Category: HOME IMPROVEMENT
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How We Discreetly Toddler-Proofed Our House
June is National Safety Month and what better way to bring awareness than to share how we’ve outfitted our home to protect our most precious asset: our children. I never thought I’d be the one to go all out on the baby proofing and other than some outlet plugs and hacking an Ikea cabinet to…
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Tutorial | Banquette Bench
The built-in bench in our dining nook was one of the first DIY projects we tackled after moving into our new house last April. I was confident we could do this ourselves after building our built-ins at the condo but we definitely learned some lessons along the way on this one. PROJECT PREP To start…
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Our 1 Year Houseiversary (that we forgot)
Our 1 year houseiversary has come and gone – the year mark was officially on April 8th so we’re about 2 months past it now without any mention or celebration but considering all that’s going on in the world right now, it’s trivial. Nonetheless, one of the reasons I love having the blog is for…
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How To Paint A Paneled Door
This post is sponsored by Clare When we moved in last April, the paint color on the walls wasn’t horrible – but the the dusty blue color did nothing to show off the vaulted ceilings or beautiful millwork but instead, made the living room feel dark and dingy. Aside from our daughter’s room, the entire…
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Tutorial | Custom Paneled Bi-Fold Closet Doors
One of the biggest projects we tackled in our One Room Challenge space was adding closet doors where there was previously none. Don’t remember what the closet area looked like before? Let me remind you: The previous owners removed the closet doors much like we did in our previous nursery but as Emie has gotten…