Have I mentioned how much I love distressed furniture? Yeah…I’ve got a little bit of an obsession with it. But now when I walk through antique stores and see a really cool distressed piece I think to myself, “Self, you could do that!” Ever since I started using the Caromal Colors distressing kit, projects like that don’t scare me as…
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Our master bathroom came with some serious faux finish on the walls. Somebody somewhere spent a lot of time stippling and sponging and ragging these walls into faux finish perfection. Having spent some time faux finishing walls in the past, I really appreciated the effort that must have gone into that room. But, J and I just were not feeling…
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We’re trying this new thing at our house to get Garrett motivated to do what we say when we say it. Positive reinforcement, if you will, since we’ve really been struggling with the terrible two’s lately. I stumbled across this Melissa and Doug Magnetic Responsibility Chart at TJ Maxx one day. “How cool is this?” I thought. Then, “What the…
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The master bedroom in the new house was not in bad shape when we bought it. It was just beige. VERY beige. The walls and carpet were beige. And with our beige-ish furniture, it just looked really blah and washed out. See? (Garrett’s face cracks me up in this picture!) I really wanted to recreate the way that the dark…
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I’m finally ready to start showing off some of the projects that we’ve been working on since we moved into the new house. The house was built in 1996, but fortunately most of the house had been recently updated so there isn’t too much for us to do. Which is a great thing considering I have a two year old…
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