Teaching Old Houses New Tricks

Renovations & Real Estate

Okay, y’all. My mudroom is *actually* done now, because we’re leaving the country on Tuesday, but you don’t get to see it until the final reveal, so you’ll have to come back at this time next week. What I can show you, however, is that I painted the board and batten. It took a lot […]

One Room Challenge

October 31, 2019

Mudroom Makeover: One Room Challenge Week 5

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Hey there! This week’s post may be slightly boring, because not a whole lot has changed visually… but a lot has been done. This post is also going to be somewhat brief, because I’ve been down for the count the past couple days and am catching up on life outside my mudroom and the internet. […]

One Room Challenge, Our House

October 25, 2019

Mudroom Makeover: ORC Week 4

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Here we are, folks! Whoa, we’re halfway there there (cue Bon Jovi). If you walked into our laundry room right now, you’d think that it doesn’t look like we got a lot done this week, but trust me, what looks like nothing was actually a lot of work. You’ll just have to take my word […]

One Room Challenge, Our House

October 17, 2019

Mudroom Makeover: One Room Challenge Week 3

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Welcome back to our One Room Challenge room for Fall 2019: our mudroom! So many things have happened this week. And the frustrating thing about home projects… is that you can’t actually see them. I changed my vision this week for our mudroom about… eight million times. Not exaggerating, because I NEVER exaggerate. But in […]

One Room Challenge, Our House

October 10, 2019

Mudroom Makeover: One Room Challenge Week 2

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Hey y’all! You may be wondering what the One Room Challenge is, and why I’m doing it. Let’s break down what exactly this challenge involves: every Thursday from October 3 (today!) to November 7, twenty designers and unlimited guest participants will post updates on the room they’ve chosen to makeover. I’m participating as a guest, […]

Our House

October 3, 2019

One Room Challenge Week 1: Mudroom

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Thank you all so much for your kind words and comments on social media about my last post about our living room! I’m loving finishing projects in our house, and I love having projects to look forward to, but it’s also such a good feeling to be able to sit down in a room that […]

Friday Favorites

September 20, 2019

Friday Favorites – September 20, 2019

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Drumroll please…. our first “after” photos are here! If you need a refresher on the “before” photos for our house, click here. We bought our 1926 bungalow in Nashville in March 2019, and I’m going room by room through our house renovating and redecorating. I’ll share each room as I finish them, one at a time! Our living room is the place we spend a lot of time when we’re home, and the place we do a lot of our entertaining, so it was important to me to get it finished first.

Our House

September 18, 2019

Living Room – After

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I know it’s September, but it’s technically still summer, y’all. Now, before you start throwing pumpkins at me, google it–fall officially begins on September 23rd (nerd alert!). But seriously, we’ve got to hang on to the last shreds of summer and long days when the sun stays up with you until late in the evening. […]

Dessert, Recipes

September 5, 2019

Blueberry Coffee Cake with Lemon Icing – (With Dairy Free Option)

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I got so busy on Friday that I wasn’t able to post my Friday Favorites… so here are my Sunday Favorites! Not nearly as catchy… or alliterative. Oh well. Tomorrow is Labor Day, which means there are tons of great sales happening right now, especially in home goods. I’ve put together a list of my […]

Friday Favorites

September 1, 2019

My 7 Favorite Labor Day Home Decor Sales

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It’s been a couple weeks due to 1) vacation and 2) not having my life together enough to post a blog post, but I’M BACK. It’s time for my weekly roundup of some of my favorite things from around the internet and Nashville–enjoy! In case you missed it, I posted this Sourdough Strawberry Shortcake recipe […]

Friday Favorites

August 23, 2019

Friday Favorites: August 22, 2019

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