The Laundry Room Makeover!

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Hey everyone, hope you had a great weekend!  I was able to finish up some painting and snap some shots of the laundry room finally, and am so excited to show you the room now!  It’s come a long way that’s for sure. :)  And now, here’s the new orange and aqua laundry room! I [...]

A New House

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Well, not for us so don’t get too excited, although I’d happily take this house in a heartbeat. This is my Mom and Stepdad’s new house. Isn’t it beautiful?  They just moved in last Friday.  I’ll give you a little tour of the inside. The entryway: And it used to look like this when they [...]

Making Your Doors Pretty With Molding (and a How-to)

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Hi everyone, hope you had a great weekend! July around here is a crazy busy month, but actually the whole summer has been. :) But, I am so thrilled with how this latest project I finished up last week turned out. Like, it may be one of my favorite projects to date. Remember when I [...]

Molding Highlights!

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I’ve been having so much fun going through all of the link-ups from the molding party!  Y’all are AMAZING and thank you so much for joining the party!  I loved all of them and wish I could highlight them all.  But since I can’t do that, I encourage everyone to go back to the molding [...]

Let’s Have a Party! {A Molding Party}

Hi everyone!  As I’ve been working on the boy’s room, I was thinking it would be a great idea if I had a link party where all of you can show off any projects you’ve done that included any kind of molding, wainscoting, what have you.  That’s how I was inspired to do the paneled [...]

The Boy’s Room

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My stepson (and my stepdaughter’s) rooms need some serious TLC.  We haven’t really done anything to their rooms.  Lot’s of hand-me-down and mixed matched things in their rooms.  But it’s time to fix that and make their rooms a nice little retreat. Here is his room as it is today. And I am sorry–it was [...]

From Mediocre to Marvelous: A Beadboard Bar

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I’ve been soooo excited to share this project with you all! It was SO easy, a quick project, and only $20 bucks! I love easy beadboard ideas, so let me introduce you to our new beadboard bar! I have been wanting to put up beadboard under our kitchen bar for quite a while.  Originally I [...]

Wainscoting Question

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I’m going to add the wainscoting like I did on this wall, and in the office, to the living room.  There are really only 2 connecting walls in this room, and one of them is full of windows. So, I plan on doing it to this wall on the right… But my question is, would [...]

I Want To Do This. Should I?

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Isn’t that paneling gorgeous?  That image is from Phillip Sides who does lovely work. And I am thinking of doing it to this big wall… Sorry for the Christmas photos…it was raining and dark ALL day yesterday.  All Christmas decor is stored and put away and it feels so good. :) But my question is, [...]

The Staircase Makeover!

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Well the stairwell wall is finally complete!  Hip hip hooray! Let’s take a look at the before photos shall we? The above picture is the wall to the right of the staircase, but still the same wall. And now….the after! Ahhh, don’t you love moulding?? We continued the rail to that little wall behind the [...]

The Stairs: Picture Frame Moulding

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I wanted to do a separate post just about the picture moulding, because it’s kind of technical so it deserves to be talked about on its own. :) When you are trying to do wainscoting up a staircase, you are going to have odd angles and cuts.  But this new little gadget my Dad introduced [...]

What Happens When Your Dad Takes Over Your Projects…

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Let me begin by saying I had made a little progress starting a gallery wall on our big empty staircase wall, but I just wasn’t feeling it.  It needed more than just pictures, so what’s the solution?  Moulding, and lots of it. So, I had told my Dad my ideas and plans for our staircase [...]

The Evolution of Our Dining Room

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This post takes a lot of courage y’all.  It should be quite humorous for you, embarrassing for me.  Just remember that everyone starts from somewhere and has to make do with what they have, and people’s decorating styles change okay? :) Here is how our dining room looked for about a year after we moved [...]

Multipurpose Room Progress: Board and Batten!

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To satisfy my love of all kinds of different styles and colors, I decided to do board and batten on the one big wall in our upstairs multipurpose room. :)  The upstairs will have a different vibe than the downstairs, and I think that’s so fun!  Probably a design rule no-no, but I don’t follow [...]

Crown Molding in Dining Room w/Tutorial

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Well me and the hubs did a DIY project all by ourselves!  We installed crown in our dining room.  It was actually very easy, inexpensive, and anyone can do this, trust me.  I love doing things to our home that adds value, and architectural features definitely do that.  I’ll give a brief tutorial as I [...]

How To: Fake Wainscoting

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Remember my “Difference Molding Can Make” post?  If you don’t, I’ll be nice and show you the after picture again when we put up the chair rail and framed boxes… I liked it, but wanted to try something different.  We have textured walls, so I was a little scared to try this, but I have [...]

Master Bedroom Redo

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*UPDATE* – This room has been redone again, so click here for the latest redo. :) Well our room is just about finished so I’m going to show it now.  :)  I know you probably want to see pictures first, but let me just talk a little bit…or a lot.  This will be a long [...]

The Difference Molding Can Make

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I love molding (moulding?).  I want it everywhere in our house.  Why don’t builders make it a standard feature instead of an upgrade?  I think the housing market would be much better if so.  :) I first added it to a big entry wall which also adjoins the family room.  Here is the wall before, [...]