Category: Home Upgrades

Exterior Upgrades, Gardening, Home Upgrades, House & Home

All the details on my new English-Inspired Cottage Garden & Organic Vegetable Garden, ORC – week 8

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All the details on my new English-Inspired Cottage Garden & Organic Vegetable Garden, ORC – week 8

I am so excited to share these pictures with you because the transformation of Berrybrier’s front yard is blowing my mind! The space is now so much more beautiful and functional! This project took so much work though and certainly didn’t happen overnight. Hours and hours and hours of weeding went into clearing the garden. Then I moved a ton of my existing plants, added more plants, and laid all the stone path. It’s so wonderful to see it all come together just as I first imagined, it’s completely transformed the whole look of the house. Let’s take a closer look!

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Design Inspiration, Exterior Upgrades, Home Upgrades, House & Home

My dream English-Inspired Cottage Garden and Vegetable Garden plans for the ORC – week 1

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My dream English-Inspired Cottage Garden and Vegetable Garden plans for the ORC – week 1

Ahhhh!!! I cannot wait to share this with y’all! I’ve been dreaming and planning this project for so, so long! To prepare I’ve been out in the garden as much as possible for months weeding and weeding and weeding some more. It’s been exhausting, but so exciting to see the fruits of my labor come to life.

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Decorating & Finishing Touches, Furniture Upgrades & Builds, Home Upgrades, House & Home

How to Build a DIY Shelf With Copper Hanging Bar

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How to Build a DIY Shelf With Copper Hanging Bar

One of my favorite corners of my newly refreshed kitchen is this awkward little one in the corner! Before my kitchen renovation the corner was looking really rough with chaotic 70’s wallpaper, a musty cabinet, and flaking vinyl floors. The stove needed to go below the windows in the appliance outlet and I planned to add cabinets on either side. But you know this already!

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Decorating & Finishing Touches, Home Upgrades, House & Home, Painting, Room Checklist

One Room Challenge – Week 6 Phase I Kitchen Reveal!

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One Room Challenge – Week 6 Phase I Kitchen Reveal!

I’m so excited to share these photos with you guys! I’m publishing this just under the wire of the One Room Challenge deadline! You better believe I needed every last second of these six weeks. The kitchen is central to every home and this challenge really got me to dive in and finish so many projects I’d started. This space really is the heart of the house with the main bathroom, backyard, and stairs all located off of this room. It’s the main thoroughfare and the most used space!

And it’s looking really good now, y’all!

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Electrical, Plumbing, & HVAC, Home Upgrades, House & Home

One Room Challenge – Week 4 DIY Skim-coated Concrete Counters

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One Room Challenge – Week 4 DIY Skim-coated Concrete Counters

Oh boy, want to know what’s so much better looking than 45 year old yellow patterned laminate counters? Pretty much anything. Yup. Also, my new DIY skimcoated counters. Those are also pretty amazing. And today’s post is all about how I made some simple forms to skimcoat and create a more uniformed counter surface in my kitchen!

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Good Buys, Home Upgrades, House & Home, Painting

One Room Challenge – Week 3 Painting 1940s Kitchen Cabinets

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One Room Challenge – Week 3 Painting 1940s Kitchen Cabinets

The kitchen cabinets are painted and it is life-changing! So things are going to get a little hairy in this posts since some of the kitchen cabinet painting happened during the wainscotting installation and wall prep from last week! Basically, remember how my kitchen looked like this? Partially sanded cabinets? Look a little closer. See how those cabinets are all different styles? My kitchen cabinets were cobbled together over a few decades no earlier than 1930, but probably not later than 1960. It’s a mystery. There are 4 door styles. And none of them are good. The insides of the cabinets were gross and everything was a bit of a hot mess.

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