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Our House: These Chalkboard Labels Aren’t What You Think They Are
We just finished the wet bar in the family room at ‘Our House’, and I’ve had a lot of fun with the accessories. I already showed you how I installed the shelf with a vintage candy box and soda pop collection above the counter. (if you missed that, click here)
So for on the counter, I wanted just a few cute things, that I didn’t have to spend a bunch of money or time on. When I saw these retro jars at Target the other day, I thought, ‘perfect!’
This is what they looked like before the labels: click here to read the rest of the story…
Someone Else’s House… Antique Craftsman Style Home’s Dining Room ReDo
The dining room in this antique craftsman is now gorgeous!
This is the dining room that belongs to the young couple of the home which I’ve already shown you the Master Bedroom, the Anthropologie Styled Bathroom, the Creatively Numbered Stairway, with the Amazing Closet Transformation, the Amazing DIY Wall Pot Rack, the Living Room Fireplace, with Horse Inspired Details, and now here is the before and after of this now gorgeous dining room.
The dining room has through the decades click here to read the rest of the story…
Spring Fling Must-Haves
Disclosure: Post and giveaway sponsored by Central Garden & Pet, but all opinions are my own. Please see below for additional disclosure.
This giveaway ends on May 19th, 2013.
Whoo-Hoo!!! This is the first in a 4 part series featuring two great things…
and…. giveaways…
A total of 4 separate $25 American Express gift card giveaways!!!
Yay!! All you have to do is comment below to be entered in the first $25 American Express gift card giveaway. If you liked my facebook fan page, followed me on Pinterest, &/or Linky Followers, &/or Bloglovin’ tell me in your comment and for each ‘like’ you’ll get another entry!! Then Central Garden & Pet will send the first winner a $25 American Express gift card! Seriously, how great is that? (the other 3 giveaways are coming up in future posts, so be sure to watch for them)
So this first Spring Fling Must-Have Ironite product is ‘Ironite Plus’. It is a liquid lawn and garden spray. The bottle claims it will not burn, and greens up quickly. That’s good because with as long as this winter was, we are ready for some quick greening.
Want to see an amazing before and after? click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Wet Bar Cabinet Stencil Project
Right in the middle of painting my new wet-bar cabinets, I was contacted by Royal Design Studio to post a little something about their stencils.
Well, perfect timing! I wanted to add a little bit of something to the two cabinet doors, and they offered me to select one of their lovely stencils…
(yesterday I showed you some details I decorated on the shelf above the wet bar, click here if you missed that post)
I selected the Wicker Stencil because I thought it sort of mimicked the click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Wet Bar Details
Last time I showed you the fun before and after pics of our new wet-bar in the lower level family room at ‘Our House’.
To create loads of character in this corner, we built in new things, like the barn sash window and beadboard. But we also added in vintage or vintage inspired items too. click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Wet Bar Finished!!!
Yay! The family room is done… finally! I’ve been working away on it, little bit by little bit for most of the winter. (I’ve still got a few projects to show you, but it’s is done!!)
I’ve worked on several different projects this winter/spring, from painting, to making a canning jar chandy, to getting a new sectional and creating a huge folding screen for it with vintage plantation shutters, making a new more neutral window treatment, and re-doing a table and chairs set I found on Craigslist, and installing a wide plank laminate floor, making a sign from old fence boards, re-doing a tennis themed folding screen, making numbered pillows, confessing my secret to an easy fireplace, and having a lot of fun moving around the furniture to create a sort of ‘Ralph Lauren meets 1900 Boy’s Club’ style room.
So here’s how and what I did in, what was once, this boring corner of the family room. click here to read the rest of the story…
Our House: Easy Gardening Project Create Welcome at Door
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Miracle-Gro for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
Miracle-Gro contacted me to share with you a simple garden project to help inspire more gardening. That was an easy yes for me, as I love to garden, and so many projects can be really simple but still make a really fun impact. (For some more great ideas, be sure to check out these great resources too: The Gro Project and fun garden projects and this great video:
“The Gro Project by Miracle-Gro”
So here is my super easy gardening project for my front doors!
Moving Blog… Hopefully You Won’t Be Able to Tell!
I’m moving my blog… I had recently moved it back to wordpress.com, but I’ve been a little too limited with that set up and quite unhappy with the ads on my blog through wordads… so I’m moving.
Hopefully you will not be able to tell, but just in case this is a heads up!
Our House… I Really Love Handsome Furniture
Several years ago, my husband and I were heading over to the cities. We live in NW Wisconsin, just about 20 or 30 miles East of St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN, and for those of you not from around here, they’re known as ‘the twin cities’… but locals shorten that to ‘the cities’.
So back to my story…
We were heading west, and driving through one of the suburbs we spotted an ‘estate sale’ sign. Those are the best sales and even though we were a day late from the opener, there still were a few treasures, and I think we got the best treasure of all… click here to read the rest of the story…
How, Where, When and How I Use Mulch in My Landscape
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Scotts Miracle-Gro for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
We have a quite a bit of landscaping at ‘Our House‘, now that the snow has melted, we’re finally celebrating the weather this last week, it’s been a gorgeous mid 60′s and 70′s! Yay!! Last weekend we got 6″ of snow!! I’m not kidding! It’s been a long winter and days like this last weekend are days to celebrate for sure…
All us ‘Northern Wisconsinites’ crawl out of our houses, like bears just waking up from hibernation, rub our eyes, and then do a little ‘jig’ in the lawn when we realize we’re not going to get frostbit or need to snowblow the driveway before we can leave.
Instead, we run to the barn,
push aside the shovels and snowblowers to look for gardening supplies hoping there is something we can do outside, but in reality, the ground is frozen 6″ below the top for a few more weeks, so we’re limited to picking up branches, cutting off last years foliage from the perennials, and one more thing… click here to read the rest of the story…
