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Bidding Farewell To The Yellow House

Early in 2020, our family found out we would be relocating due to military orders. A month later the world as we knew it came crashing to a sudden halt! We sold our house before it ever officially hit the market the first week we were all banished to our homes. I still have lots of mixed emotions about how we sold the house and whether or not we could’ve gotten more $$ had we let it hit the MLS. The reality is we had no way of knowing what the end of March would’ve looked like! ...

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Multifunctional Home Office

*This post contains affiliate links. Who really uses a formal dining room these days? Not us! We are the antithesis of formal people. I mean, we did a very un-southern thing and didn’t even register for fine china, anything silver or crystal 13 years ago when we got married! Nonetheless, very southern women bought us various pieces of silver and crystal for wedding gifts. Our “formal dining room” is right by our front door so it needs to be somewhat pleasing to the eye, ...

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Big Girls…Share a Room

I’m trying to knock out a few decor projects here and there, except I can’t figure out what happened to all this free time I was supposed to have once the kids went to back to school?!? The girls’ room is so cheery and colorful! I’m usually so monochromatic and matchy-matchy in my decorating that using so many different colors in one room makes me a little batty. For these two, though, it works! Their whole room is still a work in progress. Their box springs need to ...

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Table for 10, Please

One piece of furniture I may have been more excited about than even this house is our new farmhouse table. The two tables we had in our rental weren’t going to cut it in the eat in area of this house. We don’t set up a formal dining area ever. We aren’t those kind of people. Formal dining at our house involves paper plates and paper towels! I don’t own a single piece of china so I don’t need a room to display it. We need to be able to practically live in every ...