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I See the Light!
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March 12, 2012
I See the Light!
9 months ago, while painting our staircase spindles and railings (ironic I was doing the same thing this weekend), I took a break and wrote a quick post about something I couldn't stop thinking about: Adding a window in the family room. Our family room looked so different back then, huh?! When we started this […]
March 12, 2012
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Who You Gonna Call
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March 9, 2012
Who You Gonna Call
You may remember our inspiration photo as far as art goes for the family room from our mood board: I originally found this photo here, but of course didn't link the exact post and now I can't find it again. Pet peeve. We have plenty of paintings dabbling the house, and in a relaxed […]
March 9, 2012
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Losing Sleep over Clashing Grays
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March 8, 2012
Losing Sleep over Clashing Grays
When we revealed our new paint color for the family room, we were so happy that so many of you loved it as much as we did. There was one issue that the paint color did bring up, that I was trying to avoid thinking about fixing it. However, when one of our readers brought […]
March 8, 2012
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March 2012 Chalkboard Drawing
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March 7, 2012
March 2012 Chalkboard Drawing
Is it really the 7th already? I admit, I was a bit late getting this month's drawing done and to the printers, but here it is (!): Why a cow butcher chart? I specifically remember watching one episode of Good Eats when Alton Brown was going over the different cuts of meat that come […]
March 7, 2012
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DIY
Built-In Billys Part 1
DIY
March 6, 2012
Built-In Billys Part 1
A large part of this family room renovation is the wall of built-in bookcases that will flank either side of the sliding glass doors that lead out to the back patio. It's our solution to our home's pesky foundation that sticks out into the square footage of the room. The builders built a half wall […]
March 6, 2012
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The Great "Do Your Own Recessed Lighting" Post
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March 5, 2012
The Great "Do Your Own Recessed Lighting" Post
The ceiling fan had to go. Not because we're not fan fans. Because we are. But I can't remember one time when we actually used it. The chains were stuck for awhile so initially we couldn't use the light without also having the fan on--so we opted out of both. So really, this huge, room-shrinking, […]
March 5, 2012
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Winterthur Carpet, FTW.
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March 2, 2012
Winterthur Carpet, FTW.
You may (or may not) remember what our old carpet looked like in the family room. It wasn't very memorable. Standard oatmeal color. A much higher pile than we would have chosen for ourselves: The carpet made us uneasy. When we moved into this home last year it was very dirty. We had to wear […]
March 2, 2012
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Ode to Martha Stewart's Zinc
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March 1, 2012
Ode to Martha Stewart's Zinc
Last night, we painted the walls. After demolition, framing out a wall, sheetrocking, and patching infinite holes in the ceiling and lots of other dirty jobs--we both agreed it felt great to do something pretty low key like painting walls. Chris and I have painting down and we can knock out a room in about […]
March 1, 2012
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DIYing Speckled Skin. I mean, Textured Ceilings.
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February 29, 2012
DIYing Speckled Skin. I mean, Textured Ceilings.
This isn't one of those never-buy-this-product posts. It will also be pretty evident that this isn't a "sponsored post." You know, those ones that have the disclaimer at the end where the blogger says that they were paid, but they promise all of the overly nice things they say about the product are absolutely true […]
February 29, 2012
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Family Room Textile Teaser
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February 28, 2012
Family Room Textile Teaser
The first pillow cover that we're working into our family room arrived over the weekend. It's gorgeous. It's thick and soft and well constructed. I mentioned I wanted to introduce chocolate as an accent color when I talked about our mood board here, and this is the exact color I was thinking of. You can […]
February 28, 2012
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Venting
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February 27, 2012
Venting
Or, "How to move your ceiling vents"....orrrr, "Make way for crown molding!" There aren't a ton of online tutorials about moving your ceiling vents to a different location (I couldn't find any--which made this project even more nerve-wrecking), but that's exactly what we did on Saturday. With the plans to have built-in bookcases from floor […]
February 27, 2012
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The Homies--Best DIY Blog Nom
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February 27, 2012
The Homies--Best DIY Blog Nom
Our blog was nominated for a Homie award for best DIY blog! So honored. With so many inspiring blogs nominated in our category, we don't expect to win--but if you are a reader, we'd love your vote of support as a way of saying, "Keep it up!" Thank you, everyone. You make living in constant […]
February 27, 2012
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win.dow |ˈwindō|
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February 24, 2012
win.dow |ˈwindō|
Guess what is happening this afternoon. I'm gonna try to contain my excitement during the process. I don't want to be a total weirdy and watch and stare the whole time--but playing it cool has never been my strong suit. I'm gonna take about 230 pictures and lean over the banister smiling the whole time. […]
February 24, 2012
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Plugging along in Sheetrockville.
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February 23, 2012
Plugging along in Sheetrockville.
Tuesday night was sheetrock night. It was also the night where we renamed the paint color in our home "Drywall." Isn't the color eerily similar to the paint on the walls? Nuts. I'm sure we did things unconventional, but like always--we do what works for us. "Us" being I man and one relatively weak-sauce woman. […]
February 23, 2012
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For Sale: 5 Birds on Wire
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February 22, 2012
For Sale: 5 Birds on Wire
We got the drywall up last night, but we still have to do the mudding and taping so we'll save that post for tomorrow so I can give the full rundown on how we checked "walls" off of our to-do list. If you already have walls, especially blank walls, you are gonna want to […]
February 22, 2012
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We Got Framed.
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February 21, 2012
We Got Framed.
Cheesiest, most expected title right? You love it. Last time you saw this wall, we had just finished demolition and it looked like this: Now, a few sick days and several stubborn concrete nails later, it looks like this: Chris and I finished framing this wall last night. Now, Chris helped build his parents' home, […]
February 21, 2012
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Sickness, Sofas, and Carpet Saga
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February 20, 2012
Sickness, Sofas, and Carpet Saga
Whew! This weekend involved a lot of sneezing, coughing, crying and me attempting to make soup for my sick babies (Greta and Chris). None of it was pretty, especially the soup part. Thankfully, everyone is feeling loads better which means Chris and I are back knee-deep in sheet rock--we really want to finish building the […]
February 20, 2012
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Our Plans to Disguise the Pesky Foundation
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February 17, 2012
Our Plans to Disguise the Pesky Foundation
Yesterday, we let you see what fun it was to take that silly half wall down--but we can barely wait to build things back up in a way that makes more sense to us than a random wall/shelf two-thirds of the way up a wall. So, here are the plans. Albeit, a very rough floorplanner.com […]
February 17, 2012
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My First Go at Demolition.
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February 16, 2012
My First Go at Demolition.
We had some technical difficulties yesterday. I thought I lost my MacBook. I knew where it was--but I thought it had gone kaput. Luckily, its sudden turning off and not turning back on was just a charging issue. So, for now if I keep a weight on the cord, it stays on. Hahaha. I'll take […]
February 16, 2012
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Tabula Rasa
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February 14, 2012
Tabula Rasa
The sectional sold. The piano found a new home. The room is getting measured for new carpet tomorrow and my Valentine (Hey-yo Chris!) took the day off to snuggle get this project started. I feel nervous and excited and anxious to get it going and see our plans come together. Let the family room reno […]
February 14, 2012
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