Category: Adding Character to Your Home

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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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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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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