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Where Will Our Guests Sleep!?
We finally took on the task of renovating the basement! And with company coming in one week we needed a guest room in a hurry. Thank you 2 day delivery!! We ordered a queen sized bed off wayfair and set it up! Next, we got the mattress in from Walmart. Then we were gifted this cute dresser and a sewing cabinet from some AMAZING friends! I decided she needed a coat of black chalk paint and some new drawer pulls. We placed the dresser cady corner and used the sewing cabinet as a nightstand. Then added some decorative touches. I placed some extra towels in a basket on top of…
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Front Door Makeover
Recently, we painted the front of our brick house white. You can check out how that went here. **Spoiler Alert** It went amazing! I am so in love! However there is one part that I’m not as in love with. The porch. It all just blends. The white house, with the white columns, and the white door was just too much for me and I needed something to visually break up the white. So I focused on what would be the most dramatic, budget friendly option: the front door. So here it is. Our front door in all its dated glory. The white and gold combination was just not visually…
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Painting Our Brick House Part 2
We’ve continued painting the exterior of our home and it has definitely been an adventure. It’s been just over 2 months since we painted the front and everytime we had plans to continue something would come up or we’d get a weekend of nonstop rain. So this weekend, armed with a forecast of low humidity, low temperatures, and clear skys we tackled the next large wall! This is the next largest exterior wall, it is a full 2 story wall with the door to the basement. It took a day for my husband to paint the wall top to bottom with our Wagner Flexio paint sprayer. I totally dropped the…
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We built a pig house!
We built a pig pen for our pot-belly pig! This was a fast easy DIY that took a little bit of lumber and a pvc roof!
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Basement Wall Demo Part 2
We’ve made some more progress on the basement wall demo! This is the wall we had our sights set on next. We grabbed the hammer and started swinging away and before we knew it this is what we were left with! Slowly but surely we are getting there! The next big task for this room? Clean up. Once we get all the debris out of the room the non-load bearing walls can come down. Then we will have to get a contractor to come out and install an LVL beam for the wall that is bearing the load! Stay tuned for more basement progress and some other projects as well!
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Basement Wall Demo
Yesterday, I posted the ceiling progress we made on the basement! And today I’d like to show you how far we got on the walls in just 1 short day working only at nap time! If you want to see the basement before photos click here! And here she is in all her messy beauty! I am so happy with the progress and can not wait till the whole wall is gone and we have the open floor plan basement weve been looking for!
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Basement Ceiling Demo
It has officially begun! Today was Day 1 of basement ceiling demolition and I must say in pretty pleased with the progress! This is where our basement started! We began removing the panels and here is how far we got during nap time. Just by removing the ugly office panels we gained about a foot in ceiling space(except for the duct work) and even found an additional air vent that was apparently blowing air into the ceiling! We’ve got some really cool plans for the space but we can’t reveal them just yet! Stay tuned!
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Mirror Makeover
Yesterday I posted about the adhesive removal on an old mirror frame we had lying around and today I finally finished painting the frame hung it up in our guest room! If you remember this is what I started with. I removed the flowers and moss sheet and was left with this After removing the sicky adhesive I was ready to paint! I covered the mirror with 3m tape and brown paper. I gave it 3 coats of eclipse milk paint and heres the final result! I am so happy with how this turned out! It was the perfect FREE peice to finish up our guest room! I love working…
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Adhesive Removal
Pre-adhesive backed decor items can be a game changer for the do-it-yourselfer. We had this mirror that sat in the garage for months. We weren’t kind to her and when I finally decided I wanted to hang it in the nursery I noticed a few dings on the top of the frame! So instead of repairing and painting it, I decided I was gonna make it girly and cute while covering those ugly scuffs. I used adhesive backed moss and hot glued flowers to the top of it! It made a super cute girly frame for a mirror that never got hung! Super cute right?! Well just over a year…
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Popcorn No More
Popcorn ceilings. I loathe them. They create horrendous dark shadows and make rooms feel so dark and dingy and old! I made it my personal mission to hand scrape, sand, and paint our popcorn ceilings. So how’s it going you may wonder? Take a look! So far I under took the hallway that leads to the girls bedrooms and the area in front of the coat closet. I also did the hallway in front of the laundry room and most recently tackled my biggest room yet, the kitchen! Was it worth it? 100% yes. Is this labor intensive? 100% yes. I will not sugar coat the process. It is messy…
