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How to Build a Faux Range Hood With Storage
I transformed my kitchen by adding a FUNCTIONING faux range hood!
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Using Curb Appeal to Update Our Big Beautiful Brick Home
The second I pulled up to our home I thought this is not the house for me! One-story. I wanted two. Brick. I hated brick. There was no curb appeal for me! When I took a second look there were some things I loved. The tree-lined driveway gave lots of privacy. I always wanted a side entry garage. A large front porch with beautiful large steps to decorate with pumpkins in the fall. I caught myself dreaming before we even walked inside. What this house could be. Keyword – COULD. However, the exterior needed work. One of the shutters had fallen off. There was no landscaping with the exception of…
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Upgrading Carpeted Stairs to Beautiful Wood Part 2
Hello again! A few days ago, I showed the prep work that went into making my mom’s stairs from carpeted to beautiful wood! You can see those steps here.*Pun intended* I left off with the stairs sanded and prepped, and my chair rail up. We Begin Again The next step was to stain the stair treads. Once they were stained, I added 3 coats of poly following the dry time instructions listed on the can. The next day I installed the baseboards and used wood putty to cover the nail holes. If you look carefully at the photos above you can see I was sloppy with the stain. This is…
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Upgrading Carpeted Stairs to Beautiful Wood Part 1
So I’m back at my mom’s house! If you didn’t get the chance to see the other work I’ve done here feel free to check it out now! I upgraded her builder-grade wire pantry shelves to wooden ones! And I madeover her small laundry closet to make it more functional and more beautiful! When my mom built her house, the standard was carpet on the 2nd floor, stairs, and living room. She chose to upgrade her entire first floor to engineered hardwoods but kept the carpet on the stairs and 2nd floor opting for better padding and stainmaster protection instead. Fast-forward 4 years, 2 dogs, and lots of clay later…
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How We Made a Big Impact in a Small Laundry Closet
One of my favorite things to do is to makeover spaces in other people’s homes! Check out my mom’s stair renovation here! Or her pantry renovation here! One of the spaces my mom was struggling with was her small laundry closet. She struggled with making a small space beautiful and functional! Here is the space we started with Disclaimer: In order to continually bring you the best DIYs I can, I get commissions for purchases made through links in this post at no cost to you! Thanks for being here supporting Big Brick Beauty! It functioned well enough but definitely didn’t make ya want to do laundry. Simple yellow paint…
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How To DIY an Indoor Kids Playhouse Cheap
Our girls(mainly our 5 year old) has been begging for a playhouse for a long time! So we decided this Christmas was the year! We set out to find the perfect kids playhouse! I wanted something cute and farmhousey that’d be girly but also match our home! We planned on putting this house in our FRONT yard because we have 4 dogs, 8 chickens, and a pot-belly pig that use our backyard to roam daily. Because it’d be in front of our house it was important to me that it would have curb appeal! Choosing a Kids Playhouse If you are looking for the perfect kids playhouse think about the…
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One Year in and We’re Not Stopping
We are finally here. This is a post that I have been looking forward to for a very very long time! We have OFFICALLY been in our home for 1 whole year! We moved into this house just 5 short days before Christmas with no time to decorate. I could not wait to decorate for Christmas this year! Over the past year we have accomplished so much. I am so proud of all of the progress we have made. This house is feeling more and more like a home with each project completion. So without further ado, I give you a side by side comparison of what our house looks…
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WANTED: New Fireplace Facade And Hearth
We finally did it, y’all! And I am OBSESSED! Our fireplace got a face lift! It’s not quite done yet, but I’m too excited not to share! When we first bought our home, I loved that it already had a fireplace but hated how it looked! I thought we needed an all new fireplace facade and hearth. Check it out. Disclaimer: In order to continually bring you the best DIYs I can, I get commissions for purchases made through links in this post at no cost to you! Thanks for being here supporting Big Brick Beauty! Ew. Simple. Plain. No character. Wires hanging down. Just not my style, I wanted…
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Basement Wall Demo Part 3
Here we are! Back at it again! We finally finished removing the 2 main non-loadbearing walls! If you missed the first 2 installments you can check Part 1 out here and Part 2 out here. We started with main area that lead to 2 closets and a bedroom. We removed the walls to get rid of the 3 separate spaces to create 1 large open entertaining space. Check it out below! So much better! It’s one long open entertaining space that will soon house a pool table, bar, and table. Behind the wall to the right, this is the load-bearing wall that will be removed, will be our couch and…
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Laundry Room Reno
I finally tackled our laundry room!! This room has given me grief since we moved in. I’ve always wanted a huge pinterest worthy laundry room! I had crazy dreams that included a large mudroom space and doggy shower. And when we moved into this home I knew I was not going to attain those dreams here. But that didnt meant I couldnt dress up the space that I DID have! So this is what we began with. Cream walls. White cabinets. White porcelain pulls. Door that opens inward. Popcorn ceiling. Linoleum floors. And this wonderful little pop out that has the ac intake on the otherside(aka not removable!) My first…
