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ORC Week 6 What We Learned About Tiling
If you’ve been following along, week 5 of the Spring 2020 One Room Challenge was cancelled to stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor’s deaths. I took the time off to check my privilege and start the process of learning from and supporting the Black community. This will…
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ORC Week 4 The Pocket Door
We are past the halfway mark of the One Room Challenge Spring 2020 season! I feel like the time is equally dragging and flying by. Which is basically how all time feels during social distancing. This week I’m going to share how we moved a pocket door from our kitchen to the bathroom! It was a huge undertaking and we…
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ORC Week 2 Demo Day
It’s the second week of the Spring 2020 One Room Challenge and this week is all about demo! Maybe it’s just not my thing, but demo day looks way more fun on tv than it is in real life. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVED swinging a hammer into the plastic tiled shower, but overall demo day is just a…
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Olive Green Guest Room Makeover
When Colin and I heard that we would be staying home for the foreseeable future, we decided to tackle some easy house projects. The first of which is our guest room redesign! We started this project about a month ago and have slowly been getting pieces done during our weekends at home. This was a great project to work on…
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Rumpus Room Basement Reveal!
It’s finally here! We have been updating our basement for 8 weeks now and I’m so so so excited (and relieved) to share our rumpus room basement reveal. Since this was our first big project in the new house, it served as a great learning experience! Eventually I will share the cost breakdown and source list for everything in the…
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DIY Framed Vintage Map
Do you have an old map from a place that is close to your heart? Or maybe it’s just a cool looking map and you want to show it off. Either way, this DIY framed vintage map project is perfect for you! This project was a bit of an accident. I have been keeping a map of Rome since I…
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Reupholstering Rattan Chairs
I should start by stating that I’m using the word “reupholster” very liberally in this post. No sewing machines were used in this project, so if you’re like me and don’t know how to sew, you can totally do this!! If you do know how to sew, please don’t get offended by my use of the word. Today I am…
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Rental Bathroom Upgrade Part 2
Hello again! I’m back!! Just a casual 3 month hiatus from doing anything blog-related. There were a few reasons for this – 1. I was uninspired and suffered some post-holiday blues. 2. I changed my blog name and in the process, lost my website for about a month (very upsetting/frustrating). 3. I got a little defeated by the social media…
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DIY Backyard Mural
When your “backyard” has an ugly spray painted wall, the only option is to repaint it. I use the word backyard loosely because this was actually more of a patio in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia. And it needed help. Lots of help. Enter DIY backyard mural.
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Entryway Table Revamp
My house in Philadelphia had a random assortment of things in the basement that had been left behind by previous tenants. The only thing worth climbing through cobwebs for was an entryway table. It was in pretty bad shape from years of rotting in a damp basement, but I saw the potential! Scroll down to find out more about this…
