Category: At Home

Adding Character to Your Home

10 Builder-Basic Makeovers

Sometimes when I’m watching home improvement shows, I get a little discouraged because the “before” houses all have really great bones. They’re usually older homes in established neighborhoods rather than the typical suburban home with oak kitchen cabinets, beige walls and fiberglass shower stalls. Don’t get me wrong, I love

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Adding Character to Your Home

How to Install a Kid-Friendly Stair Runner

If you’ve been following our stair makeover, you’ve read how I ripped up the builder-basic carpet in a fit of madness then painted the stairs for less than $50. The final step was installing a runner from Sisal Rugs Direct. Here’s everything you need to know about choosing the best

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Adding Character to Your Home

Why Painting My Kitchen Cabinets Set Me Free

When we bought our house two years ago, the kitchen was painted a burnt pumpkin orange and the previous owners had installed a black, ivory and gold backsplash that, though nice, wasn’t what I would have picked.  Everyone who saw the kitchen said it was pretty but it didn’t feel

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Adding Character to Your Home

Painted Stairs for Under $50

The staircase is the first thing you see when you enter our house and when we moved in two years ago, it was carpeted in a builder-basic carpet that wasn’t white or tan or gray. The best way I can describe it is skinned Muppets. Dirty skinned Muppets. Just imagine

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Adding Character to Your Home

Finishing Mom’s Basement Apartment

If you ask me, a door isn’t just a door. Especially if you’ve had one after another closed in your face. These days, a door, THIS door, looks like a fresh start. I found this particular door for $10 at Restore and though right now it doesn’t look like much,

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Adding Character to Your Home

The Time I Ripped the Carpet Up

Friend, I have a confession: This beautiful photo by my good friend, Stacey Reid, though one of my favorites, is not an accurate representation of how I do pregnancy. I thought that by my second pregnancy, I would be a little better at the whole making a human thing. I’d

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