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Rugging Me the Right Way

May 14, 2012 By Shannah 1 Comment

One of the things I have the hardest time finding that are cute and reasonably priced are rugs…especially outdoor rugs!

I was doing a little web surfing the other day and saw a great solution for finding pretty much any kinds of rug for you home.

Vecco offers a ton of options for creating a completely customized rug that is all your own. In the kit, you get the rug, stencil, paint and sealer. From there, the options are only limited by what you come up with.
I’m a big fan of the “Honey, I’m home”…take a look at some of the options with that one.

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Sprucing Up the Curb {Appeal}

May 8, 2012 By Shannah 9 Comments

I have a black thumb. I pretty much kill just about plant that I work with in our yard. The sole survivor in our house is a Christmas cactus that was a gift from Junior and Stud Muffin when my grandfather died.
Knowing my limits, I tend to focus on other things on the outside of the house like lanterns and wreaths. It’s Spring though so I feel like I have to have some pretty plants around. Enter the $1.25 flowers.

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Basement Reno: Heading to the Loo

May 1, 2012 By Shannah 4 Comments

I know I haven’t posted awhile on what is happening in the basement {the last update was here}. Mathlete has been doing a bunch of work down there though.

Yep, that is a bathroom! Awesome, right?!
Let’s back up a little though. The last time you saw it, that space looked more like this

After talking to the plumber, we decided that it would be best to move some of the existing roughed in plumbing around.

In this picture, I am essentially standing where the toilet will eventually go and straight ahead will be the tub. Speaking of tubs, here is ours!

Opposite from the tub will be a vanity and toilet.

There are two doors…one in from the hallway and one into the bedroom.

Now, we have to schedule the plumber to come in a do a little more work in there. Lots of progress.

Light Me Up

March 20, 2012 By Shannah Leave a Comment

We’ve been super busy in the house…especially the kitchen! {Warning: All this stuff has been happening at night so the pics are less than stellar. I am still learning!)
Our newest update comes in the form of some swanky new lighting. We have a mixture of recessed lights, pendants over the island and a fixture over the breakfast nook. The recessed lights are great but the others needed some attention.
Let’s start with the island. The existing lights had a frosted globe to them where the frosted part was actually coming off!

It didn’t help that they were hung way too low so lots of food debris made them pretty yucky too.
We started by removing those lights and attaching the new pendants.The crazy builders of our house though didn’t make it so easy for us. They had a square junction box where a round one should be.

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Basement Reno: Preventing Plumbing Problems

March 16, 2012 By Shannah 4 Comments

By now, it is no secret we are working on finishing our unfinished basement (see here, here and here for evidence). Mathlete is doing the bulk of the work himself to save money. However, there are a few things that he would rather pay a little more for to make sure it is done exactly right by someone with more extensive knowledge on a subject than he might have.
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Basement Reno: Up Go the Walls

March 13, 2012 By Shannah 3 Comments

Shoved somewhere between dance, dinner club and other errands, we Mathlete managed to make some basement progress. I take partial credit since I was on full time kid duty while Mathlete worked in the basement.

See all those wood beams? Yep, that is framing of a wall. We have wall framing…at least in parts of the basement.

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Make Your Own Jewelry Storage

March 6, 2012 By Shannah 1 Comment

Today I am bringing you a semi-oldie but something I still love to look at each day. I originally shared this over at Literally Inspired but wanted to come back and share it with you here today.

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The Grass is Greener

February 28, 2012 By Shannah 9 Comments

Well, since it is winter, our grass really isn’t that green. But, now a certain room in our house is! Back in January, we talked about our awesome master bedroom redo that was in the works. An extension of that is also making changes in the master bathroom.
One place we find painting supplies and paint for our home remodeling projects is here with Lowes.
Our bathroom was originally about the same color as our dining room

We were taking the color out of the deep, dark reds so we started out this painting date with some good, old primer!

That was after coat one! We did two coats to make sure that red was nice and covered.

Now, we were ready for our color.

It is Pepper Grass by Glidden color matched into Behr Premium paint plus primer. Meet your painter…looks thrilled, right?

I do a lot of things around here but painting walls just isn’t one of them. I have a good reason, though. I am really quite terrible at it.
Mathlete did all of the painting in the room while I took on kid duty and brought up snacks/drinks.

I didn’t get many pictures of the after but here are few. We’ll have more once the drapes are finally done and hung!

Oh, and we tested out paint colors in the bedroom while I had the paint stuff upstairs. Check out the winner {and please excuse the horrible night time photography}: