Did you know that if you write something down you're significantly more likely to do it? Setting goals you can work toward is critical to moving forward in life rather than remaining stagnant. Your future goals may be as simple as planting a garden, planning a vacation, or cleaning out the garage or they can be much more lofty - starting and growing your own business, acheiving better health, or saving to build your dream home.
I'm going to keep some immediate goals rather simple today with ...
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China White Credenza With Hand-Painted Pine Trees
Take a very plain piece of office furniture and turn it into something amazing this week. Here's my own creation that is now a China White credenza with hand-painted pine trees. See furniture differently. This is exactly what I've learned to do since I began refinishing furniture several years ago. Taking on a building, remodeling, decorating, or painting project means you to have to be able to envision a completely different end result.
Look at your starting point as a blank canvas. Look ...
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9 Creative Ways to Decorate With Curtains
The most common use for curtain panels is to cover windows, but these same fabric panels also have many other uses in the home.
If you have a space to which you'd like to add privacy, softness, drama, or movement, yet a wall, door or partition would add too much structure, try using a curtain panel to frame the area instead.
Almost any room can benefit from hanging a curtain panel. Hang a full-length panel from a rod placed close to the ceiling, and the ceiling will suddenly feel higher and ...
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14 Ways to Make Money Just by Tidying Up Your Home
A while back, I showed you how I made $286 in one week just by tidying up our home. If you missed that post, you can read it here. As I was writing that, it got me thinking about all of the ways I've made money in the past just by tidying up.
I've always been of the mindset of living with less. Holding on to fewer material things keeps our home more organized - which makes them easier to clean - and it helps our environment by not generating more. More manufactured products... more ...
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Long Dressers as Sofa Tables
Long dressers are one of the most versitle type of furniture pieces. You've seen them used as media consoles and hallway storage, but one of the less expected uses is that of a sofa table.
Photo by Renewal Design-Build - Discover midcentury living room design inspiration
In addition to being a long tabletop, dressers offer tons of storage. While just about any dresser can work, the best sized dresser to fit behind a sofa are those that are 60 inches long, up to 18 inches wide, and only 30 ...
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Achieving a Distressed Finish With Polyshades Stain
Even though most of the furniture pieces in my home are on the modern side, I still always love the surprise of a single, distressed statement piece of furniture mixed in and on display. They're comforting. They look as though they've been well-used over many years and remind us of home and memories.
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When I came across this antique dresser I saw it as a perfect hallway table and storage piece. The challenge was to restore and clean ...
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Tall Black Dresser With Gold Flower Knobs
For those of you that follow EntriWays on Facebook, you've probably noticed I spent the morning adding several new furniture pieces to my Shop. Dressers, desks, beds, and a farm table. You can check out them out HERE.
Today, I'd like to show you one of those dressers.
This antique dresser has a great size and shape to be extra storage in any room. Use it in the bedroom, fit it in a bathroom, tuck it into a nook, or showcase the beautiful gold flower knobs in your living room!
The ...
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Homemade Dog Food – Easy, Convenient & Healthy
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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