Having the whole family over for Holiday Dinners? Need to have enough space for everyone? Here are a few tips on what you can do to squeeze in all the extra people you will have over! There are many different ways to approach this, the first is rearranging. If you have a large living room […]
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Are you wanting to transform your basement? Create a great new space to entertain? Or a great place for a man cave? Well you’re in luck, you have come to the right place! This week we are going to look at some great basement bar ideas for large and small spaces. So whether you have
Are you planning a Halloween party? Well this is just the post for you, with Halloween coming up this weekend, we decided to share some awesome Halloween decorations and party ideas that we found and thought were fabulous! These are all some very classy looking decorations that are easy DIY projects with objects you can
Summer is nearing the end with Labor Day Weekend upon us. We had quite a few events going on that filled up August, a wedding shower in Eastern Iowa that I assisted in hosting, a back-to-school shopping trip to Kansas City with my niece and two daughters, a family reunion in Booneville, MO, my nephews
Welcome back, this week we are taking a look into ideas on how you can change up your garage! Whether it’s just to organize it better, make it the ultimate man cave, and add an additional room to your house, or a fun space for the kids to hang out. We have found it all
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Jodi and the girls up-cycled an old mirror into a fun new chalkboard! Check out the behind the scenes of how they did it. This was the mirror before: Taking it apart. Separating the back from the mirror. They then took off the mirror part off completely. And spray painted the frame a
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For a while we have been told to remove our wallpaper. It’s dated, it’s too personal, it’s everywhere! Despite all that, I am writing a piece on the many uses for wallpaper. No, I don’t need to be medicated quite yet! Have you ever heard the phrase “less is more”? If we apply this idea
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Honestly, we didn’t know what upcyclying was until a recent Home Staging Project! We had the privilege of staging a newly constructed Net Zero Eco Home, the first of its kinda in Iowa. The builders of the home, Eco Logic Homes, wanted the furnishings that were Green and Eco-friendly. In searching for items to stage
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In our previous post Dining Room Dilemma we gave you instructions to make decorative wallpaper panels. If you’re having trouble picking out a wallpaper pattern, check out some of these patterns from Graham & Brown: Eden Paintable Textured Wallpaper Majestic: Grey Wallpaper Trippy: Lime & Chocolate Wallpaper
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Open floor plans create the illusion of large spaces with limited square footage, but can create a problem when you’re trying to make a distinct space for a distinct purpose. I ran into that very problem with my dining area and living room. There isn’t a distinct division between my dining area and living room
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