La Casita Blog
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Complete Home Renovation
A Home Made New “A house is made of brick and mortar, but home is made by the people who live there” -M.k Soni Inspired by this beautiful quote, we set out to write about a recent flip we completed in a suburb of Rochester, New York. After finding this colonial style house online, we…
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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 Accent Wall with Secret Door
2020 has been a year of many challenges! Within those challenges, staying at home because of quarantine tops the list for many of us. One part of that struggle maybe not knowing what to do with yourself. Subsequently, you may find yourself picking fights with loved ones on stuff like “you are breathing too hard”…
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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,…
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Easy DIY House Number Sign
Do you have scrap wood laying around? Looking for an easy way to upgrade your curb appeal? Well, today we bring you a quick and easy DIY house number sign tutorial to help you spruce up your homes curb appeal! We are constantly trying to love our home again by working on a project around…
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Easy DIY Board and Batten Tutorial
Yes, this is in fact yet another DIY board and batten tutorial! Posts like this aren’t hard to find, and yet here we are! Adding to the 3,600,000 available search results for the term DIY board and batten. So what’s the point? Well, we don’t just want to just be another easy DIY board and…