Centsible DIY

Built-In Desk Inspires Organizing & $100 Lowe’s Giveaway

January 27, 2012

I didn’t realize when I started organizing that it was going to make me feel so revitalized. Several days into it I started to feel so free and rejuvenated. I started to organize to finally begin my built-in desk project. I don’t have a junk drawer. I have had a junk room, otherwise known as [...]

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Garbage to Gorgeous

January 10, 2012

My girls love to make art and my 9 year old is especially good at finding use for ‘found’ objects like paper towel rolls, shoeboxes, and our recycling. A few weeks ago she found a pot the neighbors had put out on trash day. It was clear it had been outside and the paint that [...]

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Barn Beam Mantel

December 29, 2011

One of the big items on our to-do list for the family room was building a new mantel for over the fireplace. The existing mantel was a thick but not deep piece of wood stained a dark walnut color. When I removed the mantel during our demo phase it was nailed into the brick and [...]

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Family Room Reveal Part Two

December 21, 2011

As I shared in my super lengthy post about our family room remodel it took a grand total of 9 months (and several thousand words) to share what changes we made. When I did my big reveal several photos were missing, and so was a big room wide shot. That was intentional since we had [...]

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How To Create Toy Storage

December 13, 2011

Every year at the beginning of December I go through the playroom with a fine tooth comb, cleaning out the toys that are broken, and those that can be donated. After 4 hours, 3 garbage bags full of toys to donate, and 4 garbage filled with trash, the playroom was spotless. I decided to move [...]

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Nail Gun: Wordless Wednesday

November 30, 2011

While we were finishing up our family room remodel we had to install trim work and molding. To make the job easier we bought a nail gun, so for the first time I got to live out my Trading Spaces dream of wielding a nail gun. (thankfully that didn’t mean coming home to hay wall) [...]

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Before & After: Family Room

November 29, 2011

See more before and after photos here, and check out our barn beam mantel. While this isn’t quite finished, I’m so, so happy that after 9 loooong months we finally have our family room back! Yes, it took nearly as long as birthing a baby. Mostly that was due to our increasingly busy lives, and [...]

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DIY Thanksgiving Table Decorations

November 16, 2011

I love the color palette that surrounds Thanksgiving. The rich earthy, and often vibrant jewel tones, are so warm and inviting. Mixing deep reds with rust oranges and mustard yellows exudes a sense of homeyness that no other color combination can replicate. For this reason it was easy to decide on the color palette for [...]

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DIY Halloween Decorations & a $50 Lowe’s Giveaway!

October 27, 2011

Welcome Candice (from Fashionably Organized) who will be sharing her crafty side with us over the next few months as a member of Lowe’s Creator and Influencer Network. Every month she will share a new project inspired by Lowe’s Creative Ideas a free magazine that features step by step ideas for DIY and craft projects. When [...]

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Spooky House: Spiders, Monsters, Ghosts, oh my!

October 20, 2011

Halloween decorations can be pricey but since my family loves Halloween, and loves decorating for Halloween even more we have come up with a few inexpensive ideas for creating a spooookkkky house. How to Make a Monster House My husband came up with this idea, and he an my 13 year old figured out a [...]

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