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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.

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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No I don’t ‘need’ anything for summer, just No I don’t ‘need’ anything for summer, just let me rummage through my rat girl treasures in peace 😭

#thrifter #secondhandhome #thriftingislife
I’ve done probably a dozen tiling projects acros I’ve done probably a dozen tiling projects across four houses now and I can confidently say it’s my favourite DIY project. It doesn’t have to be intimidating either! So here’s a one minute explainer to break down the basics — if I were starting over I’d first try a backsplash or fireplace surround then move up to floors and wet spaces but either way you should try it 💪
Okay so I’ve done probably a dozen tiling projec Okay so I’ve done probably a dozen tiling projects across four houses now and it’s genuinely my favourite DIY project. 

Butttt I know It’s pretty intimidating to start so here’s a less-than-one-minute explainer on the basics of tiling. If you want to tile something for the first time, my vote is to start with a backsplash in your kitchen or laundry or a fireplace surround then level up to wet areas and floors but I promise it’s not has hard as it seems! 

#tiling #diyprojects #howtotile #diyhome
I have a lot of favourite things about op shopping I have a lot of favourite things about op shopping, but right up at the top is when you see something and it sparks an immediate idea, which is exactly what happened with this dress at @salvosstores. 

It was cute on its own, but with all the colours and the flowy fabric I knew it would make such a fun (and honestly pretty easy) bunting banner for my Mother’s Day brunch.

It’s so nice to know that thrifted finds can keep evolving and get a new life, and that I can also get a much more whimsical and unique brunch table. A win win!

#ad #SalvosStores #brunchathome #upcycling #sewsewsew
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