If you follow on Instagram and Facebook, you’ve seen some sneak peeks of what we spent the last week working on! I spent a week back in Oklahoma doing a kitchen remodel in my mom’s house. The before photos show we had a bit of work to do:
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Dark Color Options for Painting Kitchen Cabinets
I partnered with Benjamin Moore on the kitchen remodel we spent the last week working on, and I wanted to share the planning process here before the big reveal! Since the kitchen we made over is in a home with a brand new baby, we took that into consideration with the planning. While I love clean, white cabinets, for this project we opted to go with dark painted cabinets. These won’t show dirt as much and will be great with a growing baby boy in the house. The cabinets are old and dated so we had to do some “doctoring” to give them an updated look. Paired with a fresh coat of paint from Benjamin Moore, we were left with a pretty amazing makeover!
For the planning process, I relied on my friends at Benjamin Moore Flagship here in the Houston Heights.
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Kitchen Updates on a Budget
This post is sponsored by Groupon.
We are smack dab in the middle of a kitchen remodel. It’s been a long time coming; my mom has been planning to update the kitchen in her house since I was in MIDDLE SCHOOL. We decided to dive in this week and do some updates, but we are on a tight budget. It’d be great to gut the entire kitchen and put in brand new appliances and cabinets, but that would cost way too much. Here are 5 ways to do kitchen updates on a budget.
DIY Coasters – Made with FIRE!
This is a FUN project! Using a few basic materials you can create AMAZING DIY coasters with an unexpected twist: FIRE! There are some obvious precautions you should take with this project but with adult supervision this would be a super exciting project for kids needing entertainment OR for adults who want to create custom pieces for their home.
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How To Make Your Backyard An Oasis
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I’ve shared a lot lately about our backyard and all the improvements we’ve made since moving in. We’ve done some pretty large scale DIYs like building a farmhouse table that can seat 12, fixing the rainwater drainage issue around our patio, and adding patio stones to extend our patio and make it look much nicer. Your home can be your escape from the world and you want your backyard to be a peaceful and relaxing place. I’m sharing five ways to do just that!
5 Ways To Make Your Backyard An Oasis
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Backyard Update: DIY Outdoor Couch (An inexpensive pallet project!)
Our backyard has come a LONG way! We are finally to the fun decorating stage of our backyard makeover; which brings us to this pallet project tutorial for our DIY outdoor couch! We had to take care of a few necessary/required projects like fixing our rainwater drainage problems and adding patio pavers around the patio, and now we were able to focus on making the patio more comfortable and fun! We built an inexpensive DIY outdoor couch out of pallets with an AWESOME money saving hack.
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Mason Jar Crafts: Fruit Themed Jars
While summer hasn’t officially started here in Houston, it definitely feels like it has! We are already getting some super hot temperatures and the official start to the season is just around the corner. The hot weather has some of my larger DIY projects on pause (it’s way to hot in the garage!) so I’m inside doing a bit of crafting! Mason jar crafts are super popular and it’s easy to see why! They are versatile and easily customizeable. They are great for decorating and for gift giving. The possibilities are almost endless! I created these fruit themed jars that are perfect for this time of year; watermelon, strawberry, and pineapple have “sweet summertime” written all over them! These are also a great crafting project to do with kids who are home for the summer. When it’s too hot to go outside, the best way to spend your time is inside crafting!
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Kitchen Organization Labels – Free vinyl kitchen labels!
I sometimes grow strange attachments to things. There are times I’d rather hold onto or hoard something than use it. I do this with office supplies (soooo many cute notebooks) and I also do it with vinyl! I think one of my aversions to using it is the fear of messing it up and wasting it! I know I’m not alone in this fear! I even go so far as to save all my scrap vinyl in hopes I can use them someday! Well I finally came up with a project to use up those scrap pieces: DIY kitchen organization labels!
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How to make a DIY Tag Blanket
I’ve had babies on the brain lately.
Don’t get too excited; I’m not having a baby (yet) but I have been to several baby showers and got to meet my brand new nephew last month. So I’ve done several sweet little baby DIYs recently. I used up scrap wood and made a custom wood sign for my nephew. I also did a DIY tag blanket for our friends from church. I made this exact blanket over two years ago for some friends and their little girl loved it. This is a simple sewing project that makes for a great DIY baby shower gift!
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Backyard Update: How to Lay Patio Pavers
After addressing the rainwater drainage issue in our backyard, we decided to lay patio pavers around our back porch. Every time it rained, we had standing water around the patio and we couldn’t get the grass to fill back in, so we decided to fill in with rock to make it more sightly and less messy! This is a low maintenance backyard design idea that can update almost any outdoor space.
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