8 Decorating Tips From a Gal Who Loves Color and Simplicity

I wanted to share a few tips on how I decorate my home and few ''rules'' that I've implemented to keep things minimal and tasteful. This post is a little long because there is no process that I follow. When I'm getting ready to decorate a room I like to start with a clean slate and make what I call my ''pile of things'' that I have in mind for that space. I then just start decorating from my pile. Sometimes I add things, sometimes I take things away- I just put the room together in a way that makes me happy and tweek it until I think it's perfect.

First things first...

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Partial Living Room Progress

Thanks so much for stopping by tonight to check on our living room progress! If you're just getting caught up you can read all about what lead up to our living room demo [here]. We're still not 100% finished but we've finally gotten close enough to slow down a bit. We still need to put up a mantle and finish out the area around the mantle. We widened the entry way into the kitchen from the living room and need to trim that up. We're planning to install a new front door which will be black and have lots of windows. Not to mention, I have about 100 more decor projects to finish (story of my life, right?)...

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Wrapping Up Our Living Room Remodel

We have been deep into an unexpected living room remodel for the past month or so. I'm finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel so I wanted to catch y'all up on the changes we are making and also tell you about some of the not so pretty updates we've made since moving in...

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Beadboard and Built-ins- Master Bathroom Reveal

I guess it's past time for me to show you our master bathroom renovation at the Kensington house. As you can see, I didn't get too crazy with the decor and personal touches on this project. Other than a few small cosmetic updates, this was the last big project we finished before moving. In fact, this room was completely demo'd when our house went under contract. You can read the details of that here. Needless to say, we scrambled to get this room finished before the appraisal. My mother and father in law spent an entire weekend working with us to help us finish. Those two can work circles around Jamie and me. They are 2 very productive people and I was very happy to have their help.

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Why We Decided to Sell Just After Finishing a Three Year Remodel

If you've been following along on Facebook, you know that my husband and I have been remodeling a house for the better part of the past 3 years.

It was our first home in Texas. When we bought the house, we never intended to stay. We did play around with the idea of staying on and off as we lived there. Especially after most of the work was coming to an end. The idea of ''no more projects'' sounded amazing. The idea of enjoying our hard work sounded spectacular. But that was never the real plan. We'd always intended to sell the house after a few years or rent it out and buy something else...

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We Sold, We Bought, We Moved

Holy moly, y'all. This summer has been crazy. Let me see if I can give you the short version....

It's been a dream of mine to have my own antique home. I really love Craftsman homes but basically anything earlier than the 1930's has me swooning. So a little over a year ago, my in-laws moved from 2 minutes away from us to 10 miles South of us- into their own 1915 fixer upper...

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Cover Your Popcorn with a DIY Coffered Style Ceiling

If you've been following me on Facebook, you probably already know that my husband and I have been working in our kitchen on and off since we bought our home over two years ago. The day after Christmas, we finally started demoing the old tile! I waited sooo long for that day!! Now that I have pretty new floors, I can finally show you my kitchen/ dining area and I hope you love it as much as I do...

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How to Dress up Your Boring Cabinets

We didn't have the budget for new cabinets when we bought our house but I actually didn't mind them at all. Besides being very dirty and greasy, I really loved the look of the beadboard. Before we ever even moved in, we'd taken off all 32 of the cabinet doors, removed all of the hardware, and started prepping for paint. A few of them even needed to be repaired but that's nothing that is ol gal couldn't handle. I'm a master of wood glue and clamps :) Especially if it saves thousands of dollars...

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Magnolia Market and my 29th Birthday

Last Wednesday, I came home from my 2 week trip to Alabama just in time to celebrate my 29th birthday. At 9:30 the night before I left for Alabama, I finished grouting the very last tile in our kitchen. I left home with a dining room table in our living room and a layer of concrete dust on everything we own from the floor demo...

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Bathroom Update Turned Renovation

We started our ''quick bathroom makeover'' with the intention of cleaning up the grout and caulk, painting the cabinets, painting the walls. I was really excited about an idea from Pinterest to paint the floor tile as a temporary fix...

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