Ikea Woes and other Rambling Thoughts

I appologize for the project hopping, I realize that I have way too many projects going on at the moment for anyone (including me) to keep straight. Don’t hate me because I ramble.. I think its “pregnancy brain” or that’s what I’m going to attribute it to anyway. I’ll start with: The Nursery and Ikea […]

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Nursery Furniture

I usually post baby and nursery stuff over at becoming-mom, but you all are my go to peeps when it comes to design and decor decisions so indulge me for a sec.. We have decided on this mod looking crib and sheet set from Walmart of all places: The room is really small, and we […]

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Living Room Design Dilemmas

Last night Jeff and I took a trip to target and picked up three prospective roman shades..(cause, you know, I can’t be expected to make an actual decision!) Here’s a pic I snapped this morning (sorry its so dark, overcast skies today): I definitely think I like the middle one best even though the color […]

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Weekend Update: Living Room Changes

It started out innocently enough on Saturday morning..picking up an antique coffee table I won from a local ebay seller for $10 back when I hated the way the dark coffee table/ottoman looked in the living room: Ebay $10 Coffee Table And because Ikea was on the way home from picking up the table, we […]

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Vanity & Dresser Makeover

This weekend I finished the last project on The Porch of Projects, the Craigslist Vanity & Dresser. Both the dresser and vanity had a circle and diamond shaped groove in the top drawer that gave them the distinct look of nursery furniture. So my first order of business was to fill those with wood fill. […]

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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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Shabby Cheap!

Damn! I had so many good pics to share with you this morning.. the after pics of the craigslist dresser and vanity, our porch that has been miraculously cured of all projects and the antique china cabinet that we finally picked up from the seller… But I forgot my camera cord :( So instead I’m […]

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Meet my new linen closet and the porch of projects

So yesterday I posted about tearing down the upstairs hall built in and how that necessitated buying an armoire to keep our linens and extra bath products in. Never one to pass up an excuse to shop, I have been obsessively scouring craigslist and ebay for weeks! Finally, a few days ago we hit gold […]

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I had to Buy it, Really!

Vanity (and chest) that I found on Craigslist for $150 from an actor who goes by “Bones“ No really, I did because our upstairs bathroom is SO small that I have no where to put my rather, um, “extensive” makeup and product collection. It has NOTHING to do with the fact that its totally shabby […]

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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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