Marble Countertop Choices

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Hello friends! It has been a while since I have blogged, we were busy traveling around the country for Spring Break.    We headed back to South Carolina and Tennessee, our favorite places to visit!  The weather was wonderful and so was the southern hospitality! It’s gloomy and rainy here today so all these pictures

Living Room & Kitchen Updates

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Spring is coming and I’ve been fluffing my nest.  After painting a few rooms in my home the next change for me was some furniture.  I have rearranged this living room more than a few times lately and now I think I’ve finally figured out how I like it. A few weeks ago at Target

Life Lately….Painting and Projects

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Is everyone surviving this crazy weather in the US lately?  Large amounts of snow, ice and freezing temps have got a lot of us really wishing for spring lately! I have tried staying busy with projects and painting, it certainly helps me to have something to focus on and energizes me as well.  A few weeks

Kitchen Update

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You know the story of if you Give a Mouse a Cookie? Well that’s how it is at our house, if you give Angela a paint brush, chances are, she’ll find something to paint. So a few weeks ago after a great weekend with friends, we decided to bring up the Christmas tree. Easy enough….until

If you give Angela a Paint Brush chances are….my kitchen cabinet dilemma

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If you follow me on instagram or facebook, you may have noticed that I started painting my kitchen cabinets last week.  Last Sunday we hauled the Christmas tree out of the basement which led to rearranging the living room which led to painting over the patched area on the living room wall which led me

Black Interior Doors

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The other day when I looked at my powder room door and so how gross, dirty and blah it looked, I grabbed my paint brush, some black ACE Cabinet, Door & Trim paint and decided I’d had enough. I already have a few black doors in our home, the french doors and also the insides

Chalkboard Subway Tile Backsplash & My Kitchen

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Don’t you love when inspiration hits?  It’s a drop everything, I need to do this now kind of thing for me so when I saw Carmel’s  Chalkboard Brick Fireplace Makeover on Monday, I was hit hard with inspiration! Which reminded me of The Nester’s chalkboard fireplace that I have always loved.   Then I did a quick

I love my kitchen!

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Last time I left off with my kitchen cabinets was in June, we were heading off for our vacation and I had just finished painting the last coat on the cabinets after my Rustoleum Cabinet Transformations failure.  After working on my pantry last week, and finishing up some other things in the kitchen, like a

My Pretty Pantry

Fall is in there air and apparently it makes me want to nest.  I have been finishing up projects and starting a few new ones the past week since the kids started school.  On a whim the other day I decided to paint the pantry which led to also painting the mudroom.  Don’t ask.  I

The Kitchen Cabinets are Painted!

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After my Rustoleum Cabinet Transformations Failure, I needed to finish up the kitchen cabinets before we left on vacation.  Last night when we should have been going over the packing list and stuffing more goldfish into snack bags, we were instead putting cabinet drawer fronts and doors back on the frames in the kitchen.  For