Dining Room Rug Take II.

First of all, THANK YOU For all the well wishes on our new little “project!” Now, about the rug.. Instead of going back to the bigger (and farther away) Home Goods where we got the original too small dining room rug, we went to the one closer to our house. They didn’t have the same […]

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New Dining Room Rug – Almost

During our spontaneous accidental Home Goods shopping trip on the way back from picking up Faux Fireplace II we found the perfect dining room rug!  Or so we thought. Not having actually ever measured our dining room floor or table for a rug, we didn’t really know what size to get, but the 5-9 ish […]

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Belated Weekend Update – In which the fireplace gets a new coat of paint.

Ok, I have my camera cord! So here’s the result of this weekend’s progress..or lack therof. But I DO have a semi-decent excuse for my lack of productivity, Saturday was my grandma’s 85 b’day party over in Stroudsburg PA, so I only really had one day to work on the house.   Here’s my Grandma Eunice, […]

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More half (baked?) bath ideas..

Even though I spent ALL day yesterday looking for wallpaper, I decided to go with Liz‘s fab idea of stenciling instead because, as Alana pointed out, wallpapering a small bathroom is HARD! So even though my search was for naught, I thought I’d share some of the amazing eye candy I turned up from euro […]

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Weekend Update: Sconces, Grills and Curtains – Oh My!

The weekend started with a Friday night whirlwind shopping expedition with stops at Ikea, West Elm and Crate & Barrel. At Ikea I got both the white AND natural color curtain for the dining room (what, you actually expected me to be decisive?) and red ones for the office. The red ones are going back […]

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Budget? What Budget?

You may have seen the orange “Vote for Me: Remodel, Blog & Win” button on the right sidebar – appropriately placed under the heading of “Shameless self promotion.” Its a contest sponsored by Remodel My Space that’s ending soon and the prize is a cool 5k! The votes cast by clicking on that banner go […]

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The China Cabinet has been Collected

  Some of you may remember when I bought the antique china cabinet on ebay about a month or so ago.  The seller is about 120 miles away in Pennsylvania, so it took us a while to schedule a time to meet half way. Having looked at a google map of the route between the […]

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My New China Cabinet and other Shopping Tidbits..

Thank you for all of your opinions about the items we were considering buying before last weekend. I thought I should post an update since so many of you were kind enough to post your advice! 1) For some reason we never made it to see the grill…too much chaos with the tar incident. 2) […]

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Weekend Plans

The weekend is upon us and we’re in the unfamiliar territory called “the home stretch” in which we actually get to start “cleaning up” and “finishing things” in preparation for (gasp!) actually MOVING IN! Whoohooo! Ok, as usual I’m getting a bit ahead of myself because we can’t move in until we have the floors […]

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Country Kitchen a la JCPenney?

I’ve seen alot of these JCPenney country kitchen pieces featured in decorating mags this spring, and they’re all on clearance now!  I’m thinking any one of these would look so cute in our dining room: Cottage Kitchen Hutch – now $199 (my fave I think) Or this Buffet for just $149! And lastly this Victorian Buffet & […]

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