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Island all done

Island all done

So in January of this year I started updating my island.  And like I said in my previous post it looked good till you saw it from different view. The cabinets on the island were screaming to be painted the same color. The also had wear on them so it wasn’t like I was painting…

Front Porch Problems

Front Porch Problems

Our front porch is large, as in wide. When we bought the house I had asked the sellers for their front porch furniture. There was two sets of chairs and two side tables. They looked okay but soon realized we also have a lot of space on the back porch to fill. So we split…

Re-homing a dresser

This is what our TV stand looked like last week. We’ve had the TV stand since late 2008. It was a Walmart purchase and probably still cost close to $100. I’ve been eyeing TV stands for awhile and the ones I’ve been liking have easily cost anywhere from $200 to $500 dollars. Like the one…

Banister makeover

Banister makeover

I am not the most patient of people (brief pause for laughter from my family), so looking back I wish I would have taken the time to take a lot more photos of the house before we started changing things. The light in the stairwell for instance, it was a weird shape and the gold…

The House We Bought

The House We Bought

Our realtor might have been hesitant to show is this house. We had told him we wanted “move -in ready.” Another friend of mine told me she wouldn’t have bought this house based on the many many projects that needed to be done in this house. However, when we described the location of our house our…