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Next project: colorful, unsafe foyer!

You know what kind of conversations we almost never have around here? Talks about what we’ll do “when the house is finished.” That’s because Andy and I have both realized that I am a psychotic mind-changing decorator who will never “be finished.” What can I say? It’s FUN! Here’s our foyer. (And our canvas letters.) […]

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How to install iron balusters

How to install iron baluster shoes

Oh, friends! The day has come. The day to REVOLT against plain wooden balusters and jazz up your staircase with iron balusters. In the last post, I showed you how to stain your wooden railings… and today we talk iron balusters. Glamorous, glamorous iron. Like this. Highland Park Architects & Designers Lucy and Company I’ll […]

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How to refinish your stair railings and sing like Adele!

Choosing the right tool to remove finish from wooden stairway railings

Come on friends; it’s time to take a little journey. I wish we were going on a classic road trip, complete with car-dancing, crazy wind-blown hair and more Mike-and-Ikes than one digestive system is equipped to handle, but it’s not that kind of trip: we’re headed down memory lane, buds. (By the way, I’m fully […]

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Crushing on: Pink + Gold

Pink + gold color inspiration

Something happened to me over the last few years. Something I never would’ve predicted: the combo of pink + gold decor has inexplicably wormed its way into my heart. The Every Girl You could say I’ve got a FEVAH and the only prescription is more cowbell glamour. Kelly Wearstler in Domino magazine If you’d showed […]

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How People Make Blinds

Thanks to Payless Decor for sponsoring this Mr. Rogers-style field trip and post! Also brought to you by the letter R and the number 6. Once when Andy and I were newly dating, we somehow agreed to watch the babies and preschoolers in the church nursery together during vacation Bible school. We knew LESS than […]

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Never buy curtains again: 27 inspiring DIY curtains you can make yourself

How to hang curtains with staples -- and other brilliant DIY curtain ideas!

I’m okay with the price of domestic plane tickets in general. I know you were wondering. Not that I enjoy paying for them, but I generally feel that transporting me through the air, defying gravity, is a service that should cost something. If Delta tried to send me to California for $3.99, I might feel […]

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Reader Questions: How to handle dark wood paneling?

It’s been a while since we’ve done a reader questions post, but I LOVE ’em, and here’s why: every time I post, you guys just spew brilliance and hilarity all over the comments section, so I know y’all are little decorating geniuses and these posts are my favorite way to showcase that! If you missed […]

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How to completely mess up your kitchen remodel: a step-by-step tutorial

slate tile backsplash at view along the way

Once upon a time, a cute boy and a decor-obsessed girl bought a fixer-upper, and gutted the kitchen, giving the girl the chance to create her dream kitchen. Finally, those years of living in tiny rentals and gazing longingly at home photos and magazines would pay off! There was no reason for the new kitchen […]

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House-iversary Week: Lessons Learned from Our First House

You know how last week, I was all: “It’s House-iversary week!!” And then it got to be THIS week, and I’m still going on about it? I meant “week” in the sense of: “a period of time whose length is still undecided.” I guess I had more to say about the last five years than […]

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House-iversary: Then and Now (Part 2)

Bathroom with dark wood and slate tile

In the last post, I showed y’all the progress we’ve made through our house – and some of the projects we did pre-blogging – since we bought our house five years ago this week. That was all downstairs stuff. You know, where company can see. Today we’re venturing up the stairs, to rooms I don’t […]

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House-iversary: Then and Now (Part 1)

Dining room with dark walls, crown molding and chair rail at www.viewalongtheway.com

We’re celebrating five years in our house this week with a little house-iversary celebration. (Thanks for your sweet comments on the last post!) I thought it’d be fun to look back at how our house has evolved over the last five years and share some of the big projects we did pre-blogging. Also a case […]

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House-iversary Celebration: Our House Story

This week marks five years since we closed on our own little slice of dirt and pile of lumber. It’s a funny milestone to Andy and me, because when we were house-hunting, we thought were just shopping for a five-year house. We just assumed we’d be ready to move after that. At the time, this […]

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Wood-stain typography art tutorial

Typography art piece - simple DIY project

I don’t mean to brag… But I have to be honest: My friends are all kinds of incredible. Exhibit A: Cassie from Primitive and Proper came down and spent the whole weekend with me last weekend and we had SO MUCH FUN. She shared the whole play-by-play right here… …which I am reluctant to even […]

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Ditto DIY + Easy Yarn Art Project

Easy DIY crafts: yarn art

WOOOOT! Time for the July Ditto DIY challenge! Remember how this works? Once a month, we’ll all replicate a couture design idea in our own homes and share them here. Ditto DIY is hosted by ten bloggers, but it’s about all of us – you and me – incorporating fine design elements into our homes […]

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Three things we need to discuss + {June sponsors}

1. Remember in the last sponsored post when I anguished about the state of my shamrock plant, which was apparently trying to die while very similar clovers in my yard just inches away were thriving? WELL. The more I wrote that post, the more heated up and passionately angry I got at my shamrock. What […]

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