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Turning A Homework Room into A Sweet Retreat

March 23, 2015 - 8 Comments

During the month of March, our long-time partner, Ace Hardware is helping consumers discover a new love for color through a month-long interactive paint experience called 31 Days of Color. Every day unveils a new “Color of the Day” selected …

DIY, Projects

How to Patch Drywall like a girl, Our Freshly Painted Room + $100 to Ace!

February 27, 2015 - 24 Comments

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 …

DIY, Inspiration

The Prettiest Blue Paint for an Exterior + A Giveaway!

November 20, 2014 - 24 Comments

Our backyard neighbor’s house is the most beautiful blue. One of the first times we met them, I told them how much I loved the color of their house and how it reminded me of the east coast, where I …

DIY

Wallpaper!! + $100 Ace Giveaway

October 29, 2014 - 199 Comments

We got the wallpaper in the entry up and it is dreamy and just what we hoped! It actually made the area look bigger (hard to portray in photos–you really must stop by) and so much more interesting. As a …

Tools

A Colossal Garage Upgrade (and $100!)

August 26, 2014 - 13 Comments

It’s been a busy year, full of projects and…boxes, apparently. Last month, my mom and I tackled our garage that has been holding a lot of evidence of the past few months–all of which had been haunting me. It only …

DIY

TIME is All You Need + $200 To Ace!

August 4, 2014 - 322 Comments

One of our favorite sponsors, Ace Hardware, recently ranked “Highest in Customer Satisfaction with Home Improvement Retail Stores” for the eighth year in a row by J.D. Power*! Ace is literally the only hardware store within a 30 minute drive–and …

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Wood Dipped Bench + $100 Giveaway!

July 1, 2014 - 10 Comments

We got this bench a while ago, and refinished it beautifully and it sat in our last home just fine. And then we moved here and somehow it got put outside one day and then it just stayed there day …

DIY

Our Kitchen Cabinet Paint Colors

May 15, 2014 - 23 Comments

Part of my Ace Hardware Blogger duties this month included checking out their new paint studio–which is very boutique like with the slide out drawers of paint chips. Classy!–and trying out their new line of Valspar Optimus line they started …

DIY

DIY Faux Soapstone Countertop

April 29, 2014 - 78 Comments

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 …

DIY

Removing Grout Haze the Easy Way

April 1, 2014 - 36 Comments

Although we showed you the “finished” floors in yesterday’s post, there is one part of the process that we haven’t covered–grout! In my post about Tips for Achieving Realistic Faux Wood Tile, I mentioned that “opting for a grout color a shade …

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