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love your use of the stairs for storage. we live in about 900sq/ft & did something similar for our wine storage & we get a kick out of how others get a kick out of it!

wow! my hubs & i do the same thing! that's how my kitchen & living room floors got painted. i put hardwood down in the bedroom on another trip he went home. he says he's scared to see what the next flooring project will be the next time he leaves!

8 years ago i did the same thing in my kitchen. the previous owners had installed carpet in the entire house, including the combined kitchen/dining room. and it was the low low pile tight weave carpet...in green....gingham! ugh! i just looked at it one day, saw a loose corner & started pulling. in 15 min my friend & i had the entire thing pulled up - it had been put down with glue. i immediately used some porch paint & some sample paints to create A Design I Could Live With. that floor went through 2 more interations until we finally remodeled the space 2 years ago. i never looked back and, in some ways, still love the old painted floors the best!
sometimes getting rid of the thing you hate helps you figure out what you love!

i used the exact same board for my calendar display just like photos 3 & 4. i spray painted mine red to give it some punch. word to the wise though, if you do decide to paint them, it will take multiple coats & sandings to get them to look smooth. i didn't stop to think about how absorbent chipboard is. it looks fine now, but i wasn't prepared for that part. i love the execpected look when using them as frames for photos though.

the smartest thing we ever did in our Kitchen Reno was a complete accident! we tore out all the cabinets for a complete redo with IKEA. here is the thing about IKEA: those vignettes that you see in the store? they didn't seem so big in the store (because of all that open space) but when you get home, it can be a different story. like so many people i know, i love their big, spacious islands & knew i wanted that too. so when we tore out our old cabs, we rearranged all of them in our space just like the new IKEA kitchen was shaping up to be (we'd not finalized or purchased anything yet). an entire wall of old cabs that was now going to be floor-to-ceiling windows, got re purposed as our makeshift island (complete with OSB top & faux cardboard sink). turns out that 48" wide island in the store was going to impede flow in my kitchen. so what looked okay on paper, turned out to be a bad idea in reality. but this "dry run" helped us reconfigure some cabs & resize the island to something just as functional but more appropriate! we lived with this for about 3 months & it saved us so much time & effort. 2 years later, i have NO complaints about my kitchen layout & even have 2 cabs that have nothing in them after pairing down some stuff as well!

i bought a set of bar keepers rags from Target on the advice of another blog. i use those for cleaning instead of paper towels & LOVE them!

i am on day 16 of a complete texting fast for Jan! it was somewhat hard at first but i absolutely love being phone free! the most amazing realization was not how much i texted but how much i checked my phone to see if i got a text. that became such a mindless habit & now that i'm not texting for the entire month of Jan i've become so aware of how annoying my own behavior was just as much as those around me. i did, as tarabelllucci mentioned, email friends & relatives in advance so they would know to call me. i also blogged it for anyone else that i missed:
if you can, try it for just a week & learn how liberating it is to NOT be tied down to the phone!

Chez Larsson has a 365 from 2010 as well as 2012 that is a great inspiration as well.

the guys in my group love Moleskin notebooks. you could personalize each with their name, a funny quote, or cartoon character that best represents them. just print whatever it is you plan to stick on their out onto color shelf liner then cut them out. if you have one of those fancy machines (like a silhouette) that does it for you all the better!

luv the rustic-modern feel this room has! well done!