Sometimes you see a coooool light fixture and then you come to find out it’s hardwired and the space you envisioned it for does not have an electric box for a hardwired installation. Bummer, right? That happens to me a lot, and with the bits of electrical light fixture knowledge I have acquired over the last few years I now have an easy solution I’d like to share with ya. READ MORE
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Dudes! My front porch has been kind of magical lately. I should say, it's always been magical, but now it's really magical. If you've followed along, you know that I have always struggled when it comes to designing this space. The biggest challenge of course is the small size, it's a front porch, so it's tiny. It comes off about seven feet from the front of the house and is about 20 feet long, READ MORE
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Hey Guys! Here is a quick post that I wanted to share regarding this bentwood lamp from Target. The table lamps are on clearance right now for $30 bucks, and they are super easy to transform into sconces - in case you be needing a bentwood sconce. I just grabbed my jigsaw and chopped the bottom right off! After chopping the base off the lamps, I used a countersink drill bit to make a flush READ MORE
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Hello! How's it going? It's been pretty alright around here. Spring is really in the air (although there is a cool down coming this week). We've been spending our weekends in the porch, and it has felt great, like wonderfully insanely great. I've got lots of little seedlings growing indoors, living things are popping up out of the ground, and just today the ice went out on a lot of the local READ MORE
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Ha, if you thought this post was about Minneapolis' very own 90's-indie-rock band, The Hidden Chord, I really got you fooled. Props to those who got the very obscure reference, to the majority of you who have no idea what I am talking about, I sincerely apologize. This post is actually about hiding unsightly cords and cables. Okay, okay, so I'm not reinventing the wheel or anything, you guys READ MORE
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