Do you have a room in your house that needs to be functional but you are also longing for it to be smashingly beautiful? This is exactly the project I tackled this holiday season. And, thanks to the Salvation Army and Valu Home Centers, I was able to make this idea a reality. I decided…
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Our Holiday Home: The Sanborn Mill
haus2home will be selling our goods out of the newly reopened Sanborn Mill for the holidays! Its been my favorite store since I was 15-years-old, so Im feeling very blessed to be a vendor here for the holiday season: its my hometown and my passion coming together. Stop on by and check out what we…
Read MoreOrganizing Your Entryway
I teamed up with Valu Home Centers again and provided them this post for their new blog! Check it out – its another awesome resource for DIY love. September means everyone is back-to-school! Back-to-school comes with a lot of shoes, coats, bags, umbrellas and who knows what else strewn about in your entryway and house. …
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Our New Bathroom – The Final Reveal
I can’t believe I’m actually saying these words, but our bathroom is FINISHED! If you have been following our bathroom re-do you know a lot of love, time and TLC has gone into this project. A lot is an understatement, actually. If you aren’t updated on this journey, take a look at our previous posts…
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Guest Bedroom Make Over: On a Budget and Shopping Local
Have you ever looked at a room in your home and thought, “I’d love to give this room a facelift but I just don’t have the budget!” Well think again. In this post, I’m going to take you on a DIY journey re-doing a guest bedroom for under $75! From the headboard to lamps, I’ve…
Read MoreHow to Install Shower/Floor Hardie Board
If you have been following our bathroom renovation, you know that this has been no joke. It was a total gut job! So, in this post, I’m going to break things down a bit and talk about how to actually start putting things back together and do it yourself. Specifically speaking – shower walls and…
Read MoreBathroom Renovation: Update 2
I was afraid the next part of the renovation would coincide with the lyrics from the new Pompeii song, “And the walls came tumblin’ down…” Luckily that wasn’t the case. Since our last post when we gutted the place, we have been busy piecing things back together. First, we had some wood to fix and…
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Bathroom Renovation: Update
It’s been a month of showering in our basement bathroom. Although I’ve become very acquainted with that bathroom over the past 30 days, I’m ready to have our main bathroom back in the mix! Last time we updated you on our bathroom progress, we were in the dreamy idea phase. You know, the time when…
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California Dreamin’
So I recently went to California on business, but I couldn’t help but stop to take photos…everywhere! It was such a beautiful place and there was so much beautiful decor, I just HAD to share it with all of you. So without further adieu, here’s the best of what I saw in California. Now I’m…
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Laundry Room Re-do
1950’s homes usually all have the similar basement laundry situation. Ugly pipes, a cold floor and a rusty smelly old sink. We wanted to soften ours up and make for a nicer, cleaner “laundry room” experience. So without further introduction, here is the progression of how we re-did our laundry room for a only couple…
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My New Office
“Communicator by day. Upcycler by night.” The phrase I use in my bio couldn’t be any more true, that’s my life in a nut-shell (minus my awesome husband, family, friends, and of course dog) for the year of 2013. It’s been a very exciting 1st year of launching haus2home, and all the meanwhile, I’ve been…
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Preparing for a New Bathroom
Picture this: Our home is a 1950’s build and most of the bathroom is ORIGINAL (or slightly updated) to the home. That means, Pepto Bismol colored shower tile, tile that goes practically from the floor to the ceiling , really beat up fixtures and furniture, and to top it off 2 or three layers of …
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Creating Storage in Unexpected Places
While doing our basement renovation, we realized we wanted to make the best use out of the entire space. Our basement is going to be used in many different ways in the years to come; a laundry room, a gym, a craft room, a stockpile, an entertainment space, a playroom (someday), oh and a 3-piece…
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Decorating for Fall: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Sorry Andy Williams, you are mistaken. Fall is seriously the “most wonderful time of the year!” Lets break it down. The weather is beautiful, the landscape looks more and more georgeous each day and the food is to die for. Pumpkin and apple flavored everything…it is heaven! We did a little decorating for the season…
Read More“Show How” Event
We are SO excited to announce our next event! We have been invited by Communify Buffalo to be a part of their “Show How” event on August 24. The event will take place at Buffalo’s 464 Gallery on 464 Amherst Street from 6-9 p.m. with presentations beginning at 6:30 p.m. What is the Show How…
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DIY haus numbers
If you read our landscaping post, you know that we’re all about finishing the outside of our home right now. Now the landscaping is complete, we have shimmied over a couple of feet to the front door area. The house number and mailbox we currently have are probably original to the house. Considering the house…
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Our Home Lanscaping Adventure
We bought our first home in July of 2011 and as much as we absolutely LOVED the inside of the house, we knew the landscaping had to go. I mean, just look at it! The bushes were practically swallowing the house. (Spring and winter photos for your viewing pleasure.) Landscaping isn’t the easiest thing in…
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The BEST Pinterest Wedding of 2013
So if you’re on Pinterest, you know it’s the epicenter for brides in wedding planning mode. It’s really not even fair for them actually. There are literally thousands of fantastic ideas and naturally when you have an average of a year or so to plan a wedding, you want to do EVERYTHING. From the decoration…
Read MoreDIY Keepsake Ornament
Ever want to give something a little extra special for a gift? Something personalized that they can keep forever to remember a special event like a birthday, shower, wedding, anniversary? In this blog post I will teach you how to make a DIY Keepsake Ornament that has proven itself to please! This is an EASY…
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May & June/// Done and Sold!
Today is the first day of July…WOWZERS! We have had a lot of fun the past two months and can’t believe how fast the time has flown. Things sure are picking up around here at haus2home and we decided to give you a review of some of the items that have sold lately in picture…
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