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Updating the Kitchen {and Beyond}

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I am so excited to partner with Empire Today Stores to do some updates to our home. While this post is sponsored, all thoughts and opinions are my own.

I love spending time in my kitchen. After all, I must because I named my blog after it. Lol. While I love spending time in my home, and especially my kitchen, there are definitely a few things I would change. A major update that is needed here is flooring! The guy who built our house was a single guy who {no offense to single guys} just didn’t have much design talent. So, we are working on updating the kitchen and beyond over the course of the next year.

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3 Ways to Add Color to Your Home

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I am always excited to share my thoughts and experiences of some of my favorite products with my readers. While this post was compensated, as always, all thoughts and opinions are my own.

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My house is pretty neutral when it comes to paint, furniture and even a lot of the artwork. So, I am always looking for ways to add color to my home. Of course, I want any changes I make to be quick and easy and not cost a ton of money because I will probably want to change it up in a few months. So, I thought I would share 3 ways you can easily add color to your home that are inexpensive and easy.

Three Easy Ways to Add Color to Your Home #HintofColor #SparkleTowels

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You Deserve a Miele

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After living with my vacuum for a few months, I can truly say that I am in love with it.  Yeah, sounds crazy to be in love with a vacuum right?  I’m not alone though…Maya says “Your new vacuum is definitely the best I’ve ever used! Wow!”  Pretty incredible excitement over a machine used to clean your home.  I promise you that I am totally not a cleaning nut…I actually hate cleaning with a capital H!
I would say with confidence that everyone deserves a Miele though.  BUT, let’s talk about YOU and why you deserve a Miele.Miele Line…

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First Impressions Last Forever #PureAirBlog

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Remember my trip to learn all about Miele in New York? Well, prior to going, I had never even heard of Miele. That trip was my first impression of the brand and my first introduction to their products. Well, you know the saying “first impressions last forever?” Miele definitely goes above and beyond to make sure that first impression is completely positive.  To describe the impression I got in one word: quality.  The people were amazing and every product we were introduced to was nothing short of spectacular in the way it was engineered.

I’ve been home from that trip and living with my new Miele vacuum for just over a month now.  Has my impression changed at all from that first one?  Not one bit.
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Fall Felt Leaf Wreath

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September is always a funny month here.  One day {yesterday} it still feels like summer with temperatures above 90 degrees.  Then, the next {today} the temperature will top out in the 70s.  It is really hard to feel like decorating for one season or another because you are constantly being thrown between two seasons.  I didn’t let the hot weather stop me though from starting on my fall decorating.  I used the heat as a reason to stay inside and test out my new hot glue gun instead creating my fall felt leaf wreath.Fall felt leaf wreath with label…

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Guest Room Upgrades: Candy for Dad

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One of our recent projects has been making our extra bedrooms into a true guest rooms: places where guests can rest comfortably and really feel at home when visiting.  Along with changing the bedding, making headboards and adding in art and extra furniture, I wanted to make it easy for guests to find things they might be looking for {i.e. items they might have forgotten}.

It started with a little basket of items that guest might have forgotten similar to the way hotels put out small toiletries.

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Customize Your Home by Building New

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I’ve owned two homes in my life: the townhouse I bought with my husband back in 2005 and my current single family home.  They were both extremely different experiences…the townhouse was built from scratch while the single family home was a used home when we purchased it.

Now, I love my current house!  It gives us plenty of space and we are really happy with the layout.  Plus, we can’t beat the neighborhood and the neighbors that come along with it!

BUT, there are some things that we would really like to change so I think back to my days of  being able to design pieces of the house {like flooring, counter tops and cabinets}  versus trying to find ways to change them.  A newly built home allows you to build in all of your wants from the start versus making them a to-do list from the time you move in.

Let’s take my kitchen for example.  When I built my townhouse, I got to pick the flooring, the cabinet colors and the counter tops.  Of course, the person who built my current house got to do all that but their taste and mine just don’t match.
So, from that picture, you can tell I want to change the cabinets because they just don’t work well with the flooring and the granite.  I hope to eventually change the flooring too but that spans way beyond the kitchen!

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Big Girl Rooms: Two Mood Boards

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Have you ever tried to get a 5 {almost 6} year old to make design decisions?  Take it from me…you’d have an easier time ripping a princess dress from her hands. 

Um, how did she grow up so fast?

For H’s sixth birthday, we decided we would completely redecorate her room as part of her birthday present.  When we moved in, it was pretty hastily thrown together since
a) I was pregnant and also trying to do a nursery
b) she wasn’t really at an age where a big transition made sense.

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