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A few weeks ago, we painted our front door. ORANGE. We painted it ORANGE. Bright crazy shiny wild ORANGE.
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I was going to take a photo of our house and go “photoshop-crazy” to find the appropriate orange color to pick, but Mr. M thought it would be much more fun to [...]

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I adore simple decorations. Things that look so elegant in their minimal state of being. But I loathe paying lots of money for it. I actually bought some sea glass the other day only because it was on sale… which is silly, because I adore sea glass and wish it was sitting in vases [...]

. Yes… I am aware of the fact that it is now May, and not April. But this lovely garden fountain was a birthday present from my parents, and it now share little april showers on a daily basis with us and the whole neighborhood. I adore fountains – little tabletop ones, wall fountains, [...]

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Before the baby arrived, I made a conscious effort to clean up the closet. It certainly didn’t get organized by any means, but all those clothes/shoes/etc. I neglected for 6 months did get sorted and stowed away. But I’m still dreaming of a super organization system in there… and I’ll still get big wide-open [...]

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Dear Mr. Dishwasher-that-came-with-the-house,

I know you were only a mere 5 years old, but sadly you just never lived up to your potential. We were happy to see that you were in apparently good working order when we came into the house, but that’s when you began to exhibit strange characteristics. Sometimes you [...]

[source: Young House Love]
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One of the most daunting tasks of being a homeowner is invariably making your home “yours.” When you’ve relied heavily on the style of IKEA or hand-me-downs… it’s hard to jump out of that box and find what YOU are really all about. Sometimes you can find [...]

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Christmas in our entryroom is an aglow in gold and bronze. We’ve tried our best to keep the room glowing with the orange wall accents, and slowly but surely we’re adding more to enhance the holidays in the room. This year, the ‘not so real tree’ is adorned in a cavalcade of last year’s [...]