More Living Room?!

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After a busy {but FUN!} long weekend away in Niagara Falls, we don’t have any new projects to report…at least not today.  Instead we will share what we came up with after briefly rearranging the living room (we have friends coming to visit this weekend…Am I the only one who feels the desire to give guests something new to look [...]

Our Updated Kitchen

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Well, it’s mostly updated. Lol. Considering we just re-hauled the entire thing last year, it seems a little silly to be updating it already. But there just simply wasn’t enough… ‘personality’. So we’ve added half-cup pulls on the drawers, track lighting and lighter paint. After some discussion we will be adding pendant lights over the [...]

Simple Slipcovers

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With our attempts to lighten up our living and dining rooms over the last few months (the coffee table, armoire, hutch, etc.), the dining room table and chairs were left looking a little, well, sad. Hubby wants to paint them. I agree. But it’s about minus 10 degrees (Celsius) here this week and snowing. With [...]

You Light Up My Life

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Well, we lit up the hallway anyway! We posted awhile back about our front hall progress from ‘teenie tiny’ to ‘ah, much better’. There are still a few projects left to finish (does it ever end really?) like sanding and refinishing the hardwood and putting down quarter round and painting the remainder of the ceiling and [...]

Graphic Statement Wall: Update

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As promised we are updating you with a photo of our graphic statement wall with the crown moulding. But first here is the wall before: We have a T-shaped hallway and this is one end of it. The kitchen doorway is to the right and the front door to the left. And now the after: What [...]

Buffet and Hutch Reveal!

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****THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH SUNNY-DAY PHOTOS!!! **** The sun came out for about ten minutes on Black Friday – of all days! So we quickly snapped some new photos. Enjoy! It is finally finished! That giant piece that is our buffet and hutch is done…and looking beautiful, I might add. First let me apologize [...]

We Heart Better After

Here’s a huge thanks to Better After for featuring our Heart coffee table redo today!    

Goodwill Lamp Makeover

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Technically this lamp is part of our living room mini makeover…but I thought if I titled this post Living Room Mini Makeover – Part Four, you all might just disown me! (In case you’ve missed it you can read about the rest of the makeover here, here and here). In doing our living room revamp, we [...]

Living Room Mini Makeover – Part Three

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Are you all tired of our Living Room yet? We’ve finally finished the piece that began this living room makeover: the great big, gifted, pine armoire. If you recall this is what we started with:   And then we made some small changes, like organizing the books, adding some blue and straightening up the shelves:   [...]

Living Room Mini Makeover – Part Two

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If you’re a regular reader, you know that we’ve been making over our little old war-era bungalow one diy project at a time for the last several months. Unfortunately, I tend to bounce around a bit and not finish one room entirely before moving onto another project (I clean like that too, a little here, oh look [...]