Living Beautifully...One DIY Step At A Time
Adventures of a young couple making our first house a home...on a budget. We hope our endless projects, DIY's, upcycled pieces, and knack for deal finding will inspire you to do the same!
Powder Room Makeover
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- Published on Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Authors: Living Beautifully
First of all, we want to thank all of you for the lovely response we received to our last post. We truly, truly appreciate all of your support and can't wait to share so many of these projects we've been working on for the past while, with all of you. So thank you all, xo.Something else we've been up to (along with all...
An update... :)
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- Published on Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Authors: Living Beautifully
The cat's out of the bag. We'll at least for those of you who know us personally. For those of you who don't know us outside of blogland...this may come as a surprise (although a few of you noticed a clue to this in our master bedroom reveal post) :)Ian and I did not really plan on sharing this news on the blog for...
Dream Closet- Installation
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- Published on Monday, 06 May 2013
Authors: Living Beautifully
Our closet system was definitely an excellent investment and fairly easy to install. In my previous closet post, I mentioned that we had chosen the Martha Stewart Closet System for our master bedroom walk in closet. The price was reasonable, but the best part for us was the option of inputting your own measurements...Gilt
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- Published on Thursday, 02 May 2013
Authors: Living Beautifully
A while back, I heard about a site called gilt.com. I hadn't really checked it out until recently and wow am I loving it!For those of you who are unfamiliar with Gilt, its a members only website, that gives you insider access to designer labels, at up to 60% off retail prices. You need to register for free, and upon...
Dream Closet- Martha Stewart Closet System
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- Published on Monday, 22 April 2013
Authors: Living Beautifully
You read what we did to our small closet, but the small closet was peanuts compared to what we did to the walk-in closet. I'll be blogging about its progress in a few separate posts as there is a LOT to write about for this closet!In our bedroom, we have 2 closets- the walk-in and the small hanging closet. You can read...
Nightstand Makeover
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- Published on Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Authors: Living Beautifully
Part 2 of our dream closet makeover is coming up (as is more progress on the stairs), but I wanted to share this little bedroom makeover with you in the meantime.A while back I found these perfect nightstands (end tables) for our master bedroom. We have a fairly good sized bedroom and I knew we needed substantial...
Wallpapered Closet
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- Published on Tuesday, 09 April 2013
Authors: Living Beautifully
Some of you may have seen our sneak peek on our Facebook page of the Wallpapered closet that we finished a few weeks ago, and here's how it all went down.Ian and I are pretty much able to work together on almost every project in our house. We've done it all- building, painting, designing, etc., but wallpapering has not...
Chair Update
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- Published on Friday, 29 March 2013
Authors: Living Beautifully
Remember our vanity chair that we made over a whiiiiile back?It started out looking like this:
and we made it over to look like this:
Well, we loved how that chair turned out, but once we got our headboard fabric something had to change. After searching for months for our headboard...
Staircase Overhaul...Part 3
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- Published on Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Authors: Living Beautifully
After we had the railings and posts painted, the next step of the process was to get the treads put on. We had hired a stair builder to do this for us- they came and measured each of the current stairs in order to build the treads to size and then gave us a sample of the stain to make sure it matched our current...What we were up to...
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- Published on Monday, 25 March 2013
Authors: Living Beautifully
Just a sneak peek at what we were up to this weekend...we had some fun with wallpaper and finally finished up our second closet!
More to come on this project soon :)
Melissa and Ian...
