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A Warm Welcome to Silky Bamboo
This weekend, we finally FINALLY decided on a grasscloth for Greta's room and got it ordered (woot!). We realized it was so tough deciding because we were trying to coordinate all of these natural, warm-toned grasscloths with gray paint. Which is doable, I'm sure, but it was making my eyes crazy! The grasscloth samples were […]
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January 7, 2013
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C is for Cookie. C+ is for LOTS of Cookies.
A year ago, we blogged about 10 projects that you could look forward to happening in 2012--and today we are here to report back and grade ourselves and laugh at what we thought we would get done, but also celebrate what we did--with a focus on the celebrating, because that is what this is all […]
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January 4, 2013
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A Pelmet And Her Cub (Or, The Pelmet is Done!!)
After we decided pelmets were for us, or at least Greta's window, we got right to work and busted it out in forty minutes---and then it took me about an hour to upholster it, and two days to find time when Greta wasn't occupying her room to hang it and another day for me to […]
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December 20, 2012
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Squinting and Staring at Grasscloth Samples
We are plugging along in Greta's room. Because there are so many elements going into it--we really are stripping the room of almost everything--it is taking a lot longer than we had hoped. And then there's the fact that Greta-the-Great sleeps in there every night, which is when we tend to get the brunt of […]
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December 18, 2012
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DIY The Easiest Card Holder. Ever.
This time of year is the best for mail. I did nearly all of my Christmas shopping online, so between the packages arriving daily and the real gems, receiving holiday cards from our friends and family, every day feels like Christmas! We haven't shipped out our cards yet--that's my goal this weekend!--but the cards have […]
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December 14, 2012
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A New Fixture for the Big Girl's Room
Thanks for excusing me for a few days while I gave my full attention to our little sicky. Truthfully, Greta is still sick with a bad and everlasting case of croup. I think we are on day 5 or 6 now, and it is just as heart-breaking today as it was the first day and […]
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December 10, 2012
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Gray Owl Beats Corn Husks.
Truth be told, there was a time that I really loved the color we chose to paint Greta's room (which is...er was Behr's Corn Husk Green). It felt fresh compared to the dingy walls we started with and since this was the very first room we painted in our very first house, I am not […]
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December 5, 2012
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The Reveal: Family Room Before and Afters.
This post has been a long time coming. It was February, nine months ago (!), when we decided that we wanted/needed to completely renovate our family room. We installed new carpet, baseboards, built-ins, bought new furniture, installed recessed lighting and even a new window! This has really been the room of the year, and while […]
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November 14, 2012
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Removing Sharpie from Upholstered Furniture
You can also file this under Things that Make you go, "$@#$*!" Oh Greta, Greta, Greta. Last month she took a Sharpie to a wall, but that was cake (magic eraser + primer and paint for good measure) compared to this: Her latest art project, in which she put herself in time-out for and I […]
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November 1, 2012
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Our Dark DIYed Wainscoting Reveal
Our DIYed full-wall wainscoting is done, and on time! As Chris and I were talking about the entire project, we were so pleasantly surprised with how fast it went. We dedicated a couple hours to it on Monday and Tuesday night and then yesterday, I sanded and painted and it was done before Chris got […]
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October 25, 2012
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Full-Wall Wainscot Part II
I am going to attempt to make this a quick post so I can try to get more of this paneling painted before Greta wakes up from her nap. It's always a race against nap time over here, I tell ya. Yesterday, we left you with our baseball-hall-of-fame-esque paneling. Last night we continued the quicky […]
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October 24, 2012
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We're Doing It!
Yesterday I mentioned we had one more quicky project up our sleeves before our party this weekend. Earlier this month, we hinted we were planning on hanging a gallery wall above the couch and I had started laying out a template: Scratch that. I take it back. For the record, I actually did get a […]
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October 23, 2012
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Laundry Room/Half Bath Before and Afters
I'm glad we took the weekend to finish up the laundry room. That plumbing took Chris a little while to figure out--but he did it (!!) and having a new sink and faucet and all around easier-on-the-eyes room has made such a difference. Like every other before and after, it is fun to look at […]
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October 22, 2012
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Trimmity Trim Trim
Do you want to know how you can instantly change a room? Paint. But do you know what else? Trim. Maybe neither of those are "instant" but in less than a couple hours of work last night, Chris and I added chair molding and baseboards to the laundry room/half bath (I need an acronym for […]
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October 18, 2012
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Taking Grout from Dark and Dingy to White and Bright
What a jam-packed weekend we had! We celebrated Chris's birthday, shopped 'til we dropped, had family pictures taken and friends over for dinner. Since Chris's birthday was Saturday, one of my unspoken gifts to him was zero house projects--so I squeezed this one in Friday afternoon during Greta's nap. For two and a half hours […]
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October 15, 2012
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Gray Squirrel and Bright White
There were a few factors that went into choosing the paint color for the laundry room--1. Does it work well with the other colors in our home? 2. Does it match the tile flooring that we're keeping for now? 3. How will it look in a windowless room? Luckily, I had a chunk of tile […]
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October 12, 2012
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Laundry Room 2.0. Go! Go! Go!
It's time for our annual laundry room revamp. Ha! I wish I was joking. We really would love to not make fixing up the laundry room/half bath an annual thing--but time has worn this baby down again. Last year, we took the original space: And made it more presentable for our costume party guests: Fast […]
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October 10, 2012
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The End is Near
We had an okay weekend over here. Greta was under the weather on Friday. Then I was feeling crummy on Saturday and Sunday and poof, there goes the weekend. But it is a new day and a new week and we gots stuff to do! This week, the name of the game is finish the […]
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October 1, 2012
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Fauxdenza Crendenza!
Two weeks ago, we shared part one of our new "fauxdenza" in the living room made of 3 Akrum wall cabinets from Ikea floating a few inches above the floor. It was a great solution to a large credenza for hundreds (in some cases, thousands) less. But the white cabinets alone, left a lot […]
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September 26, 2012
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How to Undo Spray Paint
Remember when I committed the crime of the century earlier this week and spray painted our new-to-us quirky coffee table oil-rubbed bronze...and it came up...flat? 75% of commenters agreed, the brass was better. I should note, Chris doesn't care for the brass. I think his words were, "Brass and smoked glass together make me gag." […]
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September 20, 2012
