Kitchen

Spring Kitchen Decorating Ideas | In My Own Style

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 Simple Spring kitchen decorating ideas that you can add to a kitchen that are both pretty and budget friendly.

Yesterday, I shared how I decorated my living room mantel for spring and how I shopped my house to find decorative items to use. Today I am sharing how I added a few old and new decorative items to my kitchen to get it ready for spring. My kitchen is white and in past years I added spring color by making shelf backdrops for open shelves. This year I added spring colors in a different way.

Spring decorations for the kitchen using blue, white, pink and green.Spring Kitchen Decorating Ideas

You know I like to decorate with white so I can accent it with pops of color.  For spring this is easy to do since spring is blooming with so many vibrant and happy colors. I chose to use my favorite colors… blue, pink, and green in the kitchen.

Kitchen counter decorating ideas for Spring

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Room Ideas

Small Space Home Office Essentials 2020

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Building a home office is no easy task, and that’s especially true if you’re working in a small space. When you don’t have a spare room, you have to get creative with your set-up. That means enhancing what you’ve already got and investing in smart, compact products you can put away at the end of the day. We rounded up a few items that help you do just that. From a super-cozy seat cushion that makes your kitchen chair comfortable, to a folding desk you can stash in the closet when the clock strikes 5 p.m., here are nine essentials for a small (impromptu) home office. 

Ebern Designs Naved Floating Desk

Take up minimal space with this wall-mounted mini table. It saves you floor space, and when you’re not using it, you

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Garden

How To Start A Productive Garden TODAY!

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What to plant if you want food quickly

Those leafy vegetables and herbs Paul West mentioned above? Not only can they be grown in pots to suit a small space, but if you put them in the ground right now, they’ll be ready to begin harvesting in four to six weeks! ‘When you do start harvesting, be sure to harvest the outermost leaves first, and never take more than one-third of the plant mass,’ he says. 

Of course, you don’t need to be a literal expert to grow your own produce at home, as shown by TDF’s very own gardening enthusiast (aka our partnerships manager) Alice Ziebell! Alice spends every weekend tending to her crop of plants alongside her landscape architect husband, Marlon Ziebell. (Once your vegetable garden is underway, be sure to try out some of this pair’s delightful recipes!)

Alice says right now is the perfect time

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Kitchen

Why I Painted a Floor to Ceiling Chalkboard Wall in My Kitchen

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How to Create a Floor to Ceiling Chalkboard on a Wall

In my early days of blogging I wrote a post entitled, How to Draw Like an Artist on a Chalkboard. It is where I shared all the chalkboard drawing tips I learned over the years, like dipping the chalk in water before using. In my previous house I had a large chalkboard in the kitchen and later moved it to the dining room where I enjoyed changing what was on it for the season, like drawing a turkey on the chalkboard for Thanksgiving and a 3-D Bunny on the board for Easter.

After we moved to the lake house and I painted the kitchen cabinets, I hung a small chalkboard on a wall to continue drawing on it for the seasons, when entertaining and for celebrations. It was fine, but small for the ideas I wanted to

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Room Ideas

20 Home Decor Small Business to Shop 2020

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To say there’s a good amount of uncertainty in the world right now would be a vast understatement, but for small businesses this new reality is especially difficult. With stores closed across the country and most people either working from home or left to wait it out, small businesses are struggling to stay afloat. That’s why it’s important to shop small and local right now, if you have the means to. We rounded up 20 of our favorite small businesses to shop from right now—and let us know your picks in the comments below.

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Kitchen

Adding a Kitchen Island to My Small Kitchen

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When you have a small kitchen like I do, there are not a lot of options for an affordable and functional kitchen island. I have looked into making one to hacking IKEA shelves into a narrow island, but finally found the perfect option to fit my decorating style.

I have “a thing” about a few things…  like pom-poms and polka dots, but I also have “a thing” for furniture on wheels. I made a craft cart on wheels when I first started blogging and the rolling desk that I made for a BHG furniture hack contest. I even added wheels to a bifold door in my previous house.

Kitchen island in my previous house

For the past year I have been seriously searching for a small island to buy or make for my small kitchen. In my previous home, we had a nice sized kitchen island.

 

I took for

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