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Modern Master Bathroom Reveal
Small Bathroom Addition, Big Style We recently completed our master bathroom addition. Here’s how I packed a big style punch into the small space. Accent Wall I’ll start with the most obvious part of the bathroom, the tile accent wall. It’s the first thing you notice when you walk in and where we spent the most money, besides the framing and roof.
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Glam Pumpkin Projects on HLN
DIY Sequin and Watercolor Pumpkins If you missed my segment all about ‘glamming’ up pumpkins for fall on HLN last Sunday, click to watch it above! A few weeks ago, I was thrilled to be asked to join Susan Hendricks on HLN’s Weekend Express! I spent the week leading up to the taping of the segment crafting with pumpkins! You can read my tutorial on 3 Ways to Decorate Pumpkins by clicking here. Since HLN is a sister network of CNN, I traveled to the CNN Center in Atlanta to tape the segment and it was a blast! I’ve been in news studios before, and even interned at CBS’s The…
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3 Pumpkin Decorating Ideas
Easy Ways to Decorate Real and Faux Pumpkins Dress up real pumpkins with sequins, add a watercolor look to faux pumpkins, or create pumpkins from scratch with concrete for glammed up fall decorations! Bedazzled Sequin Pumpkins I’ve never been a big fan of spooky Halloween. I’m all about fall and pumpkins, in or out of my food/drinks, though.😋 If you prefer ‘pretty’ things for your fall decor too, these dressy pumpkins are for you!
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Easy Way to Clean and Maintain a Concrete Walkway
How To Make Concrete Low Maintenance Sealing concrete can actually reduce how often you have to clean it! Clean It Well As I mentioned in my fireplace makeover video, my projects tend to snowball and get out of hand pretty quickly…well, that’s what happened here. We need to reapply some caulk and touch up paint on the railings and columns on our front porch. But you can’t paint dirty wood. So I decided to pressure wash the whole front porch. Then I thought while I have the pressure washer out, let me go ahead and clean the front walk. And then I’ll seal it too. It’s been way too long…
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Easy Way to Update a Painted Fireplace
How to Cover Painted Wood with Veneer If you have painted cabinets or a painted fireplace mantel, I’m sharing how to cover it up to have stained wood instead! Materials Maple adhesive-backed veneer* razor knife wood stain* sealer* paint stripper** putty knife** straight edge/4 foot level **These items aren’t necessary for the wood veneer but I used them for other steps in the video above! After seeing this picture on Instagram a few years ago, I really wanted to have a stained fireplace! But since mine was already painted, I’d have to tear it out to build a different one with stain-quality lumber. Until now… Why Wood Veneer Obviously, the…
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Cozy Curb Appeal 4 Ways
4 Ways to Create Cozy Curb Appeal There’s not just one way to create curb appeal for your home! Here are 4 ways we’ve recently updated the curb appeal of 3 different houses featured on episodes of Today’s Homeowner. Tear Down What Doesn’t Work Sometimes you don’t need to add anything to update your home’s curb appeal. You just need to get rid of what’s not working for you anymore. This can be big or small! We worked on one house that had a sad and ugly fiberglass carport attached to the brick. The worst part was that it leaked, so it really wasn’t offering that much protection. It was the…
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Divide and Conquer Laundry Room Clutter
How to Add Function to a Laundry Room Changing the entrance to a small bathroom made this laundry room a whole lot more functional! Before-Laundry Room/Hallway At the beginning of this project featured on an episode of Today’s Homeowner, the laundry room served as a hallway to the small, adjacent powder room. It also lacked storage and opportunities for organization.
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My Favorite Kitchen Makeover!
20-year old Kitchen Gets a Paint-Lift Painting kitchen cabinets is ALWAYS a win in my book. I’m never not amazed, surprised, and blown away! Original Kitchen Cabinets This kitchen project was a 2-part episode shared on Today’s Homeowner. And I’m still obsessed with it. The cabinets were in pretty good shape considering they were original to this 20+ year old house. But they showed their age in the stain color. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love the look of stained wood. But this orangey color was done so much during the time period this house was built, it automatically puts a date stamp on this kitchen and it keeps…
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DIY Ceiling Fan Installation
How to Change a Light into a Ceiling Fan You don’t need to hire an electrician to change out your old bedroom light fixture for a stylish ceiling fan! I’ll show you how to do it yourself! Remove Old Fixture For some situations, just turning off the light switch will kill the power to your light fixture. But there are some wiring situations where this is not the case. So the best bet is to turn off the power at the source – the circuit breaker! After unscrewing whatever is holding your old fixture in place and lowering it from the ceiling, you’ll see all of the wire connections. For…