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| By John Petersik | November 11, 2019 |

#154: How To Pare Down When Everything Is Precious

Getting rid of stuff is hard, especially when it comes to kids and their creations. So this week we’re sharing the simple trick we use to keep everything from arts and crafts to forts and cardboard box villages from taking over our house, without putting a damper on creativity. Spoiler alert: this trick works for adults and our favorite things too! Plus, armed with an expert’s advice and a new guideline for how much indoor greenery a home should have for optimal air quality, Sherry doubles down on our home’s plant collection. Also, why things got weird when we switched sides of the bed – and the embarrassing dangers of moving furniture. What’s New Update

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| By Sherry Petersik | November 7, 2019 |

Painting Our Brick House White!

White Painted Brick House With Fall Leaves

The weather hasn’t been perfect for photos and our landscaping isn’t looking it’s finest at the moment, but I’M SO FREAKING EXCITED ABOUT OUR PAINTED BRICK HOUSE that I can’t wait any longer to share pictures! I am unable to even. And I’m a 36 year old suburban mom, so that’s saying something. Today we’re giving all the details about painting our brick house white: Our house is so heartbreakingly beautiful I literally would not be surprised if it started glimmering in the sun like Edward the vampire from Twilight. GO WITH ME HERE, THIS POST IS GONNA HAVE A LOT OF CAPS LOCK. You have been warned. And I’ll try to go easy on the

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Filed Under: Favorites, Home Improvement, Our Third House, Outside, Painting

| By Sherry Petersik | November 6, 2019 |

How To Hang Peel & Stick Wallpaper

Tall Board And Batten Treatment With Wallpaper Border

Adding wallpaper to the middle bedroom at our beach house took us just a few hours and cost us less than $100. It’s a whole lotta bang for not much buck (or extra high skill level). Plus it’s 100% removable so if we ever tire of it or want to swap it for something else, it’s no big deal. Certainly less trouble than removing traditional wallpaper! So in this post we’ll show you exactly how we hung it, including a video I took of my lovely husband hanging a panel for you in real-time while I talk and point (you know, the things I’m most known for). Selecting Your Wallpaper There were two strategic choices

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Filed Under: Crafting & Art, Decorating, Favorites, Our Beach House

| By John Petersik | November 4, 2019 |

#153: Easy Ways To Make Your Day Less Annoying

You guys submitted your favorite life hacks over the last few weeks, so today we’ve got an episode bursting at the seams with all of those cheap & simple tricks for making your home run smoother and your day a little less frustrating. We’ve got everything from clever cleaning tips and unconventional storage ideas to both high and low tech ways to keep you more organized. We’re also sharing why we’re giving a BIG EYEROLL to the latest part of our bathroom renovation and a new money saving tool that we got for our kids. What’s New Life threw us some curveballs this week so we didn’t get very deep into the “unglamorous middle” of

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| By John Petersik | November 1, 2019 | 261 Comments

Thanksgiving Craft: A Glass “Thanks Jar”

Thanksgiving craft project with glass etching craft

A little glass etching cream, a homemade stencil and thrifted apothecary jar and suddenly we’ve got the perfect spot to show off what we’re thankful for.

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Filed Under: Crafting & Art, Holiday & Entertaining

| By John Petersik | October 28, 2019 |

#152: The Haunted Room At Our Beach House

In honor of Halloween, we’re sharing a spooky occurrence at our beach house that we legitimately couldn’t explain for a few months (even I, the perennial skeptic, was like… “how did that just happen?!”). We’re also chatting with author Miranda Anderson about how her entire family took on a yearlong shopping ban, and how that choice led to more gratitude, patience, and a sense of adventure for the entire family. Plus, an update on how things are getting real (and real messy!) in our bathroom reno – and a tool we’re using to help keep our sanity throughout the process. What’s New Here’s a peek at the current state of our bathroom after all of

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| By John Petersik | October 21, 2019 |

#151: When Is It Worth It To Splurge?

Today we’re sharing how two recent treat yourself moments in our house turned sideways on us and how it shed some light on when to splurge and when to make like Elsa and let it go. One even involves a feature in our bathroom reno that we’ve dreamed about for years, but suddenly can’t seem to justify in actual practice (although it sounds great in theory!). Also after nearly 11,000 people took our “Side Of The Bed” survey, we have some surprising insights about why people sleep where they do. Plus there’s been another Color of the Year development and we find the silver lining to a recent personal event that shook us up. What’s

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| By John Petersik | October 15, 2019 |

Ikea Kitchen Costs – A Full Breakdown

Duplex Kitchen With Blue Cabinets And Pink Patterned Backsplash

As our bathroom reno continues (current status: more demo happened, our vanity, tub, & toilet arrived, and we have our plumber & electrician scheduled to rough things in and then we can prep & tile) we thought it would be fun to share a duplex kitchen budget breakdown. *Also, for anyone who has inquired about renting the duplex this fall, there’s an announcement about that later in the post* Obviously, there are LOTS of factors that affect how expensive a kitchen renovation will be, so let this post just be a reference point for you – not a prescription for how much a kitchen reno should cost. The average kitchen reno in 2019 was $24,047

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| By John Petersik | October 14, 2019 |

#150: Changing Our Minds About Our House (Again)

Our home’s exterior makeover didn’t stop with painting it white last year, so today we’re catching you up on some projects we’ve completed and what’s still to come (and it involves something we’ve changed our minds about twice). We’re also reflecting on a few experiments & interviews over the past 149 episodes that truly changed the way we live in our house – and we’re issuing a challenge to help us all find some new ways to improve our household routines and daily lives. Plus, we look into why someone might buy a house they’ve never seen, located in a town they’ve never been to (!!!). The idea may be less crazy than it sounds…

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| By Sherry Petersik | October 9, 2019 |

Our Bathroom Reno: The Floor Plan & Picking Tile

Ok, now we’re cooking with gas! Maybe I shouldn’t use that expression for a bathroom reno… ANYWAY… we’ve made lots of progress since partially demo-ing the room last week (more on that here), and wanted to share our final floorpan with you (IT’S SUCH A GIANT IMPROVEMENT!) and our final tile picks (along with a few other things we debated, why we chose what we chose, etc). So here’s the old bathroom layout. Yes we lived with it like this for over six years. Yes, it was A LOT of doors (the one leading from the hall to our bedroom is right behind where the tub is below – so there were five in a

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| By John Petersik | October 7, 2019 |

#149: The Episode That Made Me A Plant Lady

We’re sharing how our bathroom reno went from zero to fifty percent (that’ll make more sense when you hear what we did) and how we gained a ton of insight about the right layout and the right size for the vanity, shower, tub, etc. Also… the houseplant struggle is real, so we asked plant expert Carmeon Hamilton everything we’ve ever wanted to know about how to keep inside greenery alive (and happy!). She shared her favorite easy plants for beginners and even laid out when to water, re-pot, and fertilize your indoor greenery (we were like: wait, we should be fertilizing?!?). Plus, we’re shouting out a super handy multipurpose tool that we loved so much

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Filed Under: Plants, Podcast

| By Sherry Petersik | October 2, 2019 |

4 Decorating Tricks For A Smoother Makeover

We’re in the midst of two room redos right now and I couldn’t be more excited about them! One is our bathroom reno that we shared last week, and the other is a much lighter and less dusty one, which involves zero demo or wall moving, but a whole lot of function that we’ll be gaining (plus a wall treatment + wallpaper, which thrills me to no end). We’re “reconfiguring” the middle bedroom at our beach house, which used to look like this. Yes, it’s a very small room that was basically all bed: Having a lighter room redo running in the background while we wait for orders like our bathroom tub & vanity to

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Filed Under: Decorating, Favorites, Our Beach House, Project Planning

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