Centsible DIY

Nail Gun: Wordless Wednesday

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

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

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!

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!

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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Mini Bathroom Remodel

Renovating is not a quick process no matter how well your plans are laid, and my mini bathroom makeover this weekend was no exception. I planned a mini-makeover to help de-moldify the bathroom, and make it more liveable for the meantime since a full gut isn’t in the budget, yet. Mini makeovers are a great [...]

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Family Room Renovation Update

I’ve been getting a lot of readers asking for an update on our family room progress. Let’s just say it’s slooooow (you’ve heard that before right?). We took about 6 weeks off due to crazy schedules with work, family, and the Vex (my husband runs the club and leading up to our trip to DisneyWorld [...]

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Pinterest: Pinning for inspiration, laughs, and bookmarking

I recently discovered Pinterest (thanks to Danielle). I am so in love with it as an inspirational tool for all my DIY projects, a bookmarking system for articles, visual interpretation of my life list, and so much more. Since I’ve embraced being paperless, this is a perfect way for me to put a pin digitally [...]

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How to paint a fireplace: DIY Tuesday

Painting the fireplace and brick wall was high on my list of priorities for the family room remodel. While I love brick, and am not generally a fan of painted brick. The way the house is setup you see that brick wall from the kitchen looking into the family room, and the size of both [...]

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Shabby Chic Table: DIY Tuesday

I ‘inherited’ a lovely half circle table from my mom. I think I took it from her basement about 14 years ago, and when I first got it I spray painted it black (it had already been painted that way but needed a touch up). A few years later I decided to strip it, but [...]