Bright and Light Mudroom
When we first moved here, the mudroom was really dark. The floors were slate, there was a lot of wood and not a lot of light. So I knew I wanted to brighten is up.
Plus I ALWAYS wanted a …
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Teacher Pails – A.K.A. “Brown nosing buckets”
I’m redoing this post from TEN years ago!!! I can’t believe it’s been that long! But it was such a hit with soooooo many people that I wanted to share it again!
So this is what I’ve always done…These are …
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Painting Exterior Patio Stone Wall
The first year we lived in this house, we focused on remodeling the first floor. We did our kitchen, living room, dining room, and my office.
The second year, we focused on finishing the basement.
But …
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Painting Exterior Fireplace Stone
Recently, I decided to paint the stone behind our bar, fireplace, and around our pool.
With all the time at home lately, isn’t EVERYONE getting house projects done? Cuz’ what else is there to do! LOL #covid19
You can see …
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Painting Exterior Stone
Isn’t it amazing what a fresh coat of paint will do to brighten up an entire space.
I wasn’t happy with how dark this stone made this area of the deck so I decided to go lighter.
I called our …
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Painting Outdoor Slate
When we moved into this house, it was on slate overload (sorry to all of you slate lovers out there, I still love you!)
It was on the front steps (see our front steps now), the stairway was …
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Our Gold Front Door!
When we moved into the new house, the front doors had been faux finished by my Magic Brush Inc. faux painting company about 10 years ago. They were painted in a brown color and we literally used plastic bags to …
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How We Updated our Interior Faux Columns
When we moved into our house there were two round columns in the dining room that were super heavily textured and the irony is that my team is who textured those very heavily nine years ago. When we hired the people to …
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Perfect Schmer-fect: how perfectionism could be killing your creative small business!
To my creative entrepreneur friends:
Are you a self-proclaimed perfectionist? Or maybe you do not think you are a perfectionist, but maybe you are a creative entrepreneur and you joke that you are OCD. Or an overachiever. Or obsessively …
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My nearly white entryway table. A tutorial.
If you follow my Magic Brush Facebook page, you’ll know that I recently repainted my entryway table to look like the picture above. I know, I know. It’s almost white. And I thought I was allergic to white. Who knew??…
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