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Yesterday was a pretty monumental day for our guest room and office space in the basement.  We replaced the two outdated lights (that left a lot of dark spots in the room) with five pot lights.  It has made such a difference: Don’t mind our dusty floor–lots of ceiling debris that still needs to get […]

Our bedroom projects have been on hold for a month (I can’t believe it has been a whole month) while we met deadlines for our basement project and hosted our first annual Costume party–which lead to revamping the laundry room.  And now that all of that dust has cleared, we are back to putting our […]

As soon as we started the guest room/office, I started brainstorming what to do about the floors.  And then the room across the hall flooded and that sealed our idea to rip up the old blue carpet and stain the concrete floor.  I was lucky to find this awesome site that gave us a big […]

Chris built me a very large chalkboard (3’x5’6″) in our laundry room so I would have a large canvas for revolving art–drawing, painting, etc. is a pretty big passion of mine.  Every month I will be doing a new drawing.  Even if October is almost over, I didn’t want the chance to pass me by […]

We had a busy weekend.  A few family events mingled with lots of home projects, including the laundry room vanity.  This is what it looked like originally: Removing the wallpaper and painting the room improved things, but the oval mirror that was losing its frame and the worn and stained wood on the bottom had […]

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