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<article class="post-4118 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-home-improvement tag-home-improvement entry gs-1 gs-odd gs-even gs-featured-content-entry" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="kitchen-remodel-budget/" title="Kitchen Remodel on a Budget">Kitchen Remodel on a Budget</a></h2><a href="kitchen-remodel-budget/" title="Kitchen Remodel on a Budget" class="alignright"><img width="300" height="200" src="wp-content/uploads/2018/03/DSC_0076-min-300x200.jpg" class="entry-image attachment-post gsfc-alignright" alt="Kitchen Remodel" itemprop="image" srcset="wp-content/uploads/2018/03/DSC_0076-min-300x200.jpg 300w, wp-content/uploads/2018/03/DSC_0076-min-768x512.jpg 768w, wp-content/uploads/2018/03/DSC_0076-min-1024x683.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"/></a><p>It's finally happening. I am so excited to kiss the brown, boring kitchen good-bye and say hello to light and bright. I have a lot to do and I am so excited. So begins this kitchen remodel on a budget...
Here is my kitchen now:
Let's talk pros and cons:
Pros: layout, lots of cabinets, solid counter-tops, and my live edge table.
Cons: Low lighting, loud/broken appliances, broken faucet, backsplash is the same as the floor tile (who does that?). And perhaps the most painful of all it's boring and brown, brown, brown.
So here's the plan:
 	Install a new range hood, I am building a &#x02026; <a href="kitchen-remodel-budget/" class="more-link">Keep Reading!</a></p></article><article class="post-4088 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-home-improvement entry gs-2 gs-even gs-featured-content-entry" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="laundry-room-remodel-progress/" title="Laundry Room Remodel Progress">Laundry Room Remodel Progress</a></h2><a href="laundry-room-remodel-progress/" title="Laundry Room Remodel Progress" class="alignright"><img width="300" height="200" src="wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DSC_0051-min-300x200.jpg" class="entry-image attachment-post gsfc-alignright" alt="Penny Tile Laundry Room Remodel" itemprop="image" srcset="wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DSC_0051-min-300x200.jpg 300w, wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DSC_0051-min-768x512.jpg 768w, wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DSC_0051-min-1024x683.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"/></a><p>I'm almost done with the laundry room remodel. Remember this laundry room?
Just a lot of bla going on in there. A lot has happened since I first started the process.
Laundry room remodel beginnings. I took down the shelf:
Installed upper cabinets, built floating shelves, & added penny tile:
Painted the existing brown cabinet white (before pic):
Started to create a make shift mud room area:
And here's what it looks like currently:
I only have a few things left to do and I'll be all done! I'll post on all the steps and the finished room next week!
Happy weekend &#x02026; <a href="laundry-room-remodel-progress/" class="more-link">Keep Reading!</a></p></article><article class="post-4062 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-home-improvement tag-design tag-woodworking entry gs-3 gs-odd gs-even gs-featured-content-entry" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="how-to-decorate-a-bookshelf/" title="How To Decorate a Bookshelf">How To Decorate a Bookshelf</a></h2><a href="how-to-decorate-a-bookshelf/" title="How To Decorate a Bookshelf" class="alignright"><img width="300" height="169" src="wp-content/uploads/2018/02/built-in-after-landscape-300x169.jpg" class="entry-image attachment-post gsfc-alignright" alt="How to decorate a bookshelf" itemprop="image" srcset="wp-content/uploads/2018/02/built-in-after-landscape-300x169.jpg 300w, wp-content/uploads/2018/02/built-in-after-landscape.jpg 764w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"/></a><p>Okay people, I just haven't said enough about my beloved bookshelf. This project took me like 74 years but turned out amazing. Building was a long process so by the time I began putting books on the shelves I just just ready for it to be over! It kinda looked like Einstein's bookshelves, jam-packed and disorganized. Which isn't that bad considering it meant I actual had something in common with him. After staring at the blessed shelves for far too long my friend Amy (who was in this video) came to my rescue and saved me from utter design destruction and pointing out a lot of mistakes I was &#x02026; <a href="how-to-decorate-a-bookshelf/" class="more-link">Keep Reading!</a></p></article></div></section>
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