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One Room Challenge Week 5 – Faux Fireplace DIY and the Final Details
It’s the final stretch of the One Room Challenge and I am very happy to report that for the first time in weeks I feel like I’m going to finish everything I need to on time. Everything is installed so now it’s down to paint touch ups, a little more caulking, and then I can finally move everything out of my bedroom and back where it belongs. If you missed any of my One Room Challenge posts you can catch up on my previous weeks here – Week One | Week Two | Week Three | Week Four This week my focus was on creating a faux fireplace in…
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One Room Challenge Week 4 – Making Furniture Decisions
So let me start off by saying I’m in full on crunch mode here guys! This is gonna be a photo finish to get everything done but I’m pressing forward and trying to knock all of the big items off of my list. That way if I have to I can put in a whole week of late nights to finish the small details. My husband actually asked me this week if I cloned myself without him knowing, which I’m gonna take as a compliment that crunch time or not I’m making progress. If you missed any of my One Room Challenge posts you can catch up on my previous…
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One Room Challenge Week 3 – Wallpaper, Trim, and my DIY Coffered Ceiling
We are at the One Room Challenge halfway point friends! I’m trying not to panic too much, but I gotta be honest and say that I’m feeling some serious pressure when I look at the items still left on the to-do list. For now, though, let’s concentrate on the progress that has been made and how excited I am to finally start sharing it with all of you. First up – let’s just talk about the new love of my life, this wallpaper!! My amazing dad helped me out big time since we first had to apply a horizontal lining paper to the walls before we could even tackle this…
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One Room Challenge Week 2 – The Front Room/Dining Room Inspiration and Plan
Happy One Room Challenge Week 2 everyone! First, if anyone tried to leave me a comment last week and got an error message I AM VERY SORRY! We’ve been working on some website updates that blocked commenting, but everything should be fixed for this week…thank you husband! If you missed last week, you can check out all of the before pics of my front room and dining room in my Week One post. Second off, even though I just spent a crazy weekend working on my space I’m going to hold off sharing any major progress pics with you guys until next week when things look a little more put…
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March Round Up
Decorating Easter Cookies with Kids My nieces unexpectedly slept over the other evening, so I planned for one of my favorite things to do with them – decorate cookies. I’m not gonna lie, trying to manage 4 kids and a potentially messy situation can get a bit crazy! But over time I’ve put together a few tricks to make the experience enjoyable for everyone. Make sure that each kid has their own space – I set everyone up at my island and give the two little ones stools so they can reach. Each kid gets their own plate and their own set of cookies. I also keep my boys…
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One Room Challenge Week 1 – Taking on my Front Room / Dining Room
Here we go again friends – it’s time for the Spring One Room Challenge!!! This is my second time participating (for my first challenge I made over my guest room and you can check out the final reveal here) and I am possibly more excited this time around. The lessons I learned last fall about both blogging and designing were invaluable in helping me take this little page of mine to a new level. For anyone new to this event, the One Room Challenge is an amazing opportunity for home bloggers hosted by Linda at Calling it Home in partnership with House Beautiful and the Home Love Network. During the…
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My Rustic Easter Table
Confession time everyone – as much as I like decorating, I have never been great at putting together a tablescape. Whenever I host a big dinner or party, I always put a lot of time into planning and preparing the menu, but run out of time or energy before I ever get something cute on the table. But this year, after a combination of Instagram inspiration and winter boredom, I decided to challenge myself! We eat Easter dinner at my mom’s house each year, but I’ve been trying to make sure that for every holiday we have some sort of meal at home so I will be cooking Saturday…
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February Round Up
Antique Shopping February brings about one of my favorite yearly traditions – antique shopping with my husband. The first year we moved into this house he suggested that we take the afternoon of Valentine’s day and go visit the antique store that’s around the corner from our house (and YES – it is both awesome and dangerous to have a huge antique store right around the corner from your house!). We’ve gone every year since and every year I pick up a few special things. This year I grabbed some absolutely beautiful pieces for the upcoming front room/dining room makeover. These two botanical prints were honestly just screaming for me…
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Ideas for adding Unique Art to your House – the Moderate Time or Money Edition
So I think I promised to share the second part in this series weeks ago – so my bad, totally over-promised on that one! But since better is never late than never here is Round 2 of ideas for adding unique artwork to your home, the Moderately Time Consuming or Expense edition. Some of these ideas take a little bit more time or DIY skill and some take a little bit more money then those I included in my “Cheap and Easy” series, but none of them take both. The first few ideas I list involve creating your own Art – and before you roll your eyes at me and…
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January Round Up
A Quick Entryway Update With the temperatures outside still pretty frigid I’ve been using the winter to knock some smaller projects off my list, starting with some quick updates to my entryway and hallway. First off, for those wondering the door color is Sherwin Williams Sensible Hue. If anyone if thinking of painting the back of their door but doesn’t want anything too colorful I recommend going two shades darker than your wall color. You will get a high contrast but in a more subtle way. We had changed out the boob light last year for this beautiful glass and wood pendant I found at HomeGoods, and…
