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Window treatment follow-up: I found pinch pleat panels!
Lots of you chimed in with some good suggestions on my mid-century window treatment dilemma post. Thank you! By the weekend, we had pretty much decided on stationary pinch pleat panels off to the sides...
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The subject of my radio silence
My apologies! As you may or may not have noticed, I have been mostly absent from my own blog, reading blogs, Instagram, Twitter (not that I’m on Twitter that much)… you name it, I haven’t been there....
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In which I confess my shoe love while working on a house project
True confessions, Karen style: I like shoes. A lot. Yesterday, I posted a photo on Instagram of my shoe collection. Which up until yesterday, had been (embarrassingly) mostly stacked on one another on...
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The Golly Ranch bathroom remodel: before & during renovation
It’s time to talk about a major project that sucked up a lot of our time and energy this spring and early summer! As in, even this post and the upcoming reveal post sucked up a lot of time! Needless to...
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The Golly Ranch bathroom remodel: the big reveal!
I’m back for what you’ve really been waiting for on the remodeling front, to see the final bathroom. If you missed it, here is yesterday’s before and during renovation post. Sorry I split them up (I...
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How does your garden grow?
First, thank you all so much for your wonderful (and sometimes hilarious!) comments on our bathroom renovation! It’s been great reading what everyone thinks about it. Now let’s talk gardening for a...
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So I accidentally bought a vintage sewing machine
A few weeks ago, we went over to our friends Ben and Elisa’s house. As it happened, their neighborhood was having a big yard sale earlier in the day that we couldn’t attend, but some people still were...
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A “before before” look at our kitchen
We love our little house, built in 1955. I’ve really neglected posting about the Golly Ranch (as we lovingly call it sometimes) on my blog. I do get asked questions about it and I’m totally guilty of...
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Kitchen painting, by way of attic insulation
It took 2 years and 8 months of living with a disgusting kitchen color to finally DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. You never saw proper photos of our kitchen before, because I was embarrassed over the paint...
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Tour of our retro kitschy kitchen!
Ready for our kitchen reveal?? Okay, “reveal” makes it sound like we did a big remodel. We didn’t. We really we just painted, hung up some new blinds and installed a new doorbell. But if you’ve seen my...
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Basement studio makeover: dirty little “before” photos!
Hello, everyone! Boy, have I been busy these last several weeks! We’ve been knee deep in giving our basement studio spaces a BIG makeover. And suddenly the weather went from marginal spring (great to...
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Basement studio makeover: planning and “build-out”
I thought I’d continue my basement studio makeover posts (catch up with the first one here) with the planning and the “build-out” phase where we actually assembled and moved everything around, both of...
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Creating my dream cutting table for sewing
Hello! I’m back from a relaxing vacation in the Southwest, where it was so relaxing, in fact, that we spent more time enjoying ourselves than bothering to take photos! But I may be able to cobble...
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So I accidentally bought a vintage sewing machine
A few weeks ago, we went over to our friends Ben and Elisa’s house. As it happened, their neighborhood was having a big yard sale earlier in the day that we couldn’t attend, but some people still were...
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A “before before” look at our kitchen
We love our little house, built in 1955. I’ve really neglected posting about the Golly Ranch (as we lovingly call it sometimes) on my blog. I do get asked questions about it and I’m totally guilty of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kitchen painting, by way of attic insulation
It took 2 years and 8 months of living with a disgusting kitchen color to finally DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. You never saw proper photos of our kitchen before, because I was embarrassed over the paint...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tour of our retro kitschy kitchen!
Ready for our kitchen reveal?? Okay, “reveal” makes it sound like we did a big remodel. We didn’t. We really we just painted, hung up some new blinds and installed a new doorbell. But if you’ve seen my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Basement studio makeover: dirty little “before” photos!
Hello, everyone! Boy, have I been busy these last several weeks! We’ve been knee deep in giving our basement studio spaces a BIG makeover. And suddenly the weather went from marginal spring (great to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Basement studio makeover: planning and “build-out”
I thought I’d continue my basement studio makeover posts (catch up with the first one here) with the planning and the “build-out” phase where we actually assembled and moved everything around, both of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Creating my dream cutting table for sewing
Hello! I’m back from a relaxing vacation in the Southwest, where it was so relaxing, in fact, that we spent more time enjoying ourselves than bothering to take photos! But I may be able to cobble...
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