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I love using gravel. It is so easy to do and maintain. We just made a fire pit area out of gravel and used a brick like stone for the edging. We love how it turned out and are planning on lining our garden area with the same brick, and doing a path and patio in the back with the gravel and brick.

Thistly- My heart and thoughts go out to you and I in no way want to disagree with someone living a tragedy, but I do want to say that I think a benefit and blessing to being prepared with emergency kits and food etc is the priceless ability to be able to help others in need. My thoughts are to prepare myself and pray my neighbors prepare too. So that way if arms are reached out to me to help I can, and if I need to reach out hopefully they have done the same.

Wish you and your city well.

Not to get all churchy on here or anything, but the LDS church (mormons) which I happen to belong to has been practicing and teaching Emergency Preparedness for decades and they have a lot of good material and resources available, some of which is located on their main website.

Another thing that I have always found awesome that the LDS church does on a local level is organize an emergency plan based on meeting time boundaries in neighborhoods and cities, and they include all houses in those boundaries LDS occupied or not. And every boundary has an emergency preparedness expert in it. With it's millions of members all over the world you may just be on an LDS emergency map and not even know it. You could always check into your local LDS chapel (which you can locate on the site) and see what their plan is and how you could contribute etc. They also locally have events and activities which are to help with building food storage etc. It is always easier to pull together resources and prepare as a neighborhood and community.

I got to see first hand as a kid how the LDS local emergency plans work when our city in California flooded and the men (my father included) went door to door to those on the map lending assistance if needed.

I have totally created a DIY monster at my house. Just this morning she was looking through a Pottery Barn kids magazine and telling me how we could make a "high" bed with a ladder, and what wall it could go on. We even came up with an idea together to put a slide in the basement under the stairs. You would think that would mean I could get rid of the binki and diapers, but for some reason we are still working on that. LOL! I love decorating and DIYing with her when she is into it, but when she is not I just rather wait until after bed time. Especially when it comes to heavy cutting or painting. Things that are not safe for little ones.
the Bird and the Berry

If you cut shelves with a mitered edge you would be able to hang them flush and level to the wall. Hope that makes sense. Also if there are other apartments with the same kitchen layout, maybe get to know your neighbors and find out what some of their solutions are. Looks like a fun place! I would keep the wallpaper, but that is just me.

It feels and looks like a market! How fun is that.

Where did they get this sink? I have been looking for this exact one to replace the exact same sink in their before picture.

We had small kitchen in a condo once that we renovated. We added pull out drawers in all the cabinets and that made a HUGE space and storage difference. Kitchens function so much better when everything has a place.

Your kitchen looks so much like my Brothers kitchen. They painted the walls and have just added a backsplash. The other thing they did that made a huge impact was add beautiful lights to their dining area and kitchen. Here is a picture of what they did.

My husband and I had the same exact problem with closet-doors while renovating our condo. In-fact it was the last project left and needed to get them done quickly because we were going to sell our condo. We had looked into so many different options, but the cheapest thing we found was to make our own. They turned out great and cost us very little. Here are some pictures of the closet-doors before we painted them.

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If you need more help or have any questions about how we made these closet doors feel free to contact me through my Blog. Good Luck!