Category: At Home

Adding Character to Your Home

How to Install a Kid-Friendly Stair Runner

If you’ve been following our stair makeover, you’ve read how I ripped up the builder-basic carpet in a fit of madness then painted the stairs for less than $50. The final step was installing a runner from Sisal Rugs Direct. Here’s everything you need to know about choosing the best

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Adding Character to Your Home

Why Painting My Kitchen Cabinets Set Me Free

When we bought our house two years ago, the kitchen was painted a burnt pumpkin orange and the previous owners had installed a black, ivory and gold backsplash that, though nice, wasn’t what I would have picked.  Everyone who saw the kitchen said it was pretty but it didn’t feel

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Painted Stairs for Under $50

The staircase is the first thing you see when you enter our house and when we moved in two years ago, it was carpeted in a builder-basic carpet that wasn’t white or tan or gray. The best way I can describe it is skinned Muppets. Dirty skinned Muppets. Just imagine

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Finishing Mom’s Basement Apartment

If you ask me, a door isn’t just a door. Especially if you’ve had one after another closed in your face. These days, a door, THIS door, looks like a fresh start. I found this particular door for $10 at Restore and though right now it doesn’t look like much,

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The Time I Ripped the Carpet Up

Friend, I have a confession: This beautiful photo by my good friend, Stacey Reid, though one of my favorites, is not an accurate representation of how I do pregnancy. I thought that by my second pregnancy, I would be a little better at the whole making a human thing. I’d

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I Am Not Just an Email Address. Neither Are You.

Four years ago, I shut the door of my office at a regional magazine and became an email address. I still have bosses, so to speak. Women working in offices like the one I used to have, who work through lunch and slip their high heels off under their desk

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