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    DIY Chalk Paint Cabinet

    When we moved into our house several years ago I sourced a lot of different places for furniture – outlet stores, thrift stores, furniture stores, catalogs, Ikea. I didn’t want our house to have a “furniture store” look. If I liked the look of something and it went with the space I bought it. A lot of our furniture we’ve acquired over time. I think it’s hard to move into a house and immediately buy every piece of furniture at once – unless you have unlimited budget and a designer on speed dial. What I did do when we bought our house, is made a list of each room and…

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    Painted Fireplace

    One of the first projects that we took on was to update the mantel in our family room. We loved the woodwork but wanted to give the entire thing a refresh by painting it white. It was an easy project but made a dramatic difference in the room immediately.