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Feature Fri.

Feature Friday: Serenbe HGTV Green Home Part 2

May 18, 2012
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Back with Part 2 of the Serenbe HGTV Green Home that will be given away to one lucky person this year.  Wouldn’t that be nice? If you missed Part 1, you can catch it here. I know many of you said that this modern style is not your cup of tea, but I can appreciate [...]

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Feature Friday: HGTV Green Home Tour at Serenbe, Part 1

May 11, 2012
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As promised, I’m back with the inspiring tour of the HGTV Green Home in Serenbe, GA.  What a wonderful visit it was, I came away totally inspired and loved every minute of my visit to this inspiring countryside south of  downtown Atlanta. There was an official ribbon cutting to officially open the house for public [...]

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Feature Friday: A Renovation in Georgia

May 4, 2012
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One of my new friends in Georgia, Loree, just moved in her newly rebuilt and renovated fixer upper house in Woodstock a few weeks ago.  I went by and saw the house as she and her hubby, Steve, were working on it.  Just as I am doing, their house was a DIY project.  Steve is [...]

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Feature Friday: The Mustard Ceiling

April 27, 2012
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I’m back with another beautiful house to show you today.  Elizabeth, with The Mustard Ceiling, has a beautiful blog all about the renovation of their fixer-upper 1950’s brick ranch house located in NM.  She says while searching for online inspiration to update their new “old” house, she came upon colors of muted grays, soft whites [...]

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Feature Friday: AKA Design

April 20, 2012
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Here’s another new to me blog that I want to introduce you too, AKA Design.  Shannon and her hubby live in a 68 year old bungalow in Canada and they both are DIY enthusiasts, making over many rooms in their older home.  You’ll enjoy the tour,so sit back and relax!   A busy couple with 3 [...]

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Seaside Sister: Lynn’s Beach House

April 13, 2012
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I have a new friend in Marietta and her name is Lynn.  We met up at the beach last week in Florida.  We actually went to high school together, she was one year behind me, but didn’t know each other.  But, now all these years later, we have connected and I am enjoying getting to [...]

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Feature Friday: 11 Magnolia Lane

April 6, 2012
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Welcome three cute bloggers from 11 Magnolia Lane, Amy, Terry and Christy. They tag team on their blog and it is named for one of the houses that Christy lived in and fixed up, a 1920’s beauty in Fayetteville, N.C. that was beautifully redone.  She has since moved on from this house, but it’s worth [...]

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Feature Friday: It All Started With Paint

March 23, 2012
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With a blog title like that, you can imagine all the fun stuff you’ll find at Linda’s blog, It All Started With Paint.  Yep, the girl has discovered what many of us in blogland have been crying forth for years.  Paint changes things!  A multitude of flaws and blemishes can be covered with a fresh [...]

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Feature Friday: Cassie at Hi! Sugarplum

March 16, 2012
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Another fun designing mama, Cassie at Hi Sugarplum has done an amazing job updating their 1980’s builder’s beige home that they bought and have been meticulously upgrading.  The kitchen is one gorgeous space after Cassie got ahold of it and it gives me hope that when I get my fixer-upper house, which will most likely [...]

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Feature Friday: Sarah’s Yellow Cape Cod

March 9, 2012
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Sometimes when I am putting together these Feature Friday stories, it is hard not to be a little envious of the home pics I’m seeing all over blogland.  Today is one of those days.  Oh my gracious, Sarah at The Yellow Cape Cod is one talented mama.  She does this for a living too and [...]

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Feature Friday: Update on the Atlanta House Rebuilt

March 2, 2012
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I shared several weeks ago about the home of Lynn and her family, which had burned to the ground over a year ago.  They have made great progress on the house, so Lynn asked  me to come back if I wanted to take some updates.  It has come a long way in those weeks and [...]

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Feature Friday: Jessica at Four Generations Under One Roof

February 24, 2012
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Jessica is a fairly new blogger, blogging her projects since August at Four Generations One Roof and it has been a pleasure getting to know her these last few months.  She lives up in New England in a small town, but the unique thing about Jessica and her family is what she named her blog.  [...]

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Feature Friday: Eclectically Vintage

February 17, 2012
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Older houses are so much fun to explore and we have a fun one today.  Kelly with Eclectically Vintage lives  in a 100 year old house in NJ and you will love the features and transformations in this home.  Be prepared to ooh and ahh, you will love it all. Here’s the house when they [...]

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