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I am so excited to share this post! It's been a long time and a lot of long weekends in the making. I started our cabin bathroom remodel at the end of July last summer. Our cabin is a busy place, and we needed our small bathroom to stand up to all the traffic. More than anything it needed to be efficient and functional, but also look the best! Let's take a look back at where it started... READ MORE
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Basement Remodel : Week 6

Basement Remodel : Week 6

Hey Guys! Sorry, I've been a little MIA lately. We were on a family vacay and I was very much phoning it in for the last few weeks. I haven't been a good poster, or comment responder, or blogger in general - but don't worry, those days are over. Alright, ...
Inspiration : The Dream Cabin

Inspiration : The Dream Cabin

+++ sources +++ image 1 & 2 via my scandinavian home Hey-O! I've been kind of obsessing over dream cabins on pinterst lately. Seriously, it is my favorite board out of all the boards. We have high hopes of someday saving enough cashola to buy ourselves a private rustic getaway ...
Basement Remodel : Week 2 | Deuce Cities Henhouse

Basement Remodel : Week 5

So much has happened over the last week and a half! It's really exciting to see it all come together. We've got the entire basement framed out now. As of Friday the basement is now wired for flaming hot electricity, and sheetrock is starting this week. It's almost done! After ...
CSA Recipe : Kohlrabi & Broccoli Fritters

CSA Recipe : Kohlrabi & Broccoli Fritters

Pals. It's CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) season again - and it couldn't come soon enough. With the basement project overwhelming our house we have not been good about making meals - at all. I really do like cooking, I just get in these ruts sometimes, and at the end of ...
My June Garden

My June Garden

huchera It's been an up and down sort of gardening season. What I thought was going to be a piece-of-cake established garden has been anything but. Things have been dying this year, specifically the Japanese maple, but I also lost phlox, clematis, coneflower, and a few iris. I've been replacing ...
Basement Remodel : Week 3.5

Basement Remodel : Week 3.5

Budz! Things are really happening over here at la casa Allen. The basement is feeling more and more realized every day, and I can't wait to see the finished results. I seriously dream about it every night, I am beyond excited. Lots has been happening over the last week and ...
Wallpaper Dresser Drawers

Peekaboo Pattern featuring JuJu Wallpaper

Bros. I'm excited about this one. A few months ago Rejuvenation reached out to me asking if I might be interested in doing a project featuring Portland's own JuJu wallpaper (one of their most recent collabos). After perusing (and drooling over) the line of super cute and likable wallpapers I ...
Sad Times For My Yard :(

Sad Times For My Yard :(

My yard is having hard timez this year, and it makes me so sad. I mentioned a few weeks ago that my Bloodgood Japanese Maple was not doing well. It's gotten much worse since then. I took an effected branch to the horticulturist at my local garden center, and they ...

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Hi! I’m Alison Allen

I started Deuce Cities Henhouse in 2009 – a blog about fixing up and restoring my 110-year-old Minneapolis home and updating our worn out and out, dated Wisconsin cabin. My family and I (my husband and two boys) moved into our current home nearly ten years ago, and since then I’ve been chronicling my journey of owning, renovating, decorating and DIY-ing our home.
 
I’m passionate about empowering women to take on projects that they might have normally not had the confidence to do, incorporating modern design and aesthetic into my home, thoughtful design solutions, and landscaping. I’ve done it all, from easy do-it-yourself home improvement projects to full on renovations and remodels.