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Ever since we came in contact with the Pugmire’s concrete countertops in their kitchen, we have had it in the back of our minds for ours–except in white to contrast our dark cabinets. We love to mix traditional and modern with an industrial edge in our home and white concrete countertops around the perimeter of […]

We recently celebrated the second anniversary of having Charly as part of our family. (You can read about when we got her here and the 1st year here.)  Our lives and home would not be complete without this big (150lb!) girl who is part St. Bernard and part Great Pyrenees. The most enjoyable thing about […]

Last time we showed you the laundry room, it looked something like this: We had just installed our new Ikea cabinets and hardware, as well as lighting, too. (I could not find a pulled back photo of the cabinets with hardware before we trimmed it out–hence the lack of pretty gold pulls in the photo above.) While […]

Our bedroom is finally painted, and I can’t believe I waited so long to do it. (I say that every time.) But before we get into that, let’s first address the gorilla-sized hole in the room, seen in the picture below: See on the wall under the window? Last year, as we were doing the […]

If you’ve been MIA the last week, we forwarded on a laundry renovation we were given by Wayfair and Ace Hardware to our dear friends who desperately needed it. Chris’s back surgery went well last week– perfectly even–but he has a strict recovery program that doesn’t allow lifting more than 5 pounds let alone renovating […]

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