Category Archives: My First House

Sometimes thing just don’t go the way you expect, or want, them to. Take these homemade brownies I tried to make with a can of black beans. Definitely a mistake. Thankfully, most of these things aren’t disastrous by any means, just mistakes. Well, my friends, I have come close to disastrous with this new little…

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I’m sure you haven’t forgotten reading all about our sophisticated, adult retreat monkey infused master bathroom. We like to keep things real. Real fun that is. So two new things have swung into that bathroom recently. Don’t you like when you are browsing through a place and just by happen chance you find the perfect…

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Thump, thump. Thump, thump. Don’t you hear the heavy pounding of our house’s heart? Because it is a strong and healthy heartbeat we have going on. What do I mean? I mean the heart of our home, the kitchen, is alive, strong, and oh-so-pretty! Yup, we are finally done with our list o’ projects to…

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The kitchen is done! The kitchen is done (for now)! Yahoo! It all began with this kitchen and this list: Paint yellow cabinet white Paint pea green garbage compactor black Paint yellow walls tan Put up new back splash Put up under mount cabinet lighting(shown in the backsplash post) Change light fixtures above the kitchen and…

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No, I don’t mean that we are skinning it…that thought train just gets too weird. I mean that the kitchen has literally gone tan! At least the walls have gone tan. That means the final part of our yellow kitchen is gone, gone, gone! Here are the before pictures of the kitchen (I mean way…

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