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Christmas Mantle Tips

Here a few tips to get your mantle looking Christmas ready. Tips and tricks for getting your mantle perfect every year!

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Outdoor Christmas Wreaths

Easy 5 minute project for $5 – Count me in! Get your windows Holiday ready with this simple and inexpensive DIY project that will take you less than 5 minutes

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Jess’s Primary Bathroom Reno

Jess’s bathroom was a builder grade 2004 bathroom with a lipstick renovation in 2008 before she purchased the home. It was in desperate need of a face lift, and we did just that!

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Easy Tutorial: Refinish Your Table in an Afternoon for Under $30

Yes, you can really refinish your table as good as new in an afternoon for around $30. Some of these products you might already have laying around your house, and the amount of stain you’ll use is minimal so realistically you could refinish 10 tables for $30 in one day; now there’s a furniture flipping […]

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Christmas

Top of the List -Toys

Christmas is just around the corner, and you know what that means—time to spoil the little ones with the most fantastic toys of the year from the BEST Christmas Toy Gift Guide! And where else can you find the hottest toys of the season but online at Walmart?

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DIY Cookbook Holder

I stumbled upon this Pottery Barn Cookbook Holder and thought, “hey! I can make that” and it won’t cost me almost $200. I went to Home Depot and purchased a 1×12″ common board to cut into the pieces that would make the main board. Added a little glue, brad nails, and stain and in just a few hours I built a $5 DIY cookbook holder!

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Round Up

Honey Built Home Area Rug Roundup

It’s no secret that a good area rug is the foundation of a space. It grounds the furniture, provides color, texture, and warmth to a space. Here’s how I styled my Boutique rugs in my home.

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Daily Kids Checklist

Back to school means trying to establish some routine for my littles. It also means an influx of emails and new expectations from their teachers that has my mind spinning attempting to keep them straight.
So instead of constantly rechecking emails and their online portal to figure out their 5 different user names and passwords, I simplified things and added it to their daily checklist.

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DIY Pickleball Court in Your Backyard

Here’s how we went about surfacing ours to give it the professional epoxy sanded surface that you’d find at a park to make a regulation size pickleball court and a half court basketball court in our very own backyard.

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Meet Christine Gummersall, a mother of 4, coach's wife, former Labor and Delivery nurse, and self taught DIYer who decided to take a sledge hammer to her 1950's bathroom over a decade ago and hasn't stopped tackling her honey-do list since.  Folow along as christine breaks down the pretty afters, by showing the whole how to process and empowers you to STOP waiting, and START creating a home you love, with your own two hands! 

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