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20 Flagstone Patio Ideas (From Someone Who Actually Laid One)
My husband and I spent a Fourth of July weekend laying flagstone in our backyard instead of going to anyone’s barbecue, and by Sunday night my lower back understood things about itself it had never needed to know. Worth it? Mostly. Would I do a few things differently? Also yes, and that’s basically the whole…
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18 Farmhouse Kitchen Shelves Ideas That Don’t Look Like Everyone Else’s Pinterest Board
I ripped the upper cabinets out of my kitchen on a Tuesday night with a crowbar I borrowed from my downstairs neighbor, and by Wednesday morning I had a very real, very open hole where storage used to be and zero plan for what came next. That’s the honest version of how I ended up…
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13 Best Basement Bar Ideas (From Someone Who’s Redone Two of Them)
The first basement bar I ever built was in a rental — a corner of an unfinished basement with a card table, a mini fridge, and some string lights, and I was still proud enough of it to have people over every Friday for a year. The second one was in my brother-in-law Dave’s actual…
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20 Top Olive Green Kitchen Ideas (From Someone Who Almost Chickened Out)
I stood in the paint aisle at Sherwin-Williams for 45 minutes with four olive green swatches taped to a piece of cardboard, genuinely afraid I was about to ruin my kitchen. That was two years ago. I did it anyway — full cabinet repaint, olive green lower cabinets, and it’s still the room in my…
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21 Stamped Concrete Patio Ideas (From Someone Who Got a Bad Quote First)
My first stamped concrete quote was for a “slate” pattern that, when the contractor finally sent photos of a finished job, looked like someone had pressed a waffle iron into wet cement and called it a day. I almost signed anyway because I was tired of looking at bids. I didn’t, and six months later…
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20 Small Closet Organization Bedroom Ideas That Actually Work in a Real Apartment
My first apartment closet was 22 inches wide. I measured it, out of spite, after the third time I tried to hang a coat and knocked my entire shoe shelf onto the floor. That closet taught me more about small closet organization for a bedroom than any Pinterest board ever did, mostly because Pinterest boards…