Decorating
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A Red and Blue Christmas Table and A Christmas Dinner Menu
Happy Holidays! I can’t believe that Christmas is already here. I thought I’d just quickly share our Christmas Dinner Menu & Red and Blue Christmas Table plans. It’s a little traditional, a little coastal, a little Scandinavian-inspired… you get the idea… as usual… just making throwing-in-everything-I’m-drawn-to and creating my made-up style 😉
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Modern Traditional Christmas Kitchen
Hello and Happy Holidays! This time of year is always a whirlwind with holiday gatherings, kids’ concerts, school parties, and all of the fun!!! I’m currently trying, trying, trying to keep it simple in our Modern Traditional Christmas Kitchen. Also, admittedly, I ran out of time with my refusal to decorate until after Thanksgiving and the shorter span of weeks between it and Christmas. Sometimes routines are good, sometimes not so much. Oh well!
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Elegant Dining Room Refresh- One Room Challenge (ORC), Week 3 Updates
Hi! It’s the 3rd week of the One Room Challenge for our Elegant Dining Room Refresh, and we keep getting delayed. If you missed last week, Gretchen and I attempted to stain and paint a console table. You can learn everything we learned not to do (haha!) in the post here. You can see how all of it will fit together into her Dining Room Refresh here.
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How to Paint a Console Table: Lessons Learned
Hello there and Happy Fall! I finally, begrudgingly, turned on the heat this week. I guess autumn is officially here! Apple picking and all the plaid blankets, here we come! This week, for the One Room Challenge, Gretchen and I semi-focused (it’s hard to stay on one topic and in one room!) on how to paint a console table that was recently gifted to her.
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Dining Room Design Board
Dining Room Design Board WELCOME Hi there! It’s been awhile. I’m hoping to get back into the blog swing now that it’s October. Fingers crossed. Gretchen and I have decided to enter the One Room Challenge (ORC- you can check out all of the entries and their progress on the One Room Challenge blog here) with a dining room design this fall and refresh her dining room. She has already incorporated so many lovely pieces since she moved in a few years ago.
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Beautiful Pendant Kitchen Lighting
Hi All! You may have guessed from the last post about Vancouver. Or the captions on Instagram. We have been on the hunt for pendant kitchen lighting. And finding inspiration everywhere. Just look at the lighting in these restaurants we visited. The Inspiration Beautiful Pendant Kitchen Lighting I have narrowed the list to nine pendants because even nine choices are too many for me to chose from! Just a little background… We have decided to paint our kitchen cabinets a deep green with aged brass hardware. This, paired with our old marble, is going to look very classic… which is exactly what R is going for. Me? I’m going for…
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Ceiling Fans: Low-to-High Pricing
Welcome! Welcome to Mackinaw Road: Ceiling Fans Edition. After A LOT of searching, here are my Top 8 Ceiling Fans organized in low-to-high pricing. It All Started with a Nursery As you may know, I get to help with the nursery for my future niece and nephew (I’m so excited to meet these babies!!!) The nursery is coming along well, and it has been so much fun to get to visit with my sister-in-law every week! As part of the refresh, we decided to replace the current ceiling fan. Which sent me on a search for ceiling fans. And that is a bit of a rabbit hole, to be honest.…
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Cottage Style IKEA Decor
Hi there! Today I’m talking about Cottage Style IKEA Decor. More specifically, possible ideas for how to decorate a cottage using IKEA in a strategic way. Believe it or not, this Scandinavian style can fairly effortlessly be incorporated into cottage decor. We really didn’t mean to go overboard with our IKEA purchases and didn’t even do it all at once. And yet, almost every room has something from IKEA in it! I don’t think that you’d look into the rooms and think IKEA immediately. Maybe you would. For whatever reason, we don’t, though. Regardless, I think I’ll just take you on a little tour of our Beach Cabin and the…
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Beach Cabin Screened in Porch: ORC, Week 6
The Beach Cabin Screened In Porch is finished! Sort of. I could blame it on the rain. Or a busy spring. Or training for a 25k. I could… Anyway, the porch is mostly finished. I’d love to add a new wall light. It has been purchased but needs to be installed. I also had grand plans of adding some curtains out there. We’ll see. The sailing line plans are also on a brief hold. (You can read all about them in last week’s post here.) In fact, if you are new here and want to catch up on the topsy turvy Beach Cabin Screened In Porch plans, you can click on…
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Beach Cabin Porch, ORC Week 5
Hi there! It has been raining almost all week (and even snowed last Saturday!) which made painting the Beach Cabin Porch difficult to say the least. The rain finally cleared on Friday and our family is spending the weekend enjoying the nice spring weather. I may have even asked/begged for a little help getting the porch ready.
