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Deuce Cities Henhouse

Friends, budz, guys, dudes, dudettes! I'm sharing a post today about the new year, my plans for it, and how I'm going to crush my 2020 goals. I'm also re-capping on all the cool stuff that got done in 2019. I'm so excited for the new year, I feel like this year it's really a fresh beginning for me. Welp, here goes nothing... READ MORE
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Peened Up Jam

Peeñed Up Jam

Hey Guys! My favorite thing about fall is very intensive meat and cheese boards, ya know what I am saying? Very delicious and fatty meats hanging out with lots of stinky cheeses, and a suitable amount of beer to wash it all down. My usual platters consist of tons of ...
Bedroom Plan

Bedroom Plan

Hey Guys, happy Friday! I meant to get a few posts out this week but we've been doing some intensive potty training and life has crazy been busy to say the least. Plus the lady friends and I had a girls night in the middle of the week - it ...
Bedroom Furniture Arranging

Slowly Figuring it Out

Heya! Welcome to the post wherein I blabber about minute details of my bedroom for a very long period of time. Ready? Here goes. I dunno about you, but when I put together spaces in my home, everything is extremely thought out. I find that it really helps to have ...
Bedroom Floor Plans

Bedroom Floor Plans

Whut Up? I bet you guys really want to know about the floor plan of my bedroom, right? Well for those of you who care, you might find it a little interesting as it has a bit of history and some tricky design obstacles. It dawned on me after reading ...
Fiddle Leaf Fig Pruning

Pruning your Fiddle Leaf Fig

Friends! Just wanted to give you a little fiddle leaf fig (aka ficus lyrata) update. Both my fiddle leaf figs (1 and 2) have grown tons this summer, it’s is really exciting watching new leafs appear all the time. One of my figs (the younger one) really began growing rapidly ...
Amped

Amped

Hey Guys! Just wanted to pop in and say that I am really feeling reinvigorated and positive about blogging, and projects, and life, and all that stuff. I always tone down the frequency of interior projects over the summer months for a few really good reasons. I don’t want to ...
Tutrorial : Wallpaper an Accent Wall

Wallpapering 101

Guys! Today I am going to teach you how to install wallpaper on an accent wall. This is a job that is fairly easy, a tiny bit stressful, and 100 percent totally worth it. This my friends, is the third time I have ever wallpapered, so I pretty much consider ...
10 Modern White Ceiling Fans

Thinking About : Big Box Store Ceiling Fans

Friends! There is something that you may not know about me... I love sleeping with all of the fans on! Dudes, I am not even kidding around here, this is serious business! Not only do we have two ceiling fans in our master bedroom, but we also have an oscillating ...

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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.