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A Custom Fluted Vanity: One Room Challenge Week 7

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From the beginning of this project, I knew we would be making a vanity for the hall bath. While the space we had available for the vanity wasn't necessarily odd, it wasn't a typical standard size. And I'm all about maximizing storage in small spaces, so every inch counts. Once I convinced Andrew there weren't any good options in a reasonable price range online or from the home improvement stores, he agreed to make one. We are into week 7 of the One Room Challenge, which means, theoretically I'll be posting the reveal photos of our hall bath next week.…

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Another Wood Bleaching Tutorial – One Room Challenge Week 7

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So, this was supposed to be a post about the new nightstand bases we built. With the beautiful cane detail, light wood tones, and ample storage. This is not that post. Because, sometimes in DIY, things don't always go as planned. With only two weeks left, as I approached Andrew about building said bases, he wasn't very enthused. At this point, we essentially had two weekends to build them, and that would be a stretch. If I'm honest, I probably underestimated the time it would take to compete this project. Especially since I wanted to add caning - a material…

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Modern Dresser Makeover – One Room Challenge Week 3

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I am so excited to be sharing this furniture makeover with you today. I've been dreaming up this piece since we switched bedrooms with our kiddos 5 months ago (more on that here). There were definitely moments in this process where I was ready to throw in the towel and give up. But instead, I persevered through this modern dresser makeover and ended up with this beautiful dresser which I love, for less than $215 bucks! Below you can see what the dresser looked like when my friend asked if we wanted it for one of our projects. And since…

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modern dresser makeover progress photo
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Primary Bedroom Design Ideas: One Room Challenge Week 2

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Its been a whirlwind week participating in my first One Room Challenge! Although I don't have much physical progress to show you, I've made a few decisions, narrowed down a few choices, and finalized some design elements, and I'm here to share my bedroom design ideas with you today! To recap, I chose to focus on my primary bedroom design for this One Room Challenge (you can read my week 1 post here). This room was previously our 4 and 6 year olds' room so its basically a blank slate. I plan to reuse our metal headboard and the curtains,…

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Primary Bedroom Design – One Room Challenge Week 1

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After seeing many people online (aka instagram) participate in the BGH One Room Challenge, I've decided to participate too this fall! For week 1, I'm sharing my primary bedroom design plan, as it stands right now. At the beginning of May, Andrew and I had this crazy idea to switch rooms with our two older kids. To recap, we have 5 members in our family and 3 bedrooms in our house. Our two oldest children, who are 6 and 4 years old, share a room and our youngest daughter sleeps in the 3rd bedroom, our nursery. Now, before you label…

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Small bathroom with white shiplap walls, and modern industrial vanity.
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Building a Modern Industrial Bathroom Vanity

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Today, I'm excited to share a DIY project we completed last year. I know, I know, it's been 9 months since 'last year.' But with contractor lead times being what they are now, it took much longer than expected for this modern industrial bathroom vanity to make it into its home. Andrew's parents, my in-laws, recently completed a gut renovation of their primary bathroom. While in the design phase, they consulted us and asked if we could build a custom bathroom vanity to fit their narrow space. Sound familiar? We also built this vanity last year for Andrew's brother who…

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Yellow pine boards, one lighter, and less yellow in color than the other due to wood bleaching.
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How To Bleach Wood

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Last month I shared our DIY herringbone barn door and I mentioned how I bleached some of the yellow pine wood. Yellow pine is a very affordable wood option, but it can be a little too, well, yellow. Wood bleaching gave my door a much more streamlined look. So, today I'm sharing my technique and all the steps I used to complete the look. I was surprised by how easy it was! My main reason I tried this method was because I used two different wood types for my barn door project. The barn door frame was constructed with a…

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Herringbone barn door used for a hallway opening.
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How We Built a Herringbone Barn Door

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The herringbone barn door is finally finished! We started this project at the end of February and here we are in mid-June and I can say we are 99% done. Okay, so it still could use a door handle. But you guys, I couldn't wait to share this project with you. And technically, it functions just fine without a handle, but it will most certainly look better with one. I ordered a handle for the door just before writing this post, so it should be here by the time you are reading this. I will surely update you if its…

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How I Updated My Kitchen Table

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A few months back, I shared how I refreshed my kitchen chairs with a little bit of elbow grease and my favorite paint sprayer, and lets just say it snowballed into a 'if you give a mouse a cookie' kind of situation. See, once I painted the chairs black, the table looked off. When there were multiple chair colors next to the dark stained table with yellow legs, it kind of gave off an eclectic vibe, but once the chairs were united in black, the table fell a little flat. So, I did what any person does these days and…

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How to DIY a Plant Stand

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I recently started aspiring to become a plant lady. There, I said it. Its been a slow start though. Currently, I have a few succulents, one fern that seems to dislike me, and a very health pothos that loves my laundry room. And this week, a friend gave me a teeny tiny fiddle leaf fig that she propagated from her lovely and mature fiddle that lives in her plant haven of a living room. Naturally, I want this fiddle leaf fig to blossom and grow into a mature tree, so what better place to start than to build it a…

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