Category: Featured
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Transforming the Front Yard from an 80’s Office Park to an English Cottage Inspired Garden
When we first bought our current house, we were very aware that it was in need of some serious updating – the entire thing screamed bachelor pad circa 1985. If you like towering, monochromatic structures with the welcoming appeal of an office park, you’d feel right at home. The rest of us (just me?) spent…
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Decorating the Nursery
I’ve had to slow down lots these last few months, and while that’s for the best even when I’m not pregnant, it’s been an anxiety-riddled ride for this overachiever. One silver lining, however – it’s been a good reminder that home doesn’t happen overnight and that well-loved, intentional, soul filled spaces can’t be created in…
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The Salmon House
Why did I name it the Salmon House? Easy – the tenant had a penchant for painting EVERYTHING salmon. I’m talking the walls. The ceiling. The baseboards. The vanity. The towel bars. The toilet. YES. EVEN PART OF THE TOILET. I can’t tell if they were just a messy painter or a secret art prodigy…
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Nursery Wall Treatment Reveal
It’s sophisticated, clean, and leaves just enough play for whimsical items to be introduced. Best of all, it’s something that can age well with our daughter as she grows, although who knows how long we’ll be in this house! Plus, the wall treatment can be easily painted if our daughter ends up disliking pink once…
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The Jack and Jill Bath Drama…Part 2
When we first decided to bump this bathroom renovation up the priority list, we knew it was going to be a tight budget, so we wanted to cut costs wherever we could. Reusing the existing vanity and mirror seemed like an easy way to do that. Plus who doesn’t love a good reduce, reuse, recycle…
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Catching Up on the Last Two Months
I’m a little behind, but I’m finally sitting down to catch up on cataloging the projects we’ve done to the house now that we’ve lived here for two months. Two whole months, can you believe it??
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We Bought a House!
I know, I know. You’re probably sitting there thinking, “Uh, yeah. You guys buy, like, a lot of houses. What’s so special about this one?” Answer: it’s just for us!
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Behind the Scenes of Our Live-In Flip: Kitchen Edition
I’ve been working a bit day by day on the Salmon House, but nothing is completed enough to share yet. So in the meantime, here’s another behind the scenes glimpse into the process for revamping what was once a tiny, dated, and very impractical kitchen in the townhome we currently call home!
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Behind the Scenes of Our Live-In Flip: Bedrooms Edition
Work on our current flip, also known as the Salmon House, has slowed to a crawl as of late, in part due to COVID and in part because we’ve been saving up to buy our next big project (more to come on that later). In the meantime, I thought it would be fun to walk…
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Shelving to Get You Out of a Rut
I always used to turn to DIY when I was feeling down, and I don’t know how I forgot that, considering my entire line of work now is one form of do-it-yourself project or another. Maybe that’s why. Maybe I lost the joy of creating in the monotony of the mundane. This week I gave…
THE DIY-ED HOME 