dining room
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Spring touches
I love the clean feeling of spring. Everything is coming alive, we clean out the yard, we clean our houses. As spring approaches I love putting away the heavy throws, cozy pillows, and all the heavy winter decor. When I decorate and change a room for each season, I choose small things to change and refresh. This year I decided that I would change up some pillows on my family room couch to add a clean new look. I found a tutorial here online on how to make envelope pillows and I got some fabric and went for it. Wow…just that little bit really gave my room a new, clean…
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Fall touches – my dining room
My dining room is a fun room to decorate. I love adding touches of the season to that room because that is where we eat every night, and we can enjoy the space. I again went very simple this year. I wanted the room to have the feeling of fall, but not just be a fall room. So here are some fun touches I added this year to my space. I added some fall dishes and pumpkins to the inside of my hutch and added some pumpkins on my small cabinet and dining room table. I love adding pumpkins to the tops of candle sticks to add some height and…
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Touches of spring…the dining room
I am so excited for spring. It is like someone switched a light switch around here. It went from snowy and cold to sunny and beautiful in a matter of a week. I am having fun adding some touches of spring to my home. The first room I started with was the dining room. I recently finished a cabinet, and I was excited to accessorize it. I got in the mood to change things around one sunny afternoon, but I didn’t want to go to the store to find things. Shocking, I know. So…I did the next best thing and went shopping in my home. I had a wire basket…
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How to make something from nothing
I finished my console and I am so excited to share the entire process. I love looking up paint tutorials and learning different ways to paint furniture. Even though I learn about different techniques and ways to paint, I consistently go back to the way I have been painting furniture and cabinets for years. This way works for me, I love the finish, and it holds up well. So here is the cabinet that I bought a couple of weeks ago. It was dated, and dirty! I got it for a killer price and originally brought it home to paint and sell it. I put it in the garage to prep…
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A fun Friday find
So I have this spot on my dining room wall. I have been thinking now for more than a year what to put there and I finally came up with something. A map. I was shopping at my favorite antique store and found some old maps they were selling, and I fell in love with them. The only problem was that they were large. Larger than my space could take. Still, I loved the idea of it, so I searched online and found an antique map that was the right size for my wall. I found a store from pinterest that carried old maps but the price was pretty high. So I decided…
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Christmas in the Dining room
The dining room had to have been one of my favorite rooms to decorate this season. I painted the room red, and it is the perfect backdrop for Christmas. I added a simple centerpiece for the dining room table from things I had hanging around the house. I found these candle sticks a few years back in the garden department at Fred Meyer. They have become one of my favorite accessories to display candles and other things. I had a glass conch which I filled with red ornaments from the dollar store, and put my large green apple for a fun pop of green. In my hutch I added some…
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Molding…tons of molding!
There has been a lot of work going on in our home the past few weeks. Lots and lots of painting! I love adding wainscoting to a room, but it is a lot of work. Cutting, sanding, caulking, priming, and painting two coats of white. But it is worth it! Here is a peek of how some of the rooms are coming along. Here is the family room the day we moved in. I am so so so over brown! We took out the harth and added some molding around the fireplace. We spray painted the brass grills on the fireplace and painted the whole wall white. This is our…
