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…

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Organizing 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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Bathroom 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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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…

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“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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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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$1 DIY Cork Wine Charm Set

If you love wine and DIY projects, this is literally the perfect project for you.  This is very easy and I would say for all ages but it involves using a knife.  So as long as you can be trusted with a sharp object, you can handle this project! 🙂 For this project you will…

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Inaugural Tent Sale

First, off we just want to say THANK YOU to everyone who came out to our inaugural tent sale yesterday.  We saw, met and had the opportunity to chat with so many awesome people throughout the day, it was truly wonderful! We saw old friends and new, neighbors and fans, out-of-town guests and even some…

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First Ever Tent Sale!

Yes you heard it correctly, we’re having our first ever tent sale and it is going to be held this Saturday, June 8 2013 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. in Amherst, NY. We will be selling items listed in our store as well as many new items that are making their debut!  If you like the…

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Mother’s Day Specialties

It’s always tough to find that perfect present for mother’s day, so this year I decided to make all the mother’s in my life their presents.  It seemed to be the right thing to do to give them all gifts made with an extra sprinkle of love. 🙂 I decided to make the mothers my…

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Re-Treeing Western New York

If you live near Buffalo, NY you know that the 2006 “October Storm” hit the area fast and hard with heaps of snow.  No one was ready for all the snow or the lasting impact it would have on the area.  After the snow melted and the community was able to go outside to see…

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Solving the Plastic Bag Dilemma

Do you have a wadded up cluster of plastic bags from grocery and clothing stores that look like a mess in your house or apartment? haus2home is not a place to judge, so I will be the first to say that I do. Well, at least I did until this past weekend when I decided…

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