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DIY: laundry room refresh
Vanessa updated the family laundry room, clearing out the junk, painting the room white, and organizing the canned goods and cleaning supplies. She also added a cafe curtain, a rug, a ceiling light fixture, and a proper laundry sink. The end result is a room that feels clean and calm.
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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…
