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Realistic Fake Greens

Realistic Fake Greens

Happy branch cutting season to you and yours! It’s officially spring which means it should be getting easier to find some branches in your yard to cut and bring inside. But what if you don’t have a yard, or you don’t want to cut four big branches off...
How We Saved Six Figures on Our Kitchen: Part 4

How We Saved Six Figures on Our Kitchen: Part 4

painted! This is the final installment of our kitchen renovation (for now!). You can read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here. We’ve been slowly making changes to our kitchen since we moved in May. We decided to keep the cabinets, appliances and layout and...
Surface Styling School

Surface Styling School

In case you missed it, here’s the link to watch last week’s Surface Styling School Part 1…. What about Part 2? Yep! There’s a Part 2! I hired a video crew to come to my house for a few days and we filmed the second half of the class in my home....
How We Saved Six Figures on Our Kitchen: Part 2

How We Saved Six Figures on Our Kitchen: Part 2

Continued from last week, read part one here… We had just received our quote for new cabinets and then got the news that our appliances would be a year to a year and a half before we could expect delivery. The new appliances would have included a panel ready...
How We Saved Six Figures on our Kitchen: Part 1

How We Saved Six Figures on our Kitchen: Part 1

When we first looked at this house, I was pleasantly surprised with the kitchen. It wasn’t awful at all. The only weird part was the shape of the island that had an angle cut on the front and back and that it was two heights: counter height for the cooktop, bar...