Month: February 2020

Our House

Throwback Thursday: The Bathroom (Part 1)

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Hi Y'all! I'm back for another Throwback Thursday and this week I'm sharing our bathroom renovations. This will be a two-part post; the first part will be the bathroom as we originally renovated it in 2012/2013 and the second part will be the updates we made to it in 2018. But let's start with the OG bathroom. Now, this wasn't the original original bathroom that was built with the house - that was replaced with what you see below, probably in the '80s (I'm convinced this is worse than what it would have looked like in the '50s). Here's what…

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Furniture

Weekend Update

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I'm trying a new type of post and I'm calling it my Weekend Update, so when you're done reading, let me know if you like it. Andrew and I were out of town last weekend (first trip away from our youngest child, her and I both did fine) with some friends, so this weekend we had a few projects to tackle. First up was our front deck. Every couple of years it needs a new coat of deck stain. We've only re-stain/sealed it once since we built it in 2014. It was looking weathered and my father-in-law offered to help…

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Our House

Throwback Thursday: The Laundry Suite

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Howdy! Today I'm sharing the renovations we made to our laundry suite. We call this room the laundry suite because at almost 100 square feet, its proportion to our total square footage (1,273) is highly unusual. Most people with a house our size are lucky to have a laundry closet, much less an actual room that works as hard as ours. But let's start with the what the laundry suite looked like when we bought our house. It had a "walk-in" pantry (as seen on the right, above) and a cabinet with a *convenient* folding surface. On the opposite wall,…

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Favorites

My Favorites: In the Laundry Room

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How many loads of laundry do you do a week? With 3 kids and a husband, I'm sure you can imagine the amount of time I spend in my laundry room, so today I'm sharing my tried-and-trues that make laundry day(s), dare I say, enjoyable (okay, maybe just tolerable). Okay, yes, everyone has hangers (I hope). But, have you tried having all the same hangers? There's nothing that makes your closet or laundry hanging space look more organized than unifying your hangers. I use this style, in white, for the majority of my clothes, but pick a style and color…

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Our House

Throwback Thursday: The Master Bedroom

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Hi y'all! This week I'm sharing the renovations we made to our master bedroom (Bedroom 1 on the floorplan). There's really nothing that makes this bedroom the master compared to the other bedrooms, except that it's the largest bedroom in our house. There is no ensuite bathroom (remember, we only have 1 bathroom total) and the closet in this room is the exact same size as the closet in bedroom 2 (both of which are smaller than the nursery closet). The master bedroom is in the front of the house, and it has 3 windows, so it gets tons of…

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Money & Finances

My 100-day Challenge: January Update

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2020 - New year, new you. Right? Well, I started off this year with a bang! A 100-day challenge to be precise. Back in the fall of 2019 I read this book about a spending fast, this book about living with less, and listened to this podcast episode about saving to make work optional. My gut was telling me that a spending fast was in my future but I didn't know what it would look like yet. Then I listened to this podcast episode about a 100-day challenge (completely unrelated to money, I might add) and the pieces started to…

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