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Discover our favorite moments beyond DIY—family life, travel tips, home styling, and everyday hacks. Whether you’re looking for inspiration to simplify daily routines or make the most of family time, our lifestyle posts have you covered.

inexpensive rugs
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Where to Find Inexpensive Rugs

Discover the best places to find inexpensive rugs for every room in your home. Buy affordable and stylish rug options without sacrificing quality.

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budget bathroom remodel
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Our Budget Bathroom Remodel

Affordable renovation ideas and tips with our budget bathroom remodel guide. Learn how to transform your bathroom without breaking the bank.

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How Being Homeless From a Hurricane Wasn’t the Most Annoying Part of Our Moving Experience
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How Being Homeless From a Hurricane Wasn’t the Most Annoying Part of Our Moving Experience

Explore our challenging move experience, including homelessness from a hurricane. Gain insights into navigating unexpected hurdles during relocation.”

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functional kitchen
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Designing a Small but Functional Kitchen: Tips and Ideas

Learn how to design a small but functional kitchen. Maximize your space and efficiency while maintaining style and practicality.

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preparing your house to sell
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Preparing Your House to Sell: Essential Checklist for Sellers

Expert guide on preparing your house to sell. Includes room-by-room checklist, budget tips and quick-prep strategies for last-minute showings.

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We’re Moving: Why We’re Selling Our First Home During the Pandemic
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We’re Moving: Why We’re Selling Our First Home During the Pandemic

Follow our journey of selling our first home during the pandemic. Learn how the 2020 housing market, growing family needs, and location preferences influenced our decision to move. Includes tips for quick home preparation and market timing.

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7 Tips for Creating a Cohesive Home Design That Reflects Your Style
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7 Tips for Creating a Cohesive Home Design That Reflects Your Style

Transform your mismatched house into a cohesive home design with these 7 expert interior design tips. Learn about color palettes, hardware matching, and trim choices that create flow throughout your space. Perfect for DIY home renovators!

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Celebrating Our First Year of Homeownership: A DIY Journey
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Celebrating Our First Year of Homeownership: A DIY Journey

Follow our complete room-by-room DIY renovation journey, from a dated starter home to a personalized dream house. Includes budget tips, lessons learned, and before/after reveals.

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A DIY fireplace mantel with stained wood and a black brick paint.
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How to Build a DIY Fireplace Mantel: A Step-by-Step Guide with Bold Paint Makeover

This DIY fireplace mantel gave a breath of freshness to our old, boring, outdated fireplace without a ton of time or money.

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painted our brick house white paint color
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How to Get Started in DIY Without Any Experience

Learn how to tackle DIY projects with confidence, even if you’re a complete beginner. We’ll help you get started on transforming your home.

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A thrifty Aussie mum with the audacity to DIY anything. Old house, new projects, & life back home after a decade abroad 🛠️
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I knew live edge would shelves would be perfectttt I knew live edge would shelves would be perfectttt for the treehouse vision in our 4-year-old’s room but I had a little look online and they were about $300 each which I definitely could not justify. So I went to my trusty old Facebook Marketplace and found there was a warehouse across town selling slab offcuts and I got enough for four shelves for $100! 
Which means I basically ✨made✨ $1100. 

#liveedgeshelves #liveedge #diyprojects #kidsinterior #kidsroom
To be fair I don’t think anyone has ever or will e To be fair I don’t think anyone has ever or will ever describe me as chic in this lifetime but still 💅 what are you adding to this list?
I will die on the hill that paint is the absolute I will die on the hill that paint is the absolute best way to transform a room (especially if you’re newer to projects and don’t have a full renovation budget), so take this as your sign to choose a colour and go for it! #ad

The colour I used in here (Benjamin Moore Smoke) isn’t too saturated or dark or baby blue, and it was the perfect anchor for this whole room vision. Leaving everything white wouldn’t have had these cosy vibes at all!

After all the amazing responses to our kitchen-turned-kids room reveal last week, @benjaminmooreaustralia is giving you all a special discount to start your own project! Use code Emma10 for 10% off + free freight on all AU website orders between Aug 3-17.

Comment PAINT and I’ll send you the link to their website directly to check out all their (3,500+!) colours. 

#benjaminmooresmoke #benjaminmoore #bluebedroom
Designing this kitchen-turned-kids room came at a Designing this kitchen-turned-kids room came at a time when 90s classics (The Sandlot, Parent Trap, Matilda, etc) are going platinum in our household so I was going for a mashup of our 4-year-old’s favourite things. 
He at one point said he wanted ‘rainbow’ so I tried to fit as many colours as possible and I’m also to be honest a bit emotional that his little Dino traveled stuffed in a suitcase on a cargo ship halfway across the world to get back to his spot in the middle of the bed 😭
Anyway I’m so proud of this room and also jealous my kids are cooler than me.
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