After months of saving inspiration pictures, finally I can do something useful with them like create color palettes at COLOURlovers.com! Here’s the palette I created using OplusD’s f*ck line of greeting cards as an inspiration: And when I’m done creating the palettes, I can head over to Easy RGB and use their color match tool to […]

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The antique chandelier that we bought in North Carolina looks more beautiful than I had even hoped for in its new home in our Dining Room!     (a lot better than the pic I snagged at the antique shop no?) I hadn’t been sure about the burnished gold color, but its a nice compliment to the silvery/blue/gray wall […]

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I’ve always loved those features in magazines like “Lust or Must” where they show you the couture version of an outfit and then show you a much more affordable item (knock off?) that has a similar look for a fraction of the price. I’m starting my own feature called Chic and Cheap!  I don’t know […]

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Our house has two built ins that we knew we were going to knock out immediately (more on those later!)  But once we had all the cabinet doors off we could see through the large cabinet that hangs just over the passthrough from the kitchen into the living room.  I think that being able to see […]

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We closed on the house Friday! So much has happened over the past few days it feels like a lifetime since then. I’ll start with the walkthrough on Thursay night. We hadn’t seen the house in a few weeks ad were pleasantly surprised to see everything had bloomed, including the gorgeous Japanese Cherry tree in […]

Filed under: Mortgages, renovations by ariana
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