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Wednesday night, we stayed up late and put all of our new hardware on the newly painted cabinets. A lot of our old knobs were bent or broken so we gave them to my parents since they don’t have hardware on their cabinets now and have about half as many cabinets as we have so […]

This weekend, we started painting our cabinets in the kitchen. The goal was to get all the uppers painted, but we only got as far as priming them because we decided to add another spur-of-the-moment project while we’re working in here. Our over-the-range microwave has been driving us crazy since we moved in. It is so low. […]

DIY Faux Soapstone Countertops

We’re diving head first into updating our current kitchen!! After we recently finished the floors, our cabinets are looking more orange than ever and we left a disposable table cloth on our island in place of a countertop. Eeeks. Although we are planning a full kitchen remodel next year (??), painting our cabinets is an […]

Chris Loves Julia / Faux Wood Tile: Nordic Brown From The Tile Shop

We’re so excited to share with you our finished floors today! Replacing almost all of the flooring on our main floor (we opted out of doing our master bath since we’ll be tackling a full renovation in there next year) was daunting beforehand, a lot of work during, but now we’re on the other side […]

Right now we’re in the “what were we thinking?!” phase with this project. We just started week 4 of what we’re calling “tilemageddon” and we haven’t even started laying tile yet. We finished up laying a second subfloor of OSB last week, and this week the concrete board is going down. It’s a  back-breaking long […]

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