Since I’m still waiting for fabric to arrive so that I can continue on my dining room projects, I decided to turn my attention to the storage room yesterday. I can’t waste any time, so any progress on either of these two remaining rooms is fine with me. And you might be surprised at what...

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This past weekend, I had to get one last pretty important non-house-related task out of the way so that I could spend the next two months fully focused on getting the last two rooms finished before the end of the year. Unfortunately, I had to spend the weekend doing our taxes. If you’re an American,...

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Y’all, can you believe that we’re at the end of October, and we only have two more months left in 2026?! I don’t know about you, but for me, this year feels like it has absolutely flown by! I feel like I’ve gotten a lot accomplished this year, but now it’s time for that final...

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As most of you know, I have lunch with my mom every Wednesday, and at some point during most of our lunches, we talk about my latest projects. So naturally, the textural artwork that I want to create for the dining room was a topic of conversation yesterday. We sat there and discussed various ways...

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The dining room projects are coming along, but I’m still waiting for fabric to arrive so that I can finish up the main projects. In the meantime, I did finally get my wall sconce makeovers finished. I started painting these sconces last week, but then I had an issue with the gold spray paint leaving...

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Over the weekend, I got quite a bit of work done on the benches for the dining room. I’m building two identical benches to flank the pantry doorway, and these will be upholstered in a dark pink (raspberry?) velvet fabric. At this point, I’m undecided on the color that I will use for the bases....

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I’m at the point in the dining room makeover where I feel like I’m so close to the finish line, but I have a few roadblocks in my way. The roadblocks are almost always of my own making, like taking so to finalize fabric decisions, so now I’m having to wait for fabric to arrive...

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Well, I thought I was done talking about the striped fabric pattern, but I had a few people ask for more information on how I made the repeatable, seamless fabric pattern using AI, and specifically, using ChatGPT. So I wanted to give more details on the process from start to finish. To be clear, I...

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I know some of you are probably getting tired of hearing about striped fabric by now. Actually, I’m tired of talking about it, and I’m tired of working on it. But I often hear from people who enjoy watching my whole process and my hearing about my thought process in making decisions, so if that’s...

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Yesterday, I shared three lamp options for the buffet in the dining room, and I got quite a few comments saying that I should use sconces instead. To be honest, my initial thought was, “Ugh! I don’t want to spend more money on this! I already have these lamps, and I just want to get...

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My artwork for the dining room is framed, and while I made a very simple frame for this canvas, I have to admit that it was more challenging than I expected simply because of the sheer size of this painting. It’s 48 inches square, and I’m only 60 inches tall, so it was a bit...

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