Category: Crafty ish
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Playroom makeover
Our basement is partially finished. The unfinished part is our home gym – which is where we started CSS Wellness years ago. the finished part served as kind of a 3rd living room. We already have the formal living room and the family room upstairs. And since there’s no bathroom in the basement, we didn’t […]
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Painting the whole dag on house basically
When we moved in this house it was really beige. I always knew we would paint, but I was working full time and LB was a baby and I was adjusting to a whole new state. Life was hectic. And we never got around to painting. So right before covid-19 close the gym we had […]
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Entry closet redesign
For some reason, builders of middle class homes in Lexington, KY always leave out a mud room. When you come into our house from the garage you walk basically straight into our kitchen. We have an entryway closet but it was always cluttered with junk. Brian and LB had an issue with leaving ALL their […]
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Kitchen Renovation – 2 year update
I still to this day get asked questions about our kitchen renovation from 2017. And I’m tired of sharing an old blog post so here’s some updates 😂 Since that post not much has changed in the kitchen other than decor and doing the grout renew pen. But i do get a lot of questions […]
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STILL nesting somehow – grout renew
Somehow I feel like I’m nesting again. So I tackled something that’s bothered me for awhile. For some reason, whoever built this house picked out tile with basically WHITE grout for the floor. When we moved in I was totally unfamiliar with care and didn’t know it wasn’t sealed. So obviously it got disgusting. I […]
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17/18 weeks – Nesting with Tarra
This past week in Nesting with Tarra I did a few things. First, I threw out all of our towels and got all new spa grade fluffy white towels. It was a need. Then we tackled the kids bathroom. This was another room that like our laundry room, was white. Like only primer from the […]
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16 weeks in “Nesting with Tarra”
My plans for laundry beautification were interrupted last week because it was fall break. No preschool so no alone time. To watch this story instead of read – watch these snippets from my Instagram story (follow me @Tarra.Yvette) Anywho – I decided to work on it over the weekend when Brian could entertain LB and […]
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This week in “Nesting with Tarra”
My nesting instinct is already strong af and I’m only 14 weeks. Like, since week 12 I have reorganized/cleaned out my closet, cleaned out all of LBs toy boxes, painted furniture, redecorated our bedroom, got all new scentsy waxes and candles… I’m just on it. I wanted to share the final bedroom transformation because I […]
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Furniture Rehab!
So I’m back at it with painting my futniture. You may remember from the last time I did some furniture rehab. Sooo here we go, we bought a new comfy chair for our bedroom and it is gray. We had to rearrange the entire room to fit this chair, and it ended up with our […]
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Slight werk – Furniture Edition
So basically, I been wanting a desk. Like forever and a day. But I haven’t been wanting to spend the money AND I have been afraid to try anything myself. I got over it this weekend. I quickly hit the peddlers mall and found… no desk (for the price I wanted). I did however find […]
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