A cleaning challenge, inspired by my boy’s minimalist bedroom

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Happy New Year! And before you say, “Boy, your photography staging is slipping…” This post will not be pretty. But it will be real. When I returned home from my Christmas vacation, the first thing I noticed upon walking into my home was ‘dust’. I couldn’t see it, but I sure could smell it. Or […]

Let there be white! And black. Teen boy’s bedroom progress.

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Work, work, work continues on the boy’s room. And I am making progress! Although it is going slow. There were so many undone things in this room that needed attention. And now I know why I didn’t take the time to do it before. Because I had never done some of this stuff before. Avoid […]

My favorite ceiling painting gear and tips

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Well, what a difference a gallon of paint and a few hours makes! Here’s the very blue before I told you about in THIS post. Aaaaand, here’s the AFTER! As you can see, I was so excited about getting this completed, I snapped pics while the paint was still wet. But no matter… it covered […]

Firing up the boy’s bedroom once again

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In my past few posts, I’ve sorda hinted that I’ve been doing a TON of purging and cleaning up, but little to show for it. In all honestly, I’ve started so many unfinished things, the weather has been dictating what I continue with next. When it’s nice, I’m cranking up the curb appeal with pruning, pressure […]

Cool, not cute! (the making of a boy’s teen room)

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This week, my son and I will be working on a special feature wall in his teen bedroom remake. With him gone over the weekend, I decided to roll up my sleeveless summer sleeves and dig in DEEP, morphing his room from cute to cool. It’s quite a process, this age leap.  No box, drawer, […]