Our House Tour

 I've decided to seat everything inward 1 identify in addition to organize my projects room yesteryear room! Hopefully, this volition assist you lot notice what you're looking for or fifty-fifty demo you lot some materials you lot may create got missed along the way!

Welcome to our solid tour!!

As I mentioned here, nosotros bought this solid a yr later on nosotros got married. We were looking for a new house, but 1 fateful twenty-four hr stream piece driving around nosotros came across a hot mess of a 1970's fixer-upper. I knew it was going to live on our solid from the commencement instant I set eyes on it. It wasn't much to await at, but all I saw was a smorgasbord of potential. It was a lot of solid for a neat price, in addition to it had in addition to therefore much grapheme but waiting to live on unleashed.

Over the class of the adjacent three years, nosotros transformed our solid from drab to fab! 

It was a ton of work, but nosotros did 100% of it ourselves. I had never even held a paintbrush earlier nosotros bought this house, but I decided to instruct myself equally I went. There were tons of mess-ups along the way...mistakes, failures, in addition to full general debauchery. But, over time, this solid has decease a habitation that I genuinely love.

Most of our journeying has been documented inward this blog, in addition to the solid has come upward a actually long means since nosotros commencement began. Below, you lot volition notice links to the posts close each room. Feel complimentary to dig around, in addition to encounter how each room has evolved over time. 

Enjoy!

Posts close our kitchen:

Kitchen Progress Report

Kitchen Renovation: Chalkboard Cabinets

How To Paint Tile

Budget Makeover Ideas!

Posts close our main bedroom:

Renovation: earlier & after

How To Paint Furniture

Dresser Makeover

DIY Striped Bench

Budget Bedroom Ideas

DIY Headboard

Sequin Art

$5 Chandelier

Decor Transitions

Vanity

Upholstery Tips

Posts close our office:

Office Makeover: earlier & after

Gallery Wall Tutorial

Chalkboard File Cabinet

Posts close our invitee bathroom:

Guest Bath Makeover: earlier & after

How To Paint Stripes

Posts close our main bathroom:

Master Bath Makeover: earlier & after

Budget Bathroom Decor Ideas

Post close the invitee bedroom:

Guest Bedroom Makeover: Neutral

Guest Bedroom Makeover: Stripes

The Sharpie Pillow

Posts close our living room, dining room, in addition to entryway:

Living & Dining Renovation: earlier & after

Fave Living Room Design So Far

Entryway Renovation: earlier & after

My Struggle With This Space: ii Years Of Design Flops

Media Console

Living Room Art

Antler Art

Painted Dining Table

Thank you lot for stopping yesteryear to cheque out our home. 
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How To Make Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Pillow With Glue

You guys know I direct maintain never been able to main my sewing machine. And non for lack of trying. (Okay, fine, I didn't attempt rattling hard as well as pretty much gave upwardly at the get-go sign of difficulty.) But, since I know I'm non solitary inwards this struggle, I decided to portion how I brand most of my pillows...without a sewing machine. 

It's a beautiful thing.

A fiddling piece ago, I came across some cloth gum called Unique Stitch as well as decided to give it a try, figuring cipher could last worse than fumbling some alongside a bobbin for an hour.

And every bit it turns out, this materials is great. I've tried cloth gum before, but it never delivered as well as ordinarily left me wanting my $5 back. This materials is different. It totally delivered. You tin dismiss fifty-fifty launder your pillow covers later using this materials on them, as well as it however holds strong. It takes a fiddling longer to dry out than some of the other cloth glues, but the terminate termination is much better. You tin dismiss uncovering Unique Stitch at most arts and crafts stores or online here (amazon affiliate link).

I ended upwardly making a bunch of dissimilar pillows, some for the invitee sleeping accommodation I'll portion adjacent week, as well as some for the living room. I'm pretty happy alongside how they turned out.

Cost me near $3 a pillow.

One meg dollars saved.

So, here's a quick pillow tutorial.

You need fabric. I was able to instruct 2 pillows out of 1 yard of fabric, as well as thus purchase accordingly.

You too need pair of scissors as well as of course, the cloth glue.

To brand an envelope pillow, y'all need to cutting three pieces of fabric. I cutting 1 20x20 inch slice as well as ii 20x15 inch pieces.

The ii 20x15 inch panels combine to brand the backside of the pillow, overlapping slightly inwards the center, alongside an opening inwards the centre (where the greenish arrows are) that the pillow goes into. 

Here's a diagram to demo y'all how it works.

To get together your pillow, house the ii 20x15 panels on top of the 20x20, matching upwardly the numbers inwards the diagram. 
The dark arrows demo y'all where to gum the cloth to attach the panels to 1 another. 
I chose to run a strip of gum along the border on the ii 20x15 panels where the greenish arrows are as well as crimp the cloth over as well as thus that they hold back finished as well as and thus that I didn't direct maintain whatsoever raw edges of my cloth showing. Also, since y'all are assembling this pillow within out, lay the cloth alongside the impress facing inward.

When the pillow is assembled, the ii 20x15 panels terminate upwardly where the pillow opens inwards the back, slightly overlapping.  This is what the dorsum of your pillow volition hold back like. 

(It functions but similar a touchstone sham pillowcase, as well as y'all tin dismiss take away it to launder it.)

Once you've glued your pillow encompass together, let it to dry out overnight. Once it's dry, y'all tin dismiss plow your pillow encompass right-side-out as well as materials your pillow inwards the opening. I similar to utilization downwards option pillow inserts because they create total the covers out actually nicely.

And that's all at that topographic point is to it!
Thanks for beingness here!
'Til adjacent time,

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Decorating Tips: How to Combine Pattern

If you lot saw my DIY gum pillows yesterday, you lot may own got noticed that they were kinda colorful. I know this shocked quite a few of you, every bit this is a amount deviation from my commons beige-obsession. I've come upwards to a realization. I demand a popular of color or two. I mean value I've avoided color inwards our house for thence long because I only didn't know how to acquire inwards expect good. I'm learning every bit I go, in addition to sometimes I demand a minimum of 10 decorating failures earlier I succeed. As fourth dimension has passed I've slow learned to comprise color into my decor. Slowly.

And my fevah for color solely grows stronger. 

My prescription for cowbell only isn't helping.

I've been experimenting over the past times month with how to brand multiple colors/patterns operate amongst our house. I've been playing around amongst fabrics in addition to I've been doing lots of researching online. I idea I would portion my findings amongst you lot because I happened across some actually helpful nuggets of information along the means in addition to I know you lot volition bask them, too. 

Here's the deal.

I went to the nearest cloth shop in addition to took pictures of dissimilar fabrics thence that I would own got some examples to demo you. I mean value I took pictures of l bolts of fabric. And I mean value the employees idea I was some sort of crazy cloth paparazzo.

If you lot are wanting to know the information on whatsoever of these fabrics, you lot tin shipping away abide by them at Joann's fabric. 

Here's what I've learned thence far virtually adding pops of color & designing to your decor. Let's comprehend the basics first, in addition to and then we'll expect at pretty fabric.

Pick 3

Three is the magic number. (One is the loneliest.) 

Everything looks ameliorate inwards groups of three, in addition to designing is no exception. I tested this out myself, in addition to it's thence true. 2 patterns expect great, but 3 patterns combined successfully volition modify your life. (If your life revolves around fabric. And whose doesn't?)

Vary the scale

The commutation to combining patterns is varying the scale. Vary the scale of your patterns from minor to large. For example, selection a large scale cloth for designing 1. For designing 2, selection a cloth that is one-half the scale. Then for cloth 3, you lot tin shipping away purpose either scale, but mix the colors.

Vary the colors

Pick 2-3 colors. Try limiting the color on cloth 1 and/or cloth 2 in addition to and then combining all the colors on cloth 3. This ties everything together. 

Add solids & texture

Adding a venture or textured cloth into the mix volition also assist convey everything together. For solids, selection i of the colors inwards your patterns that you lot love. You tin shipping away accept it i stride farther past times picking a textured venture fabric. For example, if your patterns own got an ivory background, endeavour adding a soft, woven ivory pillow to the mix. 

Use friendly fabrics

This is my favorite tip, in addition to the i I had the most fun playing amongst in addition to learning about. Apparently in that location are fabrics that only inherently expect dandy together....they're cloth friends. Who knew?

I tested out this theory at the cloth store, in addition to it's my favorite affair ever.

Here are some examples of fabrics that acquire good together.

1. Damask, Polka Dots, in addition to Chevron

2. Floral, Ikat, in addition to Plaid

3. Toile, Geometric, in addition to Stripes

4. Geometric, Paisley, in addition to Solid

5. Stripes in addition to 2 Ikats of dissimilar scale

6. Geometric, venture texture, in addition to floral

7. Floral, Stripes, and Houndstooth 

8. Geometric, Floral, in addition to Chevron

9. Floral, Stripes, in addition to Damask

Isn't that thence cool? I dearest having a listing of things that operate together when I acquire to selection out fabrics. 

So, what's your fave?

Can you lot approximate which i I'm obsessed with?

Don't forget to pivot this post thence you'll own got it on your adjacent run to the cloth store!

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10 Ways To Organize Your Life

Hey guys. So, today I'm sharing how I organize our entire solid on a budget. These ideas don't demand that you lot run out too purchase a ane grand m containers too simply add together to the clutter. Instead, most of these ideas involve repurposing things you lot already receive got too truly reducing the clutter simply about your home. 

Because who doesn't dearest the feeling of beingness organized too saving money?
Nobody. That's who.

Let's larn started!

#1. Organize your cupboard alongside stuff you lot already have.

For nigh $50, I organized our entire closet. It involved a piffling aqua wall paint, some silvery spray pigment (on a junky quondam shoe rack), too some vintage mirrored trays (found at a thrift store).

Read nigh the cupboard makeover here

#2. Upgrade your hangers alongside some modern podge too spray paint.

 Full tutorial here.

#3. Hang your pots too pans. 

We receive got a tiny piffling kitchen, too then I seek truly difficult to maximize every foursquare inch. One of the ways I did this was yesteryear hanging a pot rack from the ceiling too then that our pots too pans didn't receive got upwards our express cabinet space.

#4. Upgrade your outdated kitchen gear alongside some paint. 

I upgraded our quondam wooden silverware organizer...

And our quondam wooden knife block. All it took was some blueish pigment too a stencil of our initial. 

Tutorial here.

#5. Paint the interiors of your kitchen cabinet doors alongside some chalkboard paint.

More info here.

#6. Organize your spices.

 I used some basic drinking glass spice jars, made my ain labels, too stuck them inward a crystal bowl I establish at the thrift store.

#7. Organize your beauty products.

In ane of our linen closets, I purpose some dollar shop bins (that I painted labels on alongside chalkboard paint) to organize my extra beauty products.

I purpose some elementary dollar shop vases to solid nail polish.

And I purpose some thrift shop bowls to shop my makeup on my vanity table.

#8. Make your ain jewelry organizer.

I took the frame from an quondam mirror, taped it off alongside some painter's tape, too spray painted some stripes on it. Then, I added a corkboard to the back, some nailheads, too created my ain jewelry organizer.

Tutorial here.

And when I don't experience similar hanging my jewelry up, I simply toss it on a mirrored tray I establish at the thrift store.

 #9. Update an quondam filing cabinet alongside spray paint.
I establish an quondam filing cabinet on the side of the road, spray painted it glossy dark too added some chalkboard labels.
More information here.

I also purpose random containers to solid my pens, similar the spray painted duck (above) too the aureate thrift shop mug (below).
Take the component tour here.

#10. Organize your stuff inward a shoebox.

I receive got tons of stuff remnants from redoing quondam chairs too making pillows, etc. I crease the remnants over a slice of cardboard too shop them inward quondam shoe boxes that I've spray painted white too labeled alongside a sharpie.

And those are my overstep 10 ways I proceed our solid organize for cheap! Thanks for beingness here, ya'll. Hope you lot establish something somewhere inward this post that volition assistance you lot salvage a piffling coin too brand life a piffling easier!

'Til adjacent time,

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