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Cleaning Tile Floors Without Chemicals
This post is sponsored by Wagner. Yesterday, we showed you the finished hall half bath. A lot of work went into the quick makeover and the results left us with a fresh looking and feeling space. The only things we didn't get to were swapping out the faucet (we'll find the perfect one soon) […]
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November 5, 2013
DIY
Half Bath: Afters!
We're calling this bathroom done! ... For now. We still need to replace the faucet and eventually the tile floors, but those things will come. You can see lots of befores in this post, but here's a before and after side by side (and lots of photos following with sources at the end): The lines […]
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November 4, 2013
DIY
Painting and Planking the Hall Half Bath--Part II
I feel like we have left you with a few loose ends when talking about the hall half bath. First, we left you with a photo of the paneling installed, but unfinished. And then Friday, we spilled the beans that while painting the paneling, we also repainted the walls. Anyway, without further ado, here's how […]
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October 28, 2013
DIY
A New Fixture and Paint-a-thon
We put in a lot of painting hours yesterday. The good news is, it's done! (The painting part.) The bad news is, it was so late (11pm) that I didn't get to snap any photos for you, so we'll have all of those pictures for you on Monday. Painting the planks took a lot longer […]
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October 25, 2013
DIY
Planking The Bathroom--Part 1
Before I even start trying to break down this process for you from observing and interviewing Chris, I have to note--he did this one all by himself. We planned on adding planked walls to the lower half of this hall bath, but when? When I stopped throwing up all day. I wasn't sure. Last week, […]
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October 24, 2013
DIY
The Hall Half Bath Befores
Did you know the difference between a half bath and a powder room is just geographic jargon? Maybe when this room is done, I'll feel fancy enough to call it a powder room, but for now--it's a half bath. A very green half bath. As mentioned in this post, this little bathroom is on the […]
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October 1, 2013
DIY
Peel and Stick Bathroom Floors
This post is a little late. Camera problems. Busy problems. But I wanted to update you on our weekend. Saturday we had two showings. We haven't listed our house yet because we still felt like there were things that need to be done, but word got out that we were moving and a couple people […]
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July 8, 2013
DIY
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
DIY
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
DIY
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
