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DIY Little Free Library
How to build a little library for your house. Learn from my experience, including mistakes I made.
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DIY: new office space
Vanessa creates a home office in an unused corner of her room, adding wallpaper and a bookshelf to make the space functional and beautiful.
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small changes: new toilet seat
One of our toilets at our Airbnb was showing a lot of wear and tear on the seat — the paint was chipping in places. Plus, there wasn’t a soft-close mechanism, so every time we closed the top, it would clang against the seat. I’d never swapped out a toilet seat before, but it turned…
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Valentine’s Day craft
easy craft for Valentine’s Day
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building your own dance floor for about $80
how to build a DIY dance floor using wooden pallets and plywood sheets.
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ideas for bringing life to an older kitchen
Ideas for rehabbing a dated kitchen without spending a lot of money. In this post, I give my friend some easy, quick steps to bring life to her older kitchen.
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wallpaper accent wall
Over a year ago, I thought our living room was finished. I wrote a long post explaining all that we’d done to the room (including the detours along the way that didn’t quite work), and I was so happy with the result. ouiBut a while ago I was sitting in one of the chairs and…
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painting and staining outdoor furniture — or how I gave a mouse a cookie
I hope you had a lovely August! School started for us two weeks ago, so we’ve moved into the maelstrom of buying school supplies, planning lunches, and signing up for sports. But, first, I have to finish my list! In July I knocked quite a few things off the list. So when August began, my…
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painting the stairwell
Over the past few years, I’ve gotten really tired of the gray in our house. When I first painted it, I thought it was classy and clean looking. But post-pandemic, with both of us working at home, I want the house to feel light and airy. Plus, the pictures weren’t hanging straight. They’d been knocked…
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painting kitchen cabinets and adding trim around window
For the past few years, our kitchen cabinets have been in a STATE. They’d accumulated weird stains during the pandemic, when we used the kitchen nonstop, and no amount of scrubbing could get them clean. The doors under the kitchen sink were particularly awful. But I was worried about painting them — I didn’t want…
