Design Build Love

Design Build Love chronicles the homeowning adventures of Ashley, a lifestyle consultant and law student, and Eric, an attorney.  As newlywed professionals moonlighting as designers/home-improvement-DIYers, they love sharing their adventures in DIY and hope to inspire others to take on a DIY lifestyle! On any given day, the blog covers DIY projects for both inside and outside of the home. Aside from DIY, the couple enjoys music, food, family, friends, and some good ol’ physical activity, including road cycling, running, hiking, fishing, swimming, and more! Oh yeah... and they were lucky enough to get on DIY Network’s House Crashers!  These DIYers are busy, frugal, and dream big! Come join for some budget-friendly DIY and a healthy dose of newlywed craziness!

Basics of Affordable DIY Shelving

Authors: Design Build Love

In planning our laundry room overhaul, I knew that the only way to accomplish my low-budget makeover was DIYing my own shelving.  Custom shelving can cost upwards of hundreds of dollars, and even your basic pre-fabbed, boring shelves can be about $20+/- a piece!  With three shelves, that would have been a minimum of $60 r...

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How to DIY a Herringbone Color-Blocked Wall Pattern

Authors: Design Build Love

My favorite part of my recent laundry room overhaul just might be the fun, herringbone-patterned, color-blocked wall… it was my jumping off point for this entire makeover!  I knew that I wanted some kind of fun accent wall and I really didn’t want to just do a plain-colored wall, but I also didn’t want...

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Email Issues Should Be Resolved

Authors: Design Build Love

This is the final test (hopefully)!  All email subscribers should now receive blog posts as soon as they’re posted as long as your subscriptions have been confirmed.

Thanks again for the patience!!!

Ashley

TUTORIAL FOR THE CUSTOM HERRINGBONE COLOR-BLOCKED WALL TREATMENT COMING TOMORROW!!!

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Email Test #2 for Subscriptions

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Still trying to work out subscription emailing details…

Thanks for the patience.
Ashley...

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Testing 1…2…3…

Authors: Design Build Love

Email notifications for new posts have not been working for the last couple of days, so this is just a test to see if I’ve corrected the problem.

Thanks for your patience,

Ashley...

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Laundry Room DIY Decor Roundup

Authors: Design Build Love

Since our Laundry Room makeover was such a big project, I thought it would be helpful to write a post just about the room decor!  The decor was primarily DIY’d with miscellaneous materials I had on hand. In the end, I “put together”: 1 pocket change jar 2 framed wall hangings 1 repainted...

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How to Make Awesome Labels Without a Silhouette

Authors: Design Build Love

I’ve been stung by the organization and labeling bee and I just can’t get enough!  While browsing for inspiration, I’ve come across some amazing labels and almost every time, they’ve been created with a handy little machine called a Silhouette!  Most of you probably know what one of these is, but i...

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Pinterest Partayy!!!: Entire Room Makeover

Authors: Design Build Love

Well, today’s the day! Just a short two weeks from when Jami at What the Graham called a few of us blogging ladies together, it’s time to reveal your projects! In the announcement, we said that we weren’t sure what project we’d be doing, but after a bit of thought, Eric and I decided that this was...

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Send Us a Card, We’ll Cut It Up! (what to do with holiday cards)

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Every year we receive holiday cards from our wonderful family and friends.  We LOVE getting pictures of everyone and always enjoy hearing about what people have been up to.  The only problem… we always feel terrible throwing your lovely faces in the trash after the holiday season ends… and I’m certainly n...

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Toes in the water, Ass in the sand… Honeymoon-Style

Authors: Design Build Love

Yup! I cussed in this blog title, but you’ll just have to get over it because I have an excuse! Our entire honeymoon was hysterically euphoric and we just kept quoting this song over and over!  So, there! If you follow our blog, you know that Eric and I got married about two and half years ago, but never had the...

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