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Home tour
Yay for Poppies at play Check out all the lovely homes on the Parade of Homes tour.This became our home as of May 2010 We made a lot of changes in the...
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Board and batten really simple .
The first step to changing our son's room from this bright sunny yellow to a board and batten gray and charcoal was to put trim around the window. I love trim and will put it anywhere I can. None of...
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New Star Wars Room for my 5 year old
This is Mack's room which was this yellow color when we moved in a year ago.We added board and batten. Then had it painted. Changed the brass light to this light from Crate and Barrel 2, here is the...
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American Pride
Well I painted a board that was 32x12 months ago then forgot about it because I never came up with something to do with it. So it was outside slitting and fading a bit. Which made me think it could...
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Plate wall
My plate wall in my kitchen. White plates is the theme I was going for in this room.So I have white plates hanging every where.See how they just pop up in different places.If you haven't been over at...
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Master Bedroom Make Over
This is our bedroom (before). We changed out the chandelier when we moved in but we love the painted ceiling and the wall color. But now we want some wall molding done in this area.We picked a pattern...
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Then one night there was.....a fire.
There was a fire in our garage. It mostly melted the kitchen, which was the room it hurt the most.But the smoke went all through the house. First step was the cleaning crew that came and took away...
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First few days after the fire
Our house after they cleared out. Everything we own. I was shocked because I thought every room would be getting painted but they went a bit farther than that.They removed the ceiling and walls.The...
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http://budgetdecorating.about.com/b/2011/08/12/budget-decorating-friday-features-wainscoting.htm My room is the 2nd picture down.This About.Com The writer is Tonya Lee. Check out her articles. She has...
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Standard tub into a build in tub (faux that is)
This is a story of how and why our bath tub went from regular to build in looking in 3 hrs and $70. Here is the before and after shots of the tub. We just did a bathroom makeover and everything went...
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The New Kitchen (again)
This was the baby blue kitchen with brass handles before we moved in 17 months ago.We painted it Celebration Blue, changed to chrome handles, added chandeliers, black counter tops, and glass...
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The fireplace vinyl decal
We took down the family sign and the pictures to change the fireplace into a large statement piece.The vinyl is a 36x 24.
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Tree branch wall art
This was the very first tree branch wall art. It is a 4ft by 2 ft piece of plywood. I super glued a 2 foot long 1.5 inches wide flat piece of wood to the back so I would have a way to hang it off the...
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Subway Vinyl Art
With the first subway art. I just painted and old out of style wood sign that I had. I used all our birthdays, wedding anniversary date, and all the addresses that we have lived since my husband and I...
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Master Bathroom makeover
The pale blue with lots of brass before bathroom.We do not have many pictures of this room because after a year of living here we still had not decorated it. Everything was brass and baby blue. But we...
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Curtains Matter.
I really don't feel I have a choice on having curtains in the living room. It just looks really off with out them.So the first look was the curtain panel hanging across the window. This is what I...
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Sweep trash into a Vac Pan for $90
I hate using a trying to sweep the dirt up off the floor into a dust pan. It is hard with the broom on your shoulder while you try to sweep the stuff in the pan. I can't sweep it out the door because...
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Kid's bathroom makeover
The kids bathroom was light green with almond colored sink and tub. Sorry about the crappy picture but I never took a before picture until after we had smoke damage in the house from a garage fire. So...
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Hallway wall molding
The upstairs hallway. We added some molding. Used 4ft by 2 inch precut wood. $3.00 for each one. Then cut them to make the right squares for the walls. Used a nail gun to hang them ,caulked and...
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New Nursery
This is our entertainment room upstairs. We decided with have a new baby to make it into a 4th bedroom.New baby boy Kellan Anders will be here soon. Here is his new room. It use to be a playroom....
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