Beautiful light switches and outlets can be the finishing touch your home needs! The Legrand adorne® collection brings both style and function to our home with everything from basic switches and pop out outlets to Alexa integration. You know how the perfect statement jewelry can take your outfit from okay to fabulous? I found the equivalent accessory that took our house…
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The Power of a Rug Swap {Fast Fix Friday}
I think rugs are my favorite way to quickly transform the look and feel of a room in a major way. They’re also one of my favorite ways to give a room a more polished or finished feel, which I showed back in this post about our living room. The dark side is that it’s hard to make a room feel…
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How to Clean Makeup Brushes – Fast Fix Friday
How OFTEN should I clean my makeup brushes? What should I use to clean them? I did some research and put a new product to the test! My recently organized makeup station is still working so much better than anything I’ve tried before. But having everything all nice and neat made me realize how long I had been slacking on…
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Cordless Vacuum Review – Shark IONFlex 2x DuoClean
We’ve got a new tool in the fight against dog hair covering our wood floors – the Shark IONFlex 2x DuoClean vacuum! The biggest struggle we have keeping our house clean comes courtesy of Maddie. She sheds more dog hair than I ever knew was possible. And the dang hair doesn’t even cooperate and stay where we can quickly vacuum…
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Secrets to Saving Money on New Home Decor
Cheap home decor is something most of us are after, but we don’t want it to look cheap, right? I pulled together my favorite ways to stretch our decorating budget in style! Shopping for decor is one of my favorite things, but the money can get out of control fast. Until I strike oil in the backyard, we’ve had to…
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Do You Have To “Have the Eye” for Interior Design? {Reader Q & A}
I recently received a reader question that made me stop in my tracks. She had been taught that you either have good taste or you don’t. And that you have the eye for design or you don’t. I was almost brought to tears thinking that she had been brainwashed into thinking that perhaps she’d never be able to create the…
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Organizing the Makeup Vanity & A Bit of Jewelry
My mission to get all my beauty/bathroom products organized in a more functional way continued this week! Last week was all about the bathroom counter and tub surround. Today I tackled the biggest mess – the makeup vanity in the closet. Let’s go back a moment before we go forward. Once upon a time, this area of my closet looked…
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