For the past six months I've been making homemade dog food. It's incredibly easy to make and a healthy option for our our very picky beagle. Homemade dog food is also convenient to prepare in batches and freeze.
Making our own dog food came about when I discovered a few fatty lumps on my dog's belly and back. From my own experimentation, I learned that giving our dog milk can do this. When she was a baby she used to finish off my left over cereal. After just two weeks of her drinking that ...
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A More Efficient Mudroom Layout
Mudrooms are the drop station as we enter our homes. They hold coats, shoes, hats, bags, and umbrellas, just to name a few. Creating solutions that keep all of these mudroom items organized is just as important as organization in your kitchen or living room.
Throughout the past week, we've been talking about my friend Annie's New England colonial home and helping her find more storage in her home. We've provided solutions that will keep her home organized and keep items neatly tucked away and ...
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Creating Storage in an Open Living Room
These past few days have been all about finding more storage in your home - solutions that keep a home organized and keep items neatly tucked away and out of sight.
In Part 1, we talked about my friend Annie's kitchen where we turned an old TV armoire into an organization station. In Part 2, we eliminated the clutter in her small dining room, provided a functional furniture solution, and designed wall decor that would feature her family plus clean up several other tabletops around her home. If ...
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Fitting Family & Function Into a Small Dining Room
How is your dining room working for you? How does it make you feel when you walk in the room? The kitchen, living, and dining rooms are the three rooms in the home where family and friends gather for food, conversation, and just to be together. So it's important that these rooms function well and feel comfortable.
Remember my friend who needed her dining room to serve two functions - dining and office? We were able to make the room work for both. Today, we're focussing just on using the ...
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TV Cabinet Repurposed into an Organization Station
It's been a busy week finishing up some copywriting for a client and helping a friend begin the process of organizing her home. She's home for the summer and is determined to use the time to get her home back on track and working for her family again.
Working with the layout of your home and making that layout as efficient as possible is so critical when you have five teenagers living under the same roof. Every space has to have intent. Every space has to be carefully laid out so that it ...
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Changing Tables, Bar Carts & The Perfect Black Paint
Open any design catalog and you'll find an image of a bar cart. Whether it be gold, platinum, copper, or industrial metal, bar carts add both functionality and beauty to a space. Which is exactly why I'm always on the lookout for small tables that can be transformed into bar carts or tables (since carts technically have wheels and are mobile).
The best options are those that have multiple open shelves so the glassware and bottles are easily accessible. Baby changing tables work perfectly and ...
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This Week’s Furniture Finds
I've been very lucky this season to come across so many large, functional, clean dressers, buffets, and media consoles. It makes me even happier when I come across a matching pair - even when each piece turns up 2 months apart!
Remember this antique dresser I refinished a few weeks ago (left)? Well, this week I came across an almost identical antique dresser (right). It appears that the size of the top three drawers is just a bit different; but wouldn't they make perfect his & hers ...
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How I Made $286 This Week By Tidying Up
Yesterday I made $286 just by tidying up my house. Sorting through the clutter we can live without is an incredibly easy way to put money back in your pocket. Here's how I made $286 just this week and I'm not nearly done.
CONSIGNING
Refinishing furniture means I often have a stock of several smaller pieces of furniture. I usually keep them around for a while to pair them with larger pieces and make a set. I've put together entire bedroom and dining sets this way.
Last month I took ...
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