Category: Projects
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Electrical, Plumbing and Framing The Finale – One Room Challenge Week 6
It’s finally here ya’ll, the awaited end to our electrical, plumbing, and framing trilogy. We finally finished the rough-in plumbing and electrical and closed up all the walls. Wow, it feels good just saying that. Welcome to our One Room Challenge Week 6 post. It’s been a long path this 3 weeks, a lot learned,…
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Electrical, Plumbing and Framing Part 2 – One Room Challenge Week 5
In this week’s Electrical, Plumbing and Framing Part 2 – One Room Challenge Week 5 we delve further into all the work we are doing, giving this bathroom its well-deserved rebirth. Here we have a continuation of last week’s work which we are not quite done yet. Take a look at what we’ve done since…
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Electrical, Plumbing and Framing – One Room Challenge Week 4
We are back at it, another week of the One Room Challenge has arrived! Click below for a quick glance at the past weeks! Week 1 / Week 2 / Week 3 / Week 4 / Week 5 / Week 6 / Week 7 / Week 8 With the completion of last week’s demo, we…
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Demo Week – One Room Challenge Week 3
It’s here, it’s here! The day has come y’all! You have no idea how ecstatic I am right now. Today is the day-how do I put it gently- we tear to smithereens our bathroom! You can’t even fathom how sublime it felt taking out that tile, tearing out those walls, those textures walls! Ok. Now…
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Bathroom and Closet Declutter – One Room Challenge Week 2
The Purge It’s week 2 of this exciting adventure and what have we done? Not much honestly, just clearing all our stuff out! You would think it would be pretty easy; just grab a couple of bags and totes and throw that shit in there. But no, somehow when you are organizing, junk multiplies and…
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Master Bath DIY Reno – One Room Challenge Week 1
It’s happening! It’s finally happening! We are remodeling our master bathroom! And it only took us 5 years, a lot of saving, planning, and staring at the puke color pink walls over the many years of taking dumps. But our sledgehammers are in hand and we will show no mercy as we take out our…
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How to Plan for a DIY Project!
In this post, you will learn how to plan for a DIY project! The best part is you can use this post as a guide for practically any project, big or small. All projects start the same but they branch out depending on what you are doing. Whether it’s a mini-makeover, or you are building…
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DIY Front Porch Pergola
Today we bring you the story behind our DIY front porch pergola! If you can remember, the exterior was beige, and among one of our first DIY projects was the extension of the front porch, complete with a white pergola. We recently painted our house exterior, in Alabaster by Sherwin Williams, against which the cute…
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How to Whitewash Exterior Brick Easily
Recently we had our house painted, thank God! It was brown. Mojon brown (If you know, you know!). Just like every other finish in our home. People, mi gente! We waited and lived with that sad finish for the past 4 years, every year hoping we’d finally be able to afford a paint job. Finally,…
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DIY Bedroom Accent Wall
Ah! Nothing like retreating to a beautiful and cozy bedroom after a long day! Where you feel soothed and relaxed, except, in my case, we weren’t. Our master bedroom was the antonym of that. It was dark, cluttered, and not at all appealing. Of course, with some cleaning and organizing we got the clutter fixed,…