The other day I was stalking our house in Google maps because that’s my idea of a good time on a Friday night. I know…lame…we lead really exciting lives. Anyway…we’ve lived in our current abode for nearly three years and for the almost three years we’ve been here, we haven’t been Google mapped. Our house on Google maps is still from when the old owners lived here with the old [...]
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When I first heard of BlogLovin‘ all I could think of was the Mariah Carey song Dreamlover…except replace “Dreamlover” with “BlogLovin’” in the chorus. You know, so it kind of goes like this: “BlogLovin’ come rescue me, take me up, take me down, take me anywhere you want to baby now, I need you so desperately, won’t you please, come around, cuz I wanna share forever with you baby!” Here’s [...]
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It took us a couple of weeks, but we recently took our bathroom from this: To this: Boom! And might I remind you that it used to look like this: Double boom! Any excuse to whip out that picture. Man…our bathroom was a whole lotta ugly! And cramped. Opening it up and removing all the strange nooks made a world of difference. And now with a lighter, more airy hue [...]
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So we’ve shown you the progress we made with the bathroom vanity(a Craigslist buffet find, that we modified, and then painted Gray Owl by Benjamin Moore) but we haven’t yet shown you the bathroom progress. Game day bucket go boom: We’ve been busy bees. Can you tell?! We not only removed the “temporary”, been there for three years, painted plywood vanity this past weekend, but we also patched the walls, [...]
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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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Ding dong the witch is dead vanity is done. And all it took was two solid weekends of priming and painting. I wish I was kidding. And of course, in true Angie fashion, I anticipated total painting time of about four hours max…wrong! More like four hours max just to prime the body of the thing! Isn’t that always the case? Please tell me I’m not the only one who way [...]
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This weekend was an absolute whirlwind of house project goodness. Sawdust was blowing, paint was flying, there’s sheet rock dust in my hair, and we made a super mess of our house. Big mess typically equals major house project progress. So this week we’ll be spending some time cleaning up our messes and blogging about all the progress. And speaking of progress, I officially declare this the week of the [...]
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Tonight’s original post was to dish all about “how to hack a buffet to turn it into a bathroom vanity”. But after yesterday’s March monthly roundup, and realizing how construction heavy it was (read…one serious lack of light, fun, and decorator-ie projects) I scraped the post-plan and am bringing you a little mirror story…a pretty in pink mirror story. Although I told Colby it was “coral” not “pink” so he [...]
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As much as we love powering through a project and making progress, we love taking a little breather here and there to sit back and enjoy the progress we’ve made. It gets crazy ’round these parts sometimes when paint is flying and mud is slinging and the dog is in the middle of it just getting mud and paint all over him. So monthly roundup days are a nice little [...]
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Prepare for Instagram picture overload. March was a bit…well…heavy in the Instagram department. I blame this on two happenings, neither being that I’m Insta-obsessed. One…we traveled to Puerto Rico where photogenic scenes abound. And two…I upgraded my iPhone from the 3 to the 4S and consequentially TOTALLY upgraded the camera. I couldn’t help it…I was snapping pictures of everything because it just looked too gosh darn good. Goose in a [...]
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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.
Rustic Wood Cookbook Stand For The Kitchen, Cutting Board Style, Roostic Etsy Shop, $35
Rustic Wood iPad Stand For The Kitchen, Cutting Board Style, Roostic Etsy Shop, $35
Use wood glue and a stencil to block the stain. Beautiful.
