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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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Lifestyle

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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Backyard

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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The Gummersall Home

BTS Part 1: Before We Dug

From planning the house with the architect to meeting with window and cabinet companies and getting our final bid back. Things are rolling even though the dirt hasn’t been touched.

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Tips

Review: Top Painting Supplies

about to tackle a paint project? I’ve tried all the supplies out there so you don’t have to waste your money. Here’s what I buy.

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Design

A Mistake that Cost Me Thousands of Dollars.

An unfortunate business flop that cost me thousands and how building a tonic website has given me my control back!

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Backyard

5 Ways to Upgrade Your Pergola

Let’s take your pergola to the next level! Here are 5 things you can do to “trick” out your pergola.

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Recipes

Hawaiian Haystacks Recipe

Feeding a crowd? Try Hawaiian Haystacks. Chicken in a gravy served over rice with toppings galore.

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Backyard

Transform Your Backyard Paradise: Refinishing a Yardistry Pergola

Have a worn out pergola that needs to be stained and sealed? Do it in an afternoon for under $50.

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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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