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Painting Tips Choosing An Accent Color Recently I had a subscriber ask me a painting tips question. "How do you decide what accent color to add on a piece of furniture that has details". This is a great question and one that I'm going to try to explain to you today.   Tips For Using An Accent Color This is one of my biggest painting tips on adding a highlight paint color on a piece of furniture. Use white or yellow based white paint color.  I always have these colors on hand. These colors can be used to accent any color. Let's say you're painting a piece of furniture Taupe and you want to highlight the details. I would use a yellow based white, because it's not as stark as the white. Unless you use pure white and soften it with another color as I did with this table. I added a ... View Post

Flooring Ideas Wood Ceramic VS Carpeting When we were building our current home we researched flooring ideas for our home. But, because of our budget we had to install carpeting in most of our rooms, some vinyl tile and solid wood floors. If money wasn't an issue we would have installed hardwood flooring in our entire home, with the exception of our bathrooms and laundry room. (This post contains affiliate links, see disclosure policy) In our previous home we ripped our our carpeting and had hardwood floors installed in every room, including the closets. With the exception of two bathrooms and our laundry room. I loved having those wood floors. They were so easy to keep clean and I never had to vacuum. Our current home will be ten years old in a few months and I'd love to ... View Post

House Decorating Ideas For Fall Fall is a time of warm colors, and cool nights. Although my home isn't filled with rich warm colors, I work with what I have in my home. Here are a few fall house decorating ideas and tips that will help bring a little fall into your home without putting all of your everyday decor away.   Fall House Decorating Ideas Decorate you're own pumpkins to add soft touches. You can see how I created that mosaic pumpkin photographed above HERE. Use real or faux flowers that have touches of fall. One of my favorite tips for house decorating ideas is using flowers from your garden. My favorite flowers this time of the year are my hydrangeas, especially this time of the year. They start to change color and have bits of green, and pink. If you ... View Post

Craft Ideas That Make Fall Fun! Okay if you know me you might be laughing at that title. Because I'm a total summer girl. So why would fall craft ideas be fun? Well, I'm glad you asked. I don't decorate much for this season. And what I do use to decorate I keep with my own personal style and decor. I'm sure you can tell that I'm not into the color orange as it's not in my home color palette. But, there are ways of adding fall decor to your home using colors you have in your home. Today I'm going to share a few simple craft ideas that you can create and custom make it to suit your home decor, along with a few tips for you. Paper Mache Pumpkin These paper mache pumpkins can be painted, or you can create a mosaic pattern as I did. This is super easy to do. If you can rip paper and ... View Post

Decorating On A Budget For Fall I can't believe I'm starting to think about decorating for fall, and it's still August. You know how much I love summer. But as the days get cooler, I feel the need to share a little inspiration with you. I'm not ready to start decorating for fall, so instead I decided to create an inspiration board with a few ideas. (This post contains affiliate links, please read disclosure policy) If you've been following me for awhile you may have noticed that I don't over decorate for fall. I like keeping things simple and when possible I use things in my home or backyard. But sometimes changes are needed and you can't always find what you're looking for at a thrift store. Even so, I need to stay on a budget. If you're thinking about adding fall decor to your ... View Post