What a difference a week has made in the progress at the flip! Last week I finished the first coat of paint on the kitchen after cleaning the disgusting walls for hours. Then this past week AJ brought all the cabinets up to the flip to start putting them where they belong in the kitchen and I picked out the…
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We have a summer project. The kind of summer project that requires loads of work… We purchased this flip off-market when another agent in our real estate office contacted us and asked if we’d want to buy this house before he officially listed it. The price couldn’t have been better and we knew that even if we just hooked it…
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I always feel like I’m learning as I go with Drew, well, actually, all my kids, but mostly with him because he’s the oldest. There are so many times that AJ and I find ourselves frustrated with him and it’s funny, more often than not it’s about things that one of us, or both, have so obviously passed on to…
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After numerous times of AJ hitting his head on the office chandelier we decided to replace it with this sparkly light. I miss the length and size of the chandelier, the room feels so big without it, but for practicality sake we had to have something shorter because of the placement of the desk. The light is $119 and it definitely…
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Sources: Fireplace: Home Depot almost a decade ago (I like this one even better than ours) | Table: Second Hand (similar here and here) | Chairs: CTC Event Furniture | Blankets: Better Homes and Gardens at Walmart | Cake Stand: Better Homes and Gardens at Walmart | Glass Cake Dome: Pottery Barn  I have been trying to get our kitchen area to…
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