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ORC Week 1 Design Plan for a Mid Century Bathroom
What is the One Room Challenge? The One Room Challenge is a design event that happens every Spring and Fall. 20 featured designers are chosen each season to transform a room and share their progress every week. In addition to the featured designers, anyone with a blog or Instagram (ME! Or you too!) can participate. The next few weeks will…
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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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What We’re Cooking During Social Distancing
Hello, friends! I hope you are all staying safe and healthy this week. Colin and I are very fortunate to be working from home and we are so grateful to all those who are working to make sure our country has basic necessities, as well as every healthcare worker fighting this virus. Thank you, thank you, thank you. How are…
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Olive Green Guest Room Makeover Vision Board
I just signed up for the Spring 2020 One Room Challenge, so today I have a couple vision boards for our olive green guest room makeover! We originally planned to renovate our master bathroom, but with the state of our world right now, we decided that a smaller scale project is a better idea. Social distancing means not calling a…
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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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Living Room Mood Board with Mid Century Flair
Creating a living room mood board has not been an easy task. It’s the first room you see when you walk in the front door. It’s the room that we will likely use most often. And it only has 1 wall. I love the openness and the picture window, but designing an open concept room is new for me! All…
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2020 House Projects List
Today I’m sharing our massive 2020 house projects list in hopes that it will give you some inspiration or something to laugh at. Because this list is steeeeeep and NOT cheap. Do we think all these projects will be completed in 2020? Probably not. But it gives us something to reach for- and that’s important! First off, I want to…
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Design Inspiration for a Mamie Pink Bathroom
Our 1958 ranch house came complete with a Mamie pink bathroom. What is a Mamie pink bathroom you ask? Head on over to Save the Pink Bathrooms to find out more about this popular mid century design choice. While it may have been tre chic in 1958, it looks grimy now. Are you stuck with a blah pink bathroom too?…
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Options for DIY Window Treatments
In today’s installment of “Bridget learns the real price of home remodeling,” we are talking window treatments. More specifically, curtains, because we already forked out a ton of money for shades throughout the house. But guess what friends?! Windows also need curtains. And guess what else?! Curtains are very expensive. So today I am going over some “lower cost” budget…
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How to Make Wood Paneling Work
Happy New Year, everyone! We’ve had a busy few weeks at the new house between the holidays and projects. I’ll get into the details later, but now that the major issues are addressed, we get to start on a fun project!! Updating the basement is our first project because we currently don’t use the space. Keep reading to see design…
