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The Painting Projects we tackled over the break

January 6, 2021 - 10 Comments

One of my Christmas presents this year was getting our ceilings painted (finally!) in the entry and all down the hallways. All of the ceilings and walls in our home were painted a gray color (before we bought the home) …

DIY, Mood Board

The Playroom Makeover has begun + Mood board!!!

August 6, 2020 - 50 Comments

Excited to be back from a long weekend with family (and then a days of server issues! blergh!). We jumped right into a playroom makeover and I’m so excited about this direction. “Playroom” is a generous term, it’s more of …

DIY, Projects

Our Almost-Black Painted Playset!

July 30, 2020 - 39 Comments

This week, we worked on a 3-day playset refresh in our backyard and we’re all so excited with how it turned out. Our girls are always playing on this playset that was left here (and possibly built by) the previous owners. We …

Inspiration

12 Dark Exterior Paint Colors We’re Loving–In Action!

July 28, 2020 - 29 Comments

We’re very close to choosing an exterior paint color. We have gone from wanting something charcoal to deep black and back to charcoal again. We’re going to do a trial run of one of these colors today! But I couldn’t …

DIY

Painting the Guest Room Dark + My Paint Formula for Walls and Trim!

July 27, 2020 - 111 Comments

Last weekend, we painted the guest room a dark, inky charcoal–Farrow & Ball’s Downpipe (this time we had it color matched at Sherwin Williams in an eggshell finish). I wanted to go for something dark in a blueish tone so …

DIY, Inspiration

Painting the Music Room + Jewel Toned Inspiration

June 30, 2020 - 53 Comments

We had a different project scheduled for this week, but the weather is so crappy (spoiler alert: it was an outdoor project) that we couldn’t carry it out. But I was so excited to check something off the list that …

DIY, Projects

Our Freshly Painted Master Bedroom with Contrast Trim!

January 16, 2020 - 57 Comments

This post is sponsored by Lowe’s Our bedroom had some WORK done over the past couple months. It was a lot! Like, at one point, the room had no walls and no ceiling because we ripped the tray ceiling out …

Design, Inspiration

10 Really Amazing Blue-Gray Paint Colors in action

August 29, 2019 - 40 Comments

I feel like gray paint colors were so incredibly overused a few years ago, but then a lot of people accidentally chose cool grays to paint entire rooms and instead of a trendy living room, they got a nursery and …

DIY

HOW TO PAINT YOUR CABINETS IN A WEEKEND (WITHOUT SANDING THEM)

August 13, 2019 - 283 Comments

This post is sponsored by Lowe’s Our week-long phase 1 kitchen refresh is all but done now. The most dramatic change besides rearranging the cabinets (did you even know you could do that?) was painting the cabinets this past weekend. …

DIY

Rearranging the Kitchen Cabinets and Deciding on a Paint Color!

August 5, 2019 - 87 Comments

Last week we introduced our phase 1 kitchen renovation and we wasted no time diving in. Our first item of business was removing cabinetry and trim that we really didn’t need to open up the kitchen a little bit and …

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