Projects
Turning A Homework Room into A Sweet Retreat
During the month of March, our long-time partner, Ace Hardware is helping consumers discover a new love for color through a month-long interactive paint experience called 31 Days of Color. Every day unveils a new “Color of the Day” selected from Ace’s exclusive Valspar and Clark+Kensington paint lines and today's the day we get to […]
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March 23, 2015
DIY
How to Patch Drywall like a girl, Our Freshly Painted Room + $100 to Ace!
Our bedroom is finally painted, and I can't believe I waited so long to do it. (I say that every time.) But before we get into that, let's first address the gorilla-sized hole in the room, seen in the picture below: See on the wall under the window? Last year, as we were doing the […]
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February 27, 2015
DIY
The Prettiest Blue Paint for an Exterior + A Giveaway!
Our backyard neighbor's house is the most beautiful blue. One of the first times we met them, I told them how much I loved the color of their house and how it reminded me of the east coast, where I grew up. She laughed and said they went to medical school on the east coast […]
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November 20, 2014
DIY
Wallpaper!! + $100 Ace Giveaway
We got the wallpaper in the entry up and it is dreamy and just what we hoped! It actually made the area look bigger (hard to portray in photos--you really must stop by) and so much more interesting. As a refresher, here's how the entry looked last month. For our Ace Hardware project for October, […]
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October 29, 2014
Toolbox
A Colossal Garage Upgrade (and $100!)
It's been a busy year, full of projects and...boxes, apparently. Last month, my mom and I tackled our garage that has been holding a lot of evidence of the past few months--all of which had been haunting me. It only took a few hours, if you can believe that!, and the next day, my dad […]
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August 26, 2014
DIY
TIME is All You Need + $200 To Ace!
One of our favorite sponsors, Ace Hardware, recently ranked "Highest in Customer Satisfaction with Home Improvement Retail Stores" for the eighth year in a row by J.D. Power*! Ace is literally the only hardware store within a 30 minute drive--and it's just a mile down the road. Score. We go into our store (maybe 15 times […]
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August 4, 2014
Sourcing & Planning
Wood Dipped Bench + $100 Giveaway!
We got this bench a while ago, and refinished it beautifully and it sat in our last home just fine. And then we moved here and somehow it got put outside one day and then it just stayed there day after day until it looked like this: So sad. The funny thing is, as worn […]
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July 1, 2014
DIY
Our Kitchen Cabinet Paint Colors
Part of my Ace Hardware Blogger duties this month included checking out their new paint studio--which is very boutique like with the slide out drawers of paint chips. Classy!--and trying out their new line of Valspar Optimus line they started carrying. Choosing what to paint wasn't difficult, our kitchen cabinets have been on my list […]
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May 15, 2014
DIY
DIY Faux Soapstone Countertop
We're diving head first into updating our current kitchen!! After we recently finished the floors, our cabinets are looking more orange than ever and we left a disposable table cloth on our island in place of a countertop. Eeeks. Although we are planning a full kitchen remodel next year (??), painting our cabinets is an […]
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April 29, 2014
DIY
Removing Grout Haze the Easy Way
Although we showed you the "finished" floors in yesterday's post, there is one part of the process that we haven't covered--grout! In my post about Tips for Achieving Realistic Faux Wood Tile, I mentioned that "opting for a grout color a shade darker than our tile will keep things looking more natural." Our grout lines were the […]
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April 1, 2014
Toolbox
Our Latest Indispensable Find + $100 Ace Giveaway
Chris and I have always been very selective about the sponsors and partners we work with. Our main goal of our blog is to document our home renovation and to share a little peek into our lives occasionally. We look at it as a story and we like our simple story. We pass on a […]
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March 4, 2014
DIY
White Mosaic in the Nursery
When we bought this home in the summer, we had plans to turn this room into an office, but we're so much happier to transform it into a nursery in the coming months. We have a direction for this room, but not a complete mood board put together yet. I think that will be one […]
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December 16, 2013
DIY
Project Shelving: A Wall for The Sconces
Our reading room shelving project has officially taken off and has changed a little bit since the last time we talked about it. We discovered a legit lumber yard down the road a few miles that made it too hard to turn down wood shelves instead of painting them white. But before we even get […]
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November 27, 2013
DIY
A Neighborly Pantry
As I mentioned here, one of our favorite things about being on the Ace Bloggers panel is that there is a real focus on the neighborhood. In fact, we recently had the chance to do a whole project for one of our neighbors. It's not like we're hurting for projects to do around here, but […]
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November 25, 2013
DIY
Winterizing The Lawn
We were recently invited by Ace Hardware to be a part of their first ever Ace Blogger Panel. It's exciting and new and the reason for my trip to Chicago (their headquarters) a few weeks ago. Ace's whole goal is to create a hardware store experience that makes you feel like you're getting help from […]
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November 13, 2013
