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Our Nantucket Nursery – One Room Challenge Reveal

Baby Girl, we are ready for you! My first #OneRoomChallenge is complete and I am so in love with our Nantucket inspired nursery! We started the Better Home and Gardens One Room Challenge 8 weeks ago, and now we’re just 4 weeks (or less!) away from welcoming our sweet girl. There were several road bumps and changes along the way due to Covid-19 delays. Some projects just didn’t happen because they weren’t essential. I’ll probably add a few more tweaks […]

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A Nantucket Nursery – Our OneRoomChallenge – Week 1

We’re making room for baby! I could go on and on about how excited I am to design a Nantucket inspired nursery for our baby girl… But, I’ll share all of the details of finding joy in pregnancy after loss and immense fear for another post. THIS space is to share all of the details we have planned for creating a beautiful coastal nursery that will grow with our girl for years to come. Why Nantucket? It’s our second favorite […]

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Sanding and Refinishing an Old Painted Dresser – ORC Week 6

There are a lot of titles I could give this week’s blog post… How to Revive a Dresser. How to Remove Paint from a Dresser. Revamp a Dresser for $50. Refinishing Furniture while Pregnant: A Memoir. Furniture that Tells a Story. Or most appropriately… The Dresser that Didn’t Go as Planned. As I started planning our Nantucket Nursery for the Better Homes and Gardens One Room Challenge, I fell in LOVE with this Ikea hack by House on Longwood Lane. […]

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ORC Week 4: Mommy and Me Art Projects

Well here we are at Week 4 of our Nantucket Nursery One Room Challenge… and my project list still didn’t go quite as planned. A quick update: We have decided to nix the Ikea dresser hack since stores are still closed due to Covid-19 and shipping is wayyyy too much $$$. Instead, I started refinishing the existing dresser in there. Similar, but a little different! We’ve had a bunch of rain here in Charleston, so I haven’t been able to […]

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ORC Week 3 – Nursery Design Essentials

We’re in Week 3 of the Better Homes and Gardens One Room Challenge! The obvious next step in our room design is loading in the furniture, but with the current state of the world I CANNOT GET OUR DRESSER YET! And it’s driving me crazy! I’m so excited to get started on it, but IKEA stores are closed and the shipping is double the price of the dresser! So it will wait… Til then, I thought I’d share some important […]

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ORC Week 7: Nursery Bedding and Pillows and Curtains Oh My!

Welcome to week six of our OneRoomChallenge! We’re on the homestretch… so it’s textile week! It’s a small room, so there aren’t a lot of pockets to add fabric. But these layers of softness are so important for adding texture and color! I basically have three area to address: bedding, pillows and curtains. And goodness am I excited!! Bedding If you have kids, you know the reality: sheets get gross! Middle of the night blowouts are a real thing. And […]

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ORC Week 2: Board and Batten How-to’s & Tips plus Colors & Fan Selection

The scene has been set for the makings of our Nantucket Nursery for the Spring 2020 OneRoomChallenge! My husband and father-in-law installed board and batten around the room, spruced up all the paint and installed a ceiling fan. The room is just beautiful and I’m so excited to move to the next steps of the process! But first, here is a quick look at our board and batten installation. Since I wasn’t the lead on this project, I don’t have […]

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