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A Gallon of Paint Does Wonders Pt. II

In addition to the living and dining rooms, the kitchen, hallway to the bedrooms and stairwell down to the basement also got a fresh coat of paint. I mentioned in the previous post that the walls that connect the living and dining rooms and kitchen kind of all flow together and there isn’t really a […]

A Gallon of Paint Does Wonders

Okay, so one and a half gallons of paint is what it took to complete this project. I painted the three main/common rooms in our upstairs a month ago, but because of my schedule it has taken me this long to get a post up about it. I’m splitting this into two posts, but this […]

My “New” Plant Stand

The wedding is exactly two months away, which means we need to get busy with a few remaining to-do items. One of those to-do items that has been on my list since Tim and I decided to do an Irish Salt Ceremony was to find a small table that the containers of salt would sit […]

The Ugly Wall

We have one wall in the house that is particularly ugly. And we’re not quite sure how to fix it. At least yet… Every time someone comes over to see the progress of the basement, we get pretty excited to show it off. Especially now that the carpet is in. Except there is one part […]

Baseboards

So I’m a bit late at getting to this step in the basement project, but I didn’t want to completely skip over it. We finished putting in the baseboards [trim] in 2–3 weeks ago while we were waiting for our carpet to arrive. I mentioned that I needed to go back and fill in the […]