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How to Paint a Door to Look Like Wood
Changing the Color of our Fiberglass Door If you have a fiberglass door, you can paint it to look like stained wood with these few simple steps! And it only takes a couple of hours. Materials English Oak Base Coat* Honey Oak Finish Coat* quality paint brush* OR Giani Honey Oak kit*
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DIY Kid Height Keepsake
Quick Way to Track Kids’ Growth Each New Year Easy project to measure your children’s growth each year with this keepsake chart that can be tucked away when not in use! Growing up, my dad always insisted on marking my sisters’ and my height. We usually ended up doing it sometime around Christmas or New Years because it was an easy milestone to remember. We did it on the doorstop inside our hallway closet. Now, my parents are building a new house and planning to move sometime this year. So they’ll have to cut the doorstop out to take our growth chart with them! Since my husband and I don’t…
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How to Install a Garbage Disposal
Replace Your Own Leaking Disposer Changing out a leaking garbage disposal for a new one is an easy DIY job you can tackle in no time after watching this video! What You Need garbage disposer* screwdriver plumber’s putty* You’ll also need patience and a rag or towel! Working with your hands over your head, at least for me, requires a lot more patience because it makes you tire faster! Plus working in a tiny cabinet is frustrating, so again, patience! The towel is to protect your back while laying in the cabinet and/or to soak up any water that may drip after removing the old disposal! Disconnect The first step…
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Inexpensive Window Treatments
Warm up White Walls with Window Treatments If you don’t like how blah white walls can look, dress up them with wood-tone window treatments to warm up the whole room! Add Wood Tones I haven’t been loving our dining room lately. It feels so incomplete and blah! But after staring long enough, I realized it’s too white! Ha! We have one window in there which I love. But it has white curtains on white(ish) walls and white faux wood blinds.
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Cherry-Picked: Gifts for Neighbor, Hostess, Teacher
Quick Gifts for a Hostess, Neighbor, or Teacher Handheld Frother I shared my love for this $12 frother* in my Insta stories (click here to watch that highlight). But I thought I’d also share it here as a quick and easy gift idea! Pair it with a small bag of Christmas coffee and voila!
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DIY Split Brick Backsplash
Install a Brick Backsplash in One Day Watch the video above to see everything you need to know to add split brick tiles to the backsplash in your kitchen to warm up grey cabinets! Tools and Materials pre-split bricks* Titebond TiteGrab* construction adhesive caulk gun 1/4 inch tile spacers* angle grinder* or other tile-cutting saw diamond blade* grey grout* grout float* grout sponge* 2-foot level grout and tile sealer* You’ll also need a few other things like a tape measure, pencil, dust mask, and safety glasses, but hopefully you already have those around your house anyway! Layout Bricks and Measure With any tile project, it’s smart to layout your tiles,…
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How To Remove Latex Paint
Removing paint from your jeans All you need are 2 things you probably already have laying around your house to remove dried latex paint from your clothes! Materials rubbing alcohol* scrub brush* old toothbrush See, that’s it! I hate changing into clothes to do a project and prefer to wear whatever I already have on, so this is not my first pair of pants that have been ‘decorated’ with paint before! And most certainly won’t be the last, no matter how careful I am!
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DIY Live Edge Floating Shelves
How To Build Shelves with a Live Edge How to select boards, prep, seal and hang rough sewn wood for decorative shelves in a bathroom. Materials cedar boards 3 inch corner brackets* sander polyurethane* spray paint* (stain bronze) If you’ve never seen the episode from Today’s Homeowner where Dad and I have an old cedar tree cut into 1 inch planks, here’s the link to watch it now! We had to tear down the tree from my front yard because it was all over the roof and a hazard to the safety of my house. After it sat behind my garage for about a year, we drove it to a…
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3 Ways to Update Fireplace with Paint
Dramatic Fireplace Update with Paint Without spending a lot of money, you can change the look of your fireplace and hearth in just a few hours! Black Firebox I had never thought about painting the inside of our firebox until Dad and I helped update this dark, dated den and fireplace. And after updating the fireplace mantel with wood veneer, the rest of the fireplace looked shabby. So black, high heat paint* to the rescue! Using a 6 inch roller*, I easily applied the paint in one coat to cover our grungy, used-to-be-white firebox. Instantly cleaner look that will look that way for a long time since you won’t be…