Tag: projects
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Before and after: organizing our butler’s pantry
We are very blessed to have a large pantry off our living room and laundry room. If you’ve been reading here awhile, you know our current laundry room was once our kitchen and our current kitchen was once our dining room. Our pantry houses food, some coats and jackets, and cleaning supplies. It’s a multipurpose…
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Housework Wednesdays: our fantastically modular mudroom (that only cost me $40)
You may recall that my mudroom/laundry room combo used to look like this: That large cabinet was actually a TV cabinet, but we used it to store cleaning supplies. Because our brooms and mops were all stored in the pantry, it really wasn’t ideal. The cabinet was also very large and bulky, and took up…
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Wednesday Wonders: Cleaning Cabinet Organization
Recently, the dressers and closets at our house have gotten a bit out of hand. Case in point, my cleaning closet. It’s ironic to me that the closet containing my cleaning supplies was the most disorganized cabinet in my house, but I digress. That was really what my cleaning cabinet looked like- stuff everywhere and…
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Boone’s backyard oasis: yet another update
We completed yet another phase of our back yard refresher project. If you’re new here, we have been working on our boring, ugly and plain backyard. Since we are a family with young children and without unlimited cash flow, we do things a little at a time (like most people do). You may recall when…
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Scrap wood Challenge: a plan-less chicken coop or rabbit hutch
I never like to build anything without a plan- it’s so difficult and something always turns out wrong. BUT- is it really a scrap wood challenge if you use a plan? It’s still challenging, but building on the fly is a whole ‘nother level of challenging. It’s aggravating. I knew from looking at a neighbor’s…