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Our Plank+Beam dining table: an honest review

March 14, 2024 in Interior

Last week, we upgraded our secondhand kitchen table to a bigger, more modern dining table from Plank+Beam. Since it was our first time buying furniture from this website, I wanted to share our honest experience so that you have the inside scoop. Spoiler alert:...

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Fall 2023 updates! 🍂

October 17, 2023 in Exterior, Interior

Hello again! It’s been a little while since we’ve blogged, but we’re back with some mini updates! We hope everyone enjoyed the warm summer months as much as we did. Rather than working on house projects, we spent most of our weekends visiting Cape...

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How to clean your couch like a pro!

January 26, 2023 in Interior

If you’ve been following our Instagram stories lately, you know that we recently bought an upholstery cleaner. We’ve had our eye on the Little Green Proheat cleaner by Bissell for a while, so when we noticed it on sale on Target (thank goodness for...

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DIY faux shiplap accent wall

December 15, 2022 in Interior

Do you ever feel like a room in your house is missing something? Well, we’ve always felt that way about our bedroom. It was the first room we painted when we moved in, but for some reason, it never felt finished. We painted the...

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How to paint wooden windows

January 21, 2022 in Interior

When we first bought our house, we knew we had a lot of painting ahead of us. All of the ceilings and walls needed a fresh coat of paint to clean things up, and the trim and windows were a dark wood that just...

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Easy DIY closet shelves

April 16, 2021 in Interior

You know the feeling when you look at something so much, that you don’t really notice it anymore? This is what happened with our bathroom closet. Before we moved into our house in 2016, we had a total renovation done on our bathroom. New...

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Let’s talk caulk: 10 simple steps for caulking trim

March 8, 2021 in Interior

If you caught our latest post about building a board and batten accent wall, then you’ve seen most of our office room by now. There are a few angles and furniture pieces that we haven’t shown yet, so stay tuned for our whole office...

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How to make a fancy board & batten accent wall

January 31, 2021 in Interior

New Year, new project! Happy 2021 everyone. We’re starting out the new year by taking on a fun project that we’ve been talking about doing since the summer: making a board and batten accent wall in our office. And since we like to be...

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How to paint louvered doors with a paint sprayer

November 2, 2020 in Interior

Our house has a total of THIRTEEN louvered closet doors. What are louvered doors, you ask? They are shutter-like wood doors with horizontal slats, and small spaces in between the slats to allow for ventilation. They are great for small, closed-off spaces like closets...

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Our whole house paint colors

October 19, 2020 in Interior

Hi everyone! It’s about time we share with you the paint colors we used in our whole house. We’re breaking down each paint color, so that you can see what works for our living areas, and maybe it will work for you too! Our...

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