Category: Adding Character to Your Home

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Adding Character to Your Home

DIY Planked Wall — Tongue and Groove Feature Wall

My brother A.J. is the bomb. This past week he helped me design and create a tongue and groove background wall in the garage for many of the photos I take. I needed mine as a background, but I think making a feature/accent wall in your home is a great

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Adding Character to Your Home

Oops, I Did it Again!

Oh my, friends. I have gone and started way too many projects at once. During cold and flu season. Right before the holidays. With a one and four-year-old in the house! What was I thinking?! I wasn’t. I was all hopped up on Fixer Upper reruns I watched while I

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Adding Character to Your Home

Finding Your Style When You’re Broke

This time last year, I was sitting on the floor nursing a fussy newborn, hot gluing strips of drop cloth to the bottom of Ikea dishtowels to make my own cafe curtains for the kitchen. I was on empty in every sense of the word; no time, no sleep, no

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Adding Character to Your Home

Chalk Painted Kitchen Cabinets: 2 Years Later

It’s been two years since I chalk painted our kitchen cabinets. Here’s the top 10 questions I get about my chalk painted kitchen cabinets: 1. What did you use? Originally, I used Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Old White on the uppers and Duck Egg Blue on the lower cabinets.

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Adding Character to Your Home

Easy Ceiling Fan Makeovers

I am always flirting with the idea of taking the ceiling fans down to swap them out for pretty lighting. Light fixtures are my weakness. Jewelry…meh. A pretty chandelier…swoooooon. But then, I’m far too Southern-at-heart practical to remove a ceiling fan and I’m fairly confident that would be the nail

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