Tag: DIY
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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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Jack and Jill Bath Drama… Part 1
I’m sitting here with my trusty cup of tea and wishing it was something stronger, because it feels like this bathroom is going to be the death of me. Let’s be honest: as far as renovations go, this bathroom really hasn’t been that bad. Sure, the tiles were falling off the walls. Yes, the mold…
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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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Our Finished Live-In Flip
What better way to close out this chapter of our lives than to highlight our latest finished renovation? We started this one back in October of 2019 and moved in in December of 2019. I shared a decent amount of the process on Instagram, but I’ve been terrible about sharing the “after” portion of this…
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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…
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From Necessity to Passion: My DIY Journey
DIY definitely started as a necessity for me and my husband. When the Air Force moved us to a tiny base in a small town in the middle of nowhere called Enid, Oklahoma, we didn’t have much. A couch. Some second (or maybe even third) hand bedroom furniture. His parents’ old dining room table. My…
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