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I am going to attempt to make this a quick post so I can try to get more of this paneling painted before Greta wakes up from her nap.  It’s always a race against nap time over here, I tell ya.  Yesterday, we left you with our baseball-hall-of-fame-esque paneling.   Last night we continued the […]

What a jam-packed weekend we had!  We celebrated Chris’s birthday, shopped ’til we dropped, had family pictures taken and friends over for dinner. Since Chris’s birthday was Saturday, one of my unspoken gifts to him was zero house projects–so I squeezed this one in Friday afternoon during Greta’s nap.  For two and a half hours […]

Two weeks ago, we shared part one of our new “fauxdenza” in the living room made of 3 Akrum wall cabinets from Ikea floating a few inches above the floor.  It was a great solution to a large credenza for hundreds (in some cases, thousands) less.   But the white cabinets alone, left a lot […]

As promised in this pop-up weekend post, I am here to share with you our Ikea haul from Saturday.  We only had a total of 20 minutes to shop (one day, ONE day I will get some quality time with that store) so there was no messing around. I had to stick to my list. But […]

I can’t believe we did it.  We cleaned and organized this mess in less than 24 hours: Wednesday night my mom and I worked until about 10:30pm and were so excited when we quit for the night because you could see the garage floor on one side. Yesterday, our progress went a lot faster thanks […]

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