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DIY Brown Bag Snowflakes
These snowflakes are so easy to make and so stinking cute! All you need are brown lunch bags, scissors and a glue gun. Count out 7 lunch bags. Lay them with the bottom facing up. Using the glue gun run a line of glue across the top and straight down the middle. You will have…
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Stairway Ideas
This is part of a multi step (see what I did there) process to improve our stairway to the basement. Sharing multiple ideas to jazz up your space! We had a dark, boring, brown stairway leading to the basement. I wanted to brighten it and give it personality. It had a knee wall on the…
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Wood wall using hardwood flooring
I inherited a few boxes of cherry hardwood flooring. I was planning to use it in a basement bedroom to replace carpet. Wood isn’t the best choice over concrete so my plan was derailed. I’ve been making my way repainting and making the bedrooms “ours” one by one. This bedroom hasn’t been painted or changed…
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How to German Schmear a Fireplace
This is our fireplace AFTER I added only one thing to it……joint compound. Our fireplace began the original brick color as they all do. This is in our basement and I am in the process of painting and brightening the space up. To prepare I simply vacuumed the hearth and wiped down the mantle. I…