Let’s just file this post under random purchases for $100 Alex. Oh…but they changed Jeopardy and there is no longer a $100 category…I rephrase…let’s file this post under random purchases for $200 Alex. Not that I spent $200…more like $66.48. Anyway, after returning home from our Puerto Rico adventure, we’re talking immediately after returning home from Puerto Rico, I settled into the couch for a long winter’s nap catching up [...]
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2 Comments Today we’re unleashing upon you all our secrets. Well…no…not ALL our secrets, otherwise what kind of incentive do you have to keep reading?! Today, I’m revealing to you our “secrets of a stainer”. Did anybody get the Emily Henderson Secrets of a Stylist spoof in there? I’m sure a few of you die hard Design Star fans out there caught on. Anyway, Colby and I were staining and polying monsters [...]
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4 Comments We finally did it…we bit the bullet and invested in a real light fixture in our master bedroom. Not gonna lie…we haven’t had an overhead light fixture in this room since we moved in nearly three years ago thanks to a little Colby breaking it while trying to get into the attic incident. Anyway…meet our new light fixture…Glinda…the gilded flush mount…aka the good light fixture of the North. Glinda didn’t [...]
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The noodling around in the bedroom that we started yesterday continues. This time, we’re putting a mirror on it: Since we emptied out the entryway and started switching it up to make it more functional for us, we were left with a mirror and no place to hang it. Side note: I swear we’re still working on the entryway…the painting the board and batten is a painfully slow project and [...]
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Not to be confused with “canoodling around the bedroom”. That’s an entirely different blog post for an entirely different blog. We’re talking this evening about noodling around the bedroom. As in making small changes, or tweakages, here and there until a room becomes more cohesive and more us. Case in point…the master bedroom before the noodling began. And now post noodling around with some new curtain rods and curtain sheers [...]
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You knew I couldn’t leave it alone…the wedding art gallery that was in the works in our master bedroom. So we recently noodled away at it and took it from this: To this: Ahhhhh…I’m finally at peace with the gallery. It’s perfect…ridiculously, awesomely, perfect. The project was so un-Angie like, at least in terms of how I tackled it. I’m normally a very calculated, planned out, hang-up-paper-templates-and-play-around-with-art-layout type of person. [...]
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1 Comment No I haven’t confused my holidays and no I’m not going all patriotic on you. I’m just revealing our little wedding art gallery that we just hung up in our master bedroom, complete with a little “C” art from Etsy. For those of you who have been around the roost and then some, you’ll recognize the first dance art and the wedding invitation shadow box. But if you’re new to [...]
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So this blog post is about one part check out the rugs I picked up at Ikea last weekend for only $9.99 each… And about eight parts oh my gosh check out our Goose in sheep’s clothing. Poor Goose wasn’t entirely happy about this. But dang that dog will do ANYTHING for a cookie. His ears just perked up as he heard me type “cookie”. This is his “Blue Steel” [...]
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2 Comments As you may or may not have noticed thanks to all those Instagram pics, Colby and I spent a little time in Boston last weekend. Our primary purpose of the trip was to go down to Fenway and see a Red Sux…I mean…Red Sox game (they lost in extra innings….booooo) and then to the Sam Adams Octoberfest (it was beer-tastic). But it just so happened that the hotel we stayed [...]
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2 Comments Now that I’ve let your eyes rest for a few days from the neon-ness of my good ol’ nightstand (read more about it back here) that’s been with me since high school, you’re ready for the big reveal. Now you can REALLY appreciate the nightstand’s new “outfit”. Ta-da: Shiver me timbers…thar she blows! And it’s hard to believe that she looked like this not too long ago. I can’t say [...]
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Welcome to Angie's Roost (and Colby's Hen House) where you'll find daily posts about our misadventures in DIY home improvement. We bought a 100+ year old home that desperately needed some love and blogged about our entire adventure.
Jars of citrus fruit on the counter
Dining room filled with vintage finds
I know this is an outdoor space, but how great is that rustic wood coffee table for a living room?!
