefully) helpful diagrams to illustrate things further as well as some progress pics so…
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My Favorite One Room Challenge Design Trends
Since my tired legs sorely needed a rest this weekend, I was able to go through all of my fellow One Room Challenge guest participants final reveals and all I can say is WOW!! I’ve said it before but the support from this community is the main reason I put myself through this crazy 6 weeks each year, but a close second is the incredible wealth of talent, inspiration, and DIY ideas this group provides! As I going through everyone’s finished spaces, I started to notice a few trends that kept popping up – so I thought it would be great to share not just my favorite reveals but also…
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One Room Challenge Week 6 – The Foyer / Staircase / Loft FINAL REVEAL
And just like that we’ve reached the end my friends – six weeks of late nights, early mornings, and constant trips to the hardware store and my One Room Challenge spaces are done. At the end of Week 4 I was incredibly worried that I wasn’t going to make it, but something magical always seems to happen in that final push and it all comes together. I want to thank you all for joining me on this journey – both here on the blog but also through my other social media channels. I have said it before but it bears repeating – your interest in this project and support along…
