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Creating a Cozy Home – French Country Cottage
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Creating a Cozy Home – French Country Cottage

Baby it’s cold outside might be true in February … but it can be warm and cozy inside when you set out to create a cozy home.

Creating a Cozy Home – French Country Cottage

Cozy can feel warm and welcoming and much like a big wrap up in a chunky blanket while sipping hot tea by the fire. It seems to go hand in hand being mentioned with the whole farmhouse aesthetic that has been on repeat in recent years. But creating a cozy feeling in your home doesn’t have to mean decorating in a farmhouse style – it’s a feeling and you can achieve that with

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7 Simple Spring Decor Ideas
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7 Simple Spring Decor Ideas

7 Simple Spring Decor Ideas

From potted plants to dried flowers to a pop of pretty color- today it’s all about simple inexpensive ways to decorate for spring.

Inexpensive Spring Decor

Throw Pillows

One of the easiest ways to update your living room or bedroom spaces without breaking the bank is to update your throw pillows. Rather than bringing in all new pillows- think simple and bring in pillow covers. A secret – the layer that covers right over the other covers you have to save on storing them also. No one will know but you!

velvet pillows stacked

Faux Arrangements

spring Flowers on building

While I absolutely love fresh flowers in

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Get the answers to all of your home remodeling questions at the 61st annual NARI Spring Home Improvement Show
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Get the answers to all of your home remodeling questions at the 61st annual NARI Spring Home Improvement Show

WEST ALLIS, Wis. (CBS 58) — The 61st annual NARI Spring Home Improvement Show takes place this weekend at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. Homeowners, or those who want to one day become a homeowner, will have the opportunity to meet businesses and contractors.

Since the pandemic, people have continued to spend more time at home. That means they’re splurging on entertainment spaces and other upgrades.

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Lost WWII love letters uncovered during NYC home renovation
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Lost WWII love letters uncovered during NYC home renovation

Their love stood the test of time — and home improvement.

After 80 years, a stack of World War II-era love letters pulled out of the walls during a Staten Island house renovation have been returned to the descendants of a prolific Navy man who wrote warmly — and frequently — to his wife.

Dottie Kearney, 51, uncovered the sheaf of correspondence between Brooklyn-born boatswain’s mate Claude Marsten Smythe and Wisconsin native Marie Borgal Smythe back in the mid-1990s, when Kearney and her husband bought the Eltingville fixer-upper — once home to the Smythes — and started tearing out the

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Home Improvements That Are Not Legal To Do Yourself
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Home Improvements That Are Not Legal To Do Yourself

Home Improvements That Are Not Legal To Do Yourself

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Spending so much time at home during quarantine exposed the pluses and minuses of our properties. The main living space might shine and sparkle, but the bathrooms look old and dreamy by comparison. You’ve probably also noticed deficiencies in some of its core systems, such as heating, plumbing and electrical.

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The desire to repair, update or bring more comfort to our spaces led to a push

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Spring Table Centerpiece with garden statue
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Spring Table Centerpiece with garden statue

A cozy spring table centerpiece idea using a garden statue and a beautiful wreath.

Spring Table Centerpiece Idea

You know, sometimes I know where I am going with a styling and other times- I wing it. I start gathering the things I know would like to use and then spend a little time thinking and staring before moving in a direction. A spring table was always the topic- but this was one of those times where the styling evolved.

Spring Table Centerpiece with garden statue

I knew I wanted to use this wreath for a centerpiece – but did not add the statue until I was

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Ideas for cozy winter bedroom decor
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Ideas for cozy winter bedroom decor

How would you describe your perfect winter bedroom decor? Is it full of warm colors or does it look more like layers of neutrals?

Ideas for cozy winter bedroom decor

Winter Bedroom Decor

There are so many beautiful ways to dress a winter bedroom to create an atmosphere that is perfect for you. When designing any space-from a room in a house to a gathering- I like to think about the feeling I want to create and build from there. For a bedroom decor and design- the words that come to mind: Restful. Rejuvenating. Warm and welcoming.

Layers of Lovely

Layers and layers of lovely –

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Our Home Before-exterior – French Country Cottage
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Our Home Before-exterior – French Country Cottage

I remember when I first drove up this old driveway and saw the house that would become our home… do you know what my first thought was?

Our Home Before-exterior – French Country Cottage

Back the truck up.

It was not for faint of heart. Honestly, I almost didn’t even get out of the car. But then I shook my head, turned the car off and opened the door. I have shared this story before and some of you may remember just how our home looked when we first bought it- and just how much work was in front of us to even make it livable.

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