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You’ve got personality, you know it and your friends know it. That doesn’t mean the whole neighborhood needs to know it. Be your fabulous self without broadcasting it all over your home like you’re a circus ringmaster with a paintbrush megaphone. Read Post…
I’ve got a large stash of old hardware that we’ve pulled off various jobsites. There’s a box in the back of my car, one in my office and a box in my hall closet. Sheesh! As the holidays approach, all that cool hardware got me to thinking – I’d love to recycle this stuff into a DIY gift wrap project. The beat up stuff is beautiful when you pair it with something glamorous, kind of “industrial chic”.
I poked through my collection and came up with really old hinges, keys, keyholes, and lots of bits and pieces, nuts and washers. It makes me happy to see these old pieces – some from the late 1800’s – enjoying their own Renaissance in my gift wrap. Read Post…
If you are preparing to list your home for sale, you should be looking hard at what you might have to repair before you start showing buyers your space. Excuse the dramatic expression:
Selling a home today is like going to war!
You have to be wildly prepared, take all romantic notions of your home and its glory days out of your head, and focus hard on the task at hand – until you’ve achieved your goal.
Only you know what state your home and finances are in. The journey to putting your home up for sale must start with a careful plan and some serious education. It would be silly to list your home without seeing your competition. Walk through any listed homes in your neighborhood to see what your prospective buyers are looking at before and after your home. How do you stack up?
Susan Hutchinson, of Nesting in historic Pennsylvania, has a way with creating a casually comfortable kitchen. She and her husband Parker updated their kitchen in historic West Chester, PA – aiming to take it back to its humble beginnings.
Like many projects, their space is a work in progress, and they have plans to continue to remodel the kitchen as their lives calm down from the birth of their twins! I came across her remodel recently and had to reach out to her to share it with you. Here are a few questions I asked her about her kitchen remodel and update.
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