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Simple Dining Room Improvements
How to Update Dining Room on a Budget A little paint and some molding goes a long way in updating a small-looking dining room! One of my goals for 2019 is to invite people over to our house for dinner. I love cooking. I love feeding people, especially people I don’t have to beg and bribe into eating like 2 certain toddlers who are frequent diners at my house…And I love having friendships we can nurture. And where do meals and dining take place? The dining room, of course! But since I’ve already shared several updates we’ve made to our dining room over the years (like adding trim to a…
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Quick Ways to Update Front Door
How to Update Front Door without Paint Nothing makes you think about the status of your front door like the holidays! Even if your family rarely uses it, it seems the front door gets a lot of action with holidays guests (and packages) coming and going. So I came up with a few ways to update your front door without painting it, which can be a full-day project if you include drying time! And who has time for that this time of year?!
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Easy Way to Label Bathroom Drawers
How to Add Stylish Labels to Organize Your Vanity A few months ago I made a few small changes to our small bathroom. (You can watch that video here.) One of the things I did was update the drawer pulls to help them match our new towel bar and just to give the bathroom a fresh look. Then ImpressArt* reached out to me and challenged me to incorporate some metal stamping into our bathroom. Challenge accepted! I decided it was the perfect opportunity to help (slowly) teach our toddlers about personal property and that not everything is theirs! AKA, I labeled my drawers, so they know what they shouldn’t touch!…
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DIY Fabric Window Valance
How To Make A Fabric Valance for A Window Lately I’ve shared a few decorative interior projects like a trash can cabinet and dining tabletop makeover, so I thought sharing this old project I’ve never shared before would be timely! Creating a simple fabric-covered valance to go over a window is an easy way to add warmth and style to any space! Materials
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How Not to Refinish Your Dining Table
How I Refinished Our Dining Table: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly I’ll warn you. This doesn’t end the way I wanted, but I think it’s a story and how-to worth sharing. Learn from my mistakes. How It Began It all started innocently enough. I love the look of naturally-stained dining tables with painted legs. And since our painted dining table top was looking a little rough, I thought I’d give it a go! We started by painstakingly sanding ALL of the paint off. (*Spoiler-Much to my husband’s chagrin, this would prove fruitless in the end.) Once the paint was removed, the tabletop was still darker than I wanted.
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DIY Gates for Deck Stairs
How to Build Gates for a Wood Deck If you have little ones roaming around, you know the feeling when you see them head towards the stairs! For inside stairs you can buy a pre-made gate in a color that suits your house. But what do you do about outdoor stairs like those on a deck? You build some yourself! Materials I took this picture with every intention of building these gates with some leftover wood I had on hand, but that changed half way through the project. (And yes, my old, blue Ryobi saw is still going strong!)
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Kitchen Update Under $1000
How to Update Old Cabinets & Counters Under $1000 No that photo is not photoshopped! The cabinets really were that orange before we got started. And yes! You don’t have to remove walls, replace cabinets or install top-of-the-line granite to update the look of an older kitchen. OK, you may want to! But these few steps can give you a great-looking kitchen without much of a monetary investment because sometimes dreams don’t equal reality.?Do one, do all! Either way it will make a difference you will appreciate for years to come!
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Budget Living Room Makeover Ideas
4 Ways to Update Your Living Room on a Budget One of my most favorite things about updating my home or any house is that often the simplest or least-expensive things can make the biggest difference in the look and feel of the space. And that rings true in the case of this living and dining room Dad and I updated on a recent episode of Today’s Homeowner, which you can watch online now. Here’s what the living room looked like before: And here’s the dining room: We basically did 4 things that you can do to update just about any room in your house-living room, dining room, bedroom, or…
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DIY Pegboard Hanging Bins
These custom DIY pegboard bins are perfect for hanging scissors, rulers, pens, pencils or markers! With the recent completion of my pegboard makeover, I thought I’d give you a little more detail on the bins I built. So you can make them for your pegboard too! The finished inside dimensions of this bin are 2.5 x 2 inches. So all subsequent measurements are based on this size bin. Hit me up in the comments if you have any questions!
