Imagine you spend forever sanding, priming, and painting a beautiful piece of furniture you found at a garage sale. It looks fantastic...you breathed new life into it like a freaking pro. Go you! The last step is to protect the paint so it looks this amazing forever. You grab a sealer from the hardware store without much thought...because sealer is sealer, right? Except it's not, and your entire project turns yellow and streaky, completely ruining it.
As you can see in the above photo, …
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My Favorite Black Friday Finds
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I'm stuffed full of a few plates of food (mostly pie, admittedly) and unable to do anything productive...so instead I'm online shopping. I love home decor and I love deals, so naturally I've been perusing some of my favorite retailers to see what kind of deals they had going on for Black Friday/Cyber Monday. Here are the sales I found and some of my favorite items from each brand!
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Master Bedroom Tweaks + Leather Headboard Awesomeness
*A big thank you to Article for sponsoring this post! All opinions are 100% my own.
Our master bedroom is one of the first rooms we choose to complete in this house. Even though nearly every other room in our house is far from finished, I keep working on and tweaking the master bedroom. I love our bedroom, I think it's freaking beautiful and it's truly a retreat for my husband and at the end of a long day. Here are a few photos of it in progress over the last few years...
Late 2016, when we …
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Our DIY Farmhouse Laundry Room – The Reveal!
It's a big day around here, because it's room reveal day! Our farmhouse laundry room is completely finished...man it feels good to type that. Room reveals are my absolute favorite, not only because they mean I get to check another space off my to-do list, but also because I get to move onto a new space and appease my project ADD.
So here is the finished laundry room...check out this before and after!
Looking at the photo makes me smile so hard...what a difference!
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How to Make a Countertop out of Wood Flooring
So Adam and I have been working on our laundry room for a while now, but as we are not HGTV it actually takes us real-life amounts of time to finish a room remodel. Two years so far, I think... that's normal, right? Don't answer that. It has been a process but I swear we are almost done, and it gets more usable every time we work on it. It's actually starting to look pretty dang amazing.
As a refresher, here are the posts I have already written about the laundry room -
Laundry room …
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Our Leather Article Sofa – One Year Later
Every once in a while I go through my blog analytics to see what posts are doing really well, and which ones were a big 'ol flop. Doing this is extremely eye-opening, because the posts/projects that do really well are never the ones I expect. The two most popular posts I wrote in 2018 were "How to Paint Shiplap" (this one surprised the heck out of me), my series and review of our leather furniture from Article.
The question I get asked most often these days is "How is your Timber leather sofa …
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Summer 2019 Recap
Every summer I have high hopes of blogging and doing home projects with all four boys around, and each summer I fail horribly. So this summer I wizened up and just decided not to worry about the blog or getting anything done on the house. If it happened, great, if not, that's fine too. And you know what? Nothing got done, and it was great.
Anyway, now that the kids are back in school (two in elementary school and two in mothers day out two mornings a week) I'm refreshed and excited to get …
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Hot Tub Patio Reveal!
*Thank you to Article for providing the furniture to complete this project!
Hey there strangers, hope your summer is going well! Ours has been good...busy at times, slow at others, sometimes I'm enjoying the heck out of it, and sometimes I look at the calendar and count the days till school starts again. Don't pretend you don't do it too. This is a safe space.
Honestly Adam and I haven't been doing many projects lately, and it's been kinda nice. We did recently finish the hot tub patio …
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The Ultimate Guide to Painting Cabinets
A few months ago I asked which DIY topics y'all would like me to cover, and the most popular answer was a post on how to paint cabinets. That surprised me a bit, because I've actually written quite a few posts on the subject. The information is scattered and not easy to find though, so the obvious answer was to write one big post containing everything I've learned so far. So here it is, my ultimate guide to painting cabinets!
The first thing you need to know about painting …
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Entry Refresh and a Wooden Doormat Update
Today I have the most well-tested follow-up post for you ever. Not a year, or two years like most of my follow-up posts, but SEVEN years. So what project are we talking about today? These babies...
I made these wooden doormats back in 2012, when my blog was just a year old and I only had two kids. It feels like yesterday, but it wasn't. It's crazy how quickly time goes.
In the original post I said that I had no idea how these mats were going to work out...if they would catch dirt and …
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